tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22996017937782642162024-03-13T03:03:16.948-07:00flossyblossyBrioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-33371857624723227642013-02-07T04:31:00.000-08:002013-02-07T06:56:16.715-08:00I haven't gone mad. I KNOW Christmas is over!<br />
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Over the 2 1/2 years since i made this i have had a ton of requests for a pattern for this block. I can't believe how popular it is. It's had over 2200 views on Flickr and appears to have been pinned on Pinterest (i WILL join that one of these days!!) a ton of times too.<br />
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Writing some instructions has been languishing on my to-do list and has never made it to the top. I finally got a rocket up my bum after receiving a lovely e-mail from Susan in Oklahoma. Her e-mail brightened my day so much that i really wanted to finally get some instructions done.<br />
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There are instructions for how to make this 10" blocks, and i have added fabric calculations for those of you who might want to make a quilt. The links to download the PDFs for the pattern and the templates are on my Patterns/Tutorials tab at the top of the page.<br />
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<br />Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.com86tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-37835519532838845782013-01-29T08:06:00.000-08:002013-02-07T06:58:07.133-08:00Peeking my head out to wish you all a belated Happy New Year!I can't believe i haven't blogged since last June. <br />
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Well, i can actually. First and foremost as I'm a bit crap keeping up with blogging, but more than anything since the Fat Quarterly retreat last June it's big one massive roller coaster of busyness. You know, the kind of busyness where every waking moment is jammed packed to the brim?<br />
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We've been in 2013 for nearly a month now but the strangest thing is that I've only felt like it's a new year for about a week. How does that work? I guess I'm a bit slow on the uptake. I wanted to do a round up of this years makes but as there is still a ton of (the most exciting stuff) i can't show you. This will have to do for now....<br />
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I am hoping to be a bit less crap in 2013. I have seriously missed keeping up to date with what everyone has been up to and, I've missed you folks.<br />
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A belated Happy New Year to you all and I'll be back soon. I hope :-)<br />
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Today my cheeks still hurt from smiling, my voice is hoarse from laughing and I'm feeling a bit teary at the prospect of having to get back to 'real life'.<br />
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I will keep it short and sweet as how the hell do you sum up something THAT amazing in a few paragraphs? I can't really think coherently today, but i did want to stop by and say Thank you!<br />
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It was amazing to have all of the <a href="http://www.fatquarterly.com/" target="_blank">FQ crew</a> in one place at the same time. Thank you <a href="http://www.quiltdad.com/" target="_blank">John</a>, <a href="http://www.imagingermonkey.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Katy</a>, Tacha and Lynne for all your fabulousness. I love you all - you are THE BEST!!!!<br />
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Thank you to <a href="http://www.blu-shed.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lu</a> and <a href="http://simplysolids.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mandy</a> for mucking in and helping us lug stuff between floors to make sure we had everything we needed in the right place at the right time. <br />
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Thanks to <a href="http://mishmashmamapo.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Terri</a> for giving me the best quote ever that makes me howl with laughter every time it pops into my head: "Mexican? I don't even like guacamole".<br />
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Thanks to Tom Starkey at <a href="http://pfaff.com/" target="_blank">Pfaff</a> for loaning us 20 sewing machines, and taking time out of his Bank Holiday weekend to bring and collect them. Thanks also to our other <a href="http://www.fatquarterly.com/retreat/sponsors" target="_blank">sponsors</a> for providing us with some great stuff for the goodie bags, and thanks to my hubby <a href="http://www.enfurnoh.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Curly Boy</a> for spending a whole day filling them!!<br />
