A word on the Wagga and gratuitous cat photo

For those who may not know - a Wagga (pron. wogga) is
a traditional kind of Australian quilt made from whatever could be found, scraps of clothing or blankets, tailors samples, flour bags etc. Simple, rustic, functional..... you get the idea. Anyhow, a couple of months ago at the Waverley Patchworkers meeting, the club had been given a lot of wool/alpaca samples which were being handed out to anyone who wanted to make something from them. I've never been one to pass up free fabric. It was beautiful quality fabric but a bugger to sew. All soft and wiggly. Those who know me will be aware that I'm just a wee bit obssesive, compulsive, neat, precise, careful. I have trouble being messy. It took me years to even create something that wasn't symetrical. So as waggas go this is as rustic as I get! Not quite finished....still have to finish the binding.

This is Charlie. He thinks he's human and he sits in my lap when I'm at the sewing machine or the computer.

Dipping my toe into cyberspace

Welcome to my blog. Well, the self confessed luddite has gone over to the dark side :] I'd never even heard of blogs 2 months ago and now here I am dipping my own little toe into cyberspace.
Over the past few years my quilt making and other creative activities have been put on the back burner while I dealt with a few life altering events - divorce (and resultant poverty!), relationship breakup, death, chronic illness/pain. I feel a bit like I'm emerging from a long dark creative black hole. I've got ideas for quilts buzzing round in my head. Lots of ideas....and I haven't felt like that in a long time.

This is a quilt I made a few months ago after being inspired by Louisa L. Smith's book Strips 'n Curves. I don't usually make quilts so similar to something I've seen. I almost feel like apologising that it's not my own original design idea.