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Finally, HUGE thanks goes to all you lovely folks who came to the retreat to hang out with us and make it the best weekend ever. You are a lovely, funny and warm hearted bunch who showed that you wanted it to be as successful as we did, so put your hearts and souls into making it the best weekend ever. Thank you!!<br />
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I am sad that i won't get to see you all today but even more excited that I'll get to see you all next year. Roll on 2013!!!<br />
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I’m a little late to the link party but for those of you that
don’t know me, I’m Brioni. I’m one of
the founding members of Fat Quarterly. I live in Leeds with my curly haired American husband, the most
adorable little 2 ½ year boy old ever, and 2 kitties.</div>
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Just another couple of days running around like a blue-arsed
fly* and then i get a whole weekend pfaffing around with bits of fabric at the
Fat Quarterly Retreat. Haha, ‘Pfaff’
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Katy, Lynne and I have been busy familiarising myself with our
Pfaff machines so that should disaster strike we can hopefully sort it. I have faith in myself given that i un-jam
the work printer on a regular basis and became the queen of un-jamming the
automatic hand towel dispensers at Spring Quilt Market in KC.</div>
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Curly Boy is currently busy stuffing goodie bags. There is a
lot of stuff. I was tempted to spread
it all out on the floor and roll around on it. I didn’t, you’ll be please to
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I really can’t wait to meet you all and I can’t wait to spend
some more time with my Fat Quarterly buddies Tacha, Katy, Lynne and John. This
will be the first time that all 5 of us have been in one place at one time so i
can’t wait. Eeeeek!</div>
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*For those of you who were wondering.... A Bluebottle is the
proper name for blue-arsed fly. They're
the large, noisy busy looking flies similar to a worker rushed off their feet,
hence the phrase “I'm running around like a blue arsed fly!!</div>Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-45242379811886543312012-02-10T23:25:00.000-08:002012-02-11T04:12:52.271-08:00It's been COLD where we are.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I longed for snow so i could take little J out. Last year when it snowed bucket loads he wasn't with us and was barely walking so i knew it would be a pretty exciting first for all of us. We didn't get a ton of snow and it didn't last very long but thankfully it fell over a weekend when Curly Boy was home and there was enough to make a snowman. Little J helped by patting handfuls of snow onto him and had a whale of time.<br />
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On our walk back home there were some pretty decent puddles so Little J had a good splash around. Pity you can't also hear the giggles!<br />
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Sewing has been going pretty well but most of it is FQ related or secret projects so i can't show you anything yet, but i can show you this.<br />
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This is in Issue 8 of Fat Quarterly available <a href="http://www.fatquarterly.com/issues/issue-8">here</a>.
I used in total about 18 yards of scraps, strings and fabrics that i wanted out of my stash. Can you believe i didn't use it all?Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-14801835036489907502011-12-13T13:40:00.000-08:002011-12-13T13:54:42.390-08:00Bbbrrrr....<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHWo310bI9CXZcoetmx3JCyfWJu56fvgvfA7J6fmdb7kdAkW-yJOjj7hyphenhyphenuBu-xzfSoBa2576Mg_3dKnkiNlgP4GvgkiGWLcjfoHEdOq_u5r3qMbioxlzDU_6pQ2ijHp24oUFT83JbDa7Y/s1600/005.JPG"><img style="width: 400px; height: 300px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5685732230422481778" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHWo310bI9CXZcoetmx3JCyfWJu56fvgvfA7J6fmdb7kdAkW-yJOjj7hyphenhyphenuBu-xzfSoBa2576Mg_3dKnkiNlgP4GvgkiGWLcjfoHEdOq_u5r3qMbioxlzDU_6pQ2ijHp24oUFT83JbDa7Y/s400/005.JPG" /></a></div><div><br />You can tell that it is now winter as the kitties are finding the strangest places to curl up and have a nap. Pile of sweaters, on the floor wedged under radiators, stretched out along the landing exactly where the hot water pipes run under the floorboards, a pile of strings on the sofa.</div><div> </div><div>I guess i finally have to accept that it's just not summer anymore *sigh*.<br /></div>Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-90636848160911745772011-11-14T13:51:00.001-08:002011-11-14T14:06:13.089-08:00FQ - Issue 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It would seem that there has been no sewing at all going on since the little man came. Granted it has been a bit hit and miss but there has been some lil FQ projects going on!
The pattern for this Crossroads and Roundabouts quilt is available in Issue 7 of Fat Quarterly out on 15th November <a href="http://www.fatquarterly.com/issues/issue-7">here</a>. As usual it's chocka block with fabulous patterns so make sure you bag your copy!!!!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-8124336892813592872011-11-09T05:12:00.000-08:002011-11-09T05:16:30.006-08:00What a year!!!<div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2LoPbicKrDLs39ZmqZxj9ms1fL0FbzYJ1_U_wrlHHzg19LO9XDYHFg0QLu3M2hirw7hINr_Mh57UCpqcwUoYJ5RBeTt25vhzrWzAs_ImtniSJF9alWzjcH4i6yub1idf-iCoa6oAOsQ/s1600/001.JPG"><img style="width: 161px; height: 400px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672966257028697186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2LoPbicKrDLs39ZmqZxj9ms1fL0FbzYJ1_U_wrlHHzg19LO9XDYHFg0QLu3M2hirw7hINr_Mh57UCpqcwUoYJ5RBeTt25vhzrWzAs_ImtniSJF9alWzjcH4i6yub1idf-iCoa6oAOsQ/s400/001.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br />The bad stuff:<br /><br />2 bad bouts of teething, 4 colds, a febrile convulsion, 2 chest infections, conjunctivitis and a broken ankle<br /><br />....and that's just the little man.<br /><br />For us two there has been Curly Boy losing his job for the 2nd time this year, a burglary, my Mum being pretty poorly and been in hospital for a week or 2, 2 bouts of gastroenteritis, flu, chest/sinus infection and 5 colds<br /><br />But the wonderful news is that....<br /><br />The little man has now settled beautifully, has had a ton of fun, met some lovely new people and found some little friends, has grown 2 1/2 inches and gained a kilo, had his 2nd birthday and has finally started saying a few words.<br /><br />Best of all, we have now got to know and love the loveliest little boy ever. He's bright, lively, mischievous, funny, handsome, sweet and affectionate.<br />We love you little man!</div>Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-53248334072984287712011-02-27T09:23:00.000-08:002011-03-09T04:05:48.703-08:00How time flies!There has been a ton of stuff going on that i couldn't or didn't want to talk about, and that as that was all taking up just about every waking thought then there didn't seem to be anything left to tell. I can and want to share some of it now, and wanted to tell you about our exciting news.<br /><br />We are finally going to be parents! Yes, us!!! :-)<br /><br />We were approved to adopt in September last year (after a gruelling 6 months of weekly 2 to 3 hour visits from the Social Worker!) and just before Christmas we were matched with a little boy who is now just 18 months old. The week before last it the match was finally approved by the Matching Panel and last week finally signed of by the Head of Children's services. So it's finally all official now :-)<br /><br />Tomorrow we finally get to meet him and i just can't tell you how excited we are. Our road to parenthood has been one hell of an emotional roller coaster and we still have to pinch ourselves to remind ourselves that it really IS happening! Although there are plenty of reminders around the house....<br /><br />Our guest bedroom (which is no longer a guest bedroom!) that Curly Boy has done an amazing job with...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhjjr6tXsmM9RxCe2BOHmsEAyTbfC1oznJGm200Reo2I00C292Kpi-KmUjSIZGt8EyXb9wMsdmLnBkeqy7FmIIYA0r5faeNiC4_gbP48fUyUEAjqjS17GqKI7nqfxZcXfoSEpZnJNtKE/s1600/the+cat+%25282%2529.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582042585733489426" style="WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYhjjr6tXsmM9RxCe2BOHmsEAyTbfC1oznJGm200Reo2I00C292Kpi-KmUjSIZGt8EyXb9wMsdmLnBkeqy7FmIIYA0r5faeNiC4_gbP48fUyUEAjqjS17GqKI7nqfxZcXfoSEpZnJNtKE/s400/the+cat+%25282%2529.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtmxdlveX9VqGdpN6Ug_WKb0zhU_I-RE2xNBn1LWGz24X0P3RmLeqCFQtj5xuOzjV9FrlpNecq1G7a0MnUd6w6U3nPKOPHuSm381NquvxmVvuIm-s1ssFGP_Kfs73a4iqf_aUHhBoQfsU/s1600/011+%25282%2529.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582042575220645522" style="WIDTH: 400px; 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CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDA3jggbf48goeVieCm9xuwgDAV_L2xnZaLxy2czOkYFmpfL2mU_07DuhipRah2pjQatYvtpkD0WVsVRntPkF-_4LLLfZAeNjl1Hs4iRGkTZ0igLGeDjtAMQNPgcmNqyDGUHtGzeyTOM/s400/012+%25282%2529.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsL9Z4RrXgwo0zs4twOA85XinIgUbXdHX6enGRfm_at7wKidLlsmBAbAMiddijcHZrv5FN2JhGA0v0JVvphSLBQy6fDIILmNV_ZAWVDzFpsEOjzmvyygMC7zWV2fm33GExRvMZnDKrXc/s1600/013+%25282%2529.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582042585915943026" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmsL9Z4RrXgwo0zs4twOA85XinIgUbXdHX6enGRfm_at7wKidLlsmBAbAMiddijcHZrv5FN2JhGA0v0JVvphSLBQy6fDIILmNV_ZAWVDzFpsEOjzmvyygMC7zWV2fm33GExRvMZnDKrXc/s400/013+%25282%2529.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The Dr Suess quilt still hanging over the door waiting to be finished...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6tTRSqMZ0lLDwkNVTaDBWuhPNqgJWfcJ-FvzLXcxUNvqAyyrhPWj0Gj_UWTkL0Iu0tvziMrjzvd6Hb8PviG4riqJBKD_v2y0UFE1mXqrDjMhI9f4syO9pHBPoNRqusrbAVB0tNg0Qkuk/s1600/001.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582046428247879282" style="WIDTH: 226px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6tTRSqMZ0lLDwkNVTaDBWuhPNqgJWfcJ-FvzLXcxUNvqAyyrhPWj0Gj_UWTkL0Iu0tvziMrjzvd6Hb8PviG4riqJBKD_v2y0UFE1mXqrDjMhI9f4syO9pHBPoNRqusrbAVB0tNg0Qkuk/s400/001.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And last but most definitely not least, the beautiful things that dear friends have been making...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeMh80aKQ5wXTenMAFt0gwwySXN-UPoNjVBEBmUx6wpILeCsQS2hUXhQIFk0-lVDCOVXjDGuzGA-mXhPqMqFgtkRZ27YCn21ftM-QxtGdyqNhAWEKbvoIq2EP6FYooPvGGxVg9Gsg7K7s/s1600/008.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582046416395741154" style="WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeMh80aKQ5wXTenMAFt0gwwySXN-UPoNjVBEBmUx6wpILeCsQS2hUXhQIFk0-lVDCOVXjDGuzGA-mXhPqMqFgtkRZ27YCn21ftM-QxtGdyqNhAWEKbvoIq2EP6FYooPvGGxVg9Gsg7K7s/s400/008.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6kKmS2TwmYixsjo-A40HOki403akJWx0MzuSHfdvaPnpi1mI5QY2hoLwu9-obb0VkmgTOe1Lsk0fYr-puPqqX9FuvLmr1VuE7jjzfUqbgGVw_c9Wyix-F2BUZsmZeCDz0lQZU7Ol3HE/s1600/5488737655_f88b653919_b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582046414837600530" style="WIDTH: 394px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6kKmS2TwmYixsjo-A40HOki403akJWx0MzuSHfdvaPnpi1mI5QY2hoLwu9-obb0VkmgTOe1Lsk0fYr-puPqqX9FuvLmr1VuE7jjzfUqbgGVw_c9Wyix-F2BUZsmZeCDz0lQZU7Ol3HE/s400/5488737655_f88b653919_b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I think we are going to gibbering wrecks tomorrow - but in a good way of course. Wish us luck!!!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-28786319570461795002010-12-01T23:27:00.000-08:002010-12-01T23:28:42.638-08:00Thanks so much for your help!!Thank you all so much for your heart warming donations and participation in our first { Modern } Relief fundraiser in support of World Vision’s efforts to end hunger!<br /><br />We have now collected an amazing $5700.00!!<br /><br />Tonight at 12:00pm PST (12/1/10) we will officially close this raffle, however you can locate information regarding World Vision efforts and how you can continue to support their mission throughout the entire year through their website at <a href="http://www.worldvision.org/">http://www.worldvision.org/</a>.<br /><br />We will be announcing the winners and Grand Total of the Raffle within the next 2 weeks!<br /><br />Thanks again!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-82526932121552900572010-11-22T01:07:00.000-08:002010-11-22T01:09:37.008-08:00Modern Relief.<div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8urFvHOdVcoVd7Iy42bnWt3-CHbDWgDTLBZaW__kxbaYM7Q6_fUdcerCa4cTeYpKsLYXCNlU5C3fMklxMljBS5kF0p_L3xT1_Xfq7RZTCBoQ7Lw24SXdkV72V_3v7RpC_2TjOH5yaFrw/s1600/5164904456_8f7bab383d_o.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541014947552154434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8urFvHOdVcoVd7Iy42bnWt3-CHbDWgDTLBZaW__kxbaYM7Q6_fUdcerCa4cTeYpKsLYXCNlU5C3fMklxMljBS5kF0p_L3xT1_Xfq7RZTCBoQ7Lw24SXdkV72V_3v7RpC_2TjOH5yaFrw/s400/5164904456_8f7bab383d_o.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">{ Modern } Relief is a simple concept. We are Modern Quilters uniting through the holiday season by bringing the warmth of our quilts and the warmth of your hearts together for others in need. This season, 2010, we will be supporting World Vision. We hope YOU will join us in taking a stand against hunger by participating in our fundraising raffle. Please let me introduce to you <a href="http://www.worldvision.org/">World Vision</a>.<br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>World Vision is leading the effort to end hunger. </strong></span></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000000;">In the next seven seconds, another hungry child will die.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000000;">World Vision is on the front lines of the fight against hunger.</span><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000000;"> Today — and every day — we’ll distribute nearly 600 metric tons of emergency food aid</span><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000000;">, nourishing the hungry. We’ll give local farmers the seeds, tools, and training they need to grow their own food and feed their own communities. And we will plead the cause of the hungry</span><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000000;"> in halls of power all over the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#000000;">Please join us in creating a world without hunger — a world in which no child dies for want of nutritious food. This site offers in-depth information on hunger, its causes, and how it can be stopped. You can learn more about key hunger-related issues and share what you discover with friends and family. Use this <a href="http://www.worldvision.org/">link</a> to begin your journey.</span><br /></strong><br /><em>Please meet the members of this season’s event and view their donations that they have generously provided to this fundraiser raffle.<br /><br /></em>Heather from <a href="http://alamodefabric.blogspot.com/">{ House } of A La Mode<br /></a><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvBs1_dq-C7vgGkRNTKbkUc39mp1Mh55KrKG6o2cml0avVjU55soKVy5ehg7TQlQDU6LW4IaL82a_XpmfbmuGjwnxvNqCCbnXtyeN41-8XgfLVqdEelX4pdzItn8nwf7vN5RyycMS-Ijk/s1600/DSC_0152.JPG"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540994463321766034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 332px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvBs1_dq-C7vgGkRNTKbkUc39mp1Mh55KrKG6o2cml0avVjU55soKVy5ehg7TQlQDU6LW4IaL82a_XpmfbmuGjwnxvNqCCbnXtyeN41-8XgfLVqdEelX4pdzItn8nwf7vN5RyycMS-Ijk/s400/DSC_0152.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"></em></a></p>Amy from <a href="http://amyscreativeside.com/">Amy's Creative Side<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEsWO_9bLPswZbJvJgrP6a20VIlHY8SrnrCUVux3ejUUkADxOBnZhtWcKmqGkprExjeu1cJHCln1QzkuX-4SReY2rbvtRsiao0TAYT6gUqKdqRO7kCp5Kkm4SMxELMOnxN-WGuGbvOmQs/s1600/5186021241_c4dc4c0c2c.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540989968076557970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEsWO_9bLPswZbJvJgrP6a20VIlHY8SrnrCUVux3ejUUkADxOBnZhtWcKmqGkprExjeu1cJHCln1QzkuX-4SReY2rbvtRsiao0TAYT6gUqKdqRO7kCp5Kkm4SMxELMOnxN-WGuGbvOmQs/s400/5186021241_c4dc4c0c2c.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></em></a></p>Elizabeth from <a href="http://www.ohfransson.com/oh_fransson/">Oh, Fransson!<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_AVdnXumyuQHhppeCaee45mUoZMFy7r9-82DZGeXzSgcYbCEOANw4OyfLvbbL5f5PhvJ_eYXY1lHOHkbpECVFRWYe3KJ7RbKh8qmxoJosisqqEJWzWoWTqZAX5WHFyybdKakgdcnd4aw/s1600/Fenced+In+Quilt.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540997356847715330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 273px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_AVdnXumyuQHhppeCaee45mUoZMFy7r9-82DZGeXzSgcYbCEOANw4OyfLvbbL5f5PhvJ_eYXY1lHOHkbpECVFRWYe3KJ7RbKh8qmxoJosisqqEJWzWoWTqZAX5WHFyybdKakgdcnd4aw/s400/Fenced+In+Quilt.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></em></a></p>Nettie from <a href="http://aquiltisnice.blogspot.com/">a quilt is nice<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMov6Ewo6tnEmHjK9pjoBTpylU1pTvPo2cgEbmOcXaLN_tmX9kR_DXHMGwYhd35XGs4i2wq9djx1yDxWkh35EzA0NxXTypksUHH-sliAkbNWu-qhB33cn-Ch_jyRJAWLZoSYXkurFR_dI/s1600/5182276803_bfbe9a2b36.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541006394840868818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 399px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMov6Ewo6tnEmHjK9pjoBTpylU1pTvPo2cgEbmOcXaLN_tmX9kR_DXHMGwYhd35XGs4i2wq9djx1yDxWkh35EzA0NxXTypksUHH-sliAkbNWu-qhB33cn-Ch_jyRJAWLZoSYXkurFR_dI/s400/5182276803_bfbe9a2b36.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></em></a></p>Aneela from <a href="http://comfortstitching.typepad.co.uk/comfortstitching/">Comfortstitching<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6UVb7Af48xr5Kr14D9jp7168i96dXNfQewy-WTdMQUGZygnvV0RW8HxlSTkOw3J094juCNar9UxnNobxze0fu2TLdPyqSohsAN4lnIPMDWIYRnND09wI1ZkPjRyQ46zfNvFKdSLzp3A/s1600/4860690206_db6418bc18.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540989952139890658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6UVb7Af48xr5Kr14D9jp7168i96dXNfQewy-WTdMQUGZygnvV0RW8HxlSTkOw3J094juCNar9UxnNobxze0fu2TLdPyqSohsAN4lnIPMDWIYRnND09wI1ZkPjRyQ46zfNvFKdSLzp3A/s400/4860690206_db6418bc18.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></em></a></p>Brioni from <a href="http://flossyblossy.blogspot.com/">Flossyblossy</a></div><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540989948699474994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 340px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGJzILQIUKBWWBCa8Y4_maAEzT5Me-Z75eGOO2ozFR2nXcPPDi21fqnpZ6xJgys2TVcm29Yo0nmxoDkSHD0V8s68TcQOjnK6Z_JJqp5enf-plLSejkVb5IYsZR7_VrhyphenhyphenRT6YZL3QQZ_JE/s400/4162882370_21769f8700.jpg" border="0" /> <a href="http://flossyblossy.blogspot.com/"><p align="center"></a></p>John from <a href="http://www.quiltdad.com/">Quilt Dad<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJ2LDxY9ZINFDkK0ODFgiIHSVz-82j73zB5XoJ7WvshvxvgGex-ETJK88YjwerjRqKR4mnkku0o33nZqHINroqDFtvL_MxcHwNaFdMzJ_9_lEi7aNiYKZhJtbmdfnjIlwndf8IoG9TI4/s1600/5112796561_14d7240fa5.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540992104750659890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLJ2LDxY9ZINFDkK0ODFgiIHSVz-82j73zB5XoJ7WvshvxvgGex-ETJK88YjwerjRqKR4mnkku0o33nZqHINroqDFtvL_MxcHwNaFdMzJ_9_lEi7aNiYKZhJtbmdfnjIlwndf8IoG9TI4/s400/5112796561_14d7240fa5.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></em></a></p>Kate from <a href="http://www.oneflewover-oneflewover.com/">One Flew Over<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ5mhPiWUJVJp2QUwnUqd_a8_OxzBeNcyenkz9oPKutpr64GqGGXTbnSCzqZksFAoYT4X-a7X49vAKDsv7ITHuRKh4O6LJBG2XIv5i0FNwafUrBntFlBJDwYmwNjZLMbD9ziQpLxjt1Sg/s1600/5133361256_74e8d37ca5.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540992097327042834" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 354px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhswFx0wJJXp62SmzjBEn8k6XX2AIfRSup89p7NscuoRc4DkExBnVdmZLbdMUogEB2I3V1gwqA-SNn5mxDieZnjwWwGrGAJCuNx3lci0TG_TaX_LzANk03p7od-mZnuLHl5oeHom1SQw9M/s400/5184143631_086c603d2f.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></em></a></p>Julie from <a href="http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/">Jaybird Quilts</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZu-wqsX73k5LHdvGW44foM3XvOZLiMHHXnNaYFZS65L2H9nFa8LNKUIk_cOsK2BAiGxX0Tww5d6yuFSOcbMhjnN2gMFPK87injJTVdy7iANvWgV1Ci5iE2idcIwLYeHbw4wyBnYVaJoI/s1600/5187320987_9ecf57b93a.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540993498110819954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZu-wqsX73k5LHdvGW44foM3XvOZLiMHHXnNaYFZS65L2H9nFa8LNKUIk_cOsK2BAiGxX0Tww5d6yuFSOcbMhjnN2gMFPK87injJTVdy7iANvWgV1Ci5iE2idcIwLYeHbw4wyBnYVaJoI/s400/5187320987_9ecf57b93a.jpg" border="0" /></em></a>Jacquie from <a href="http://tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/">Tallgrass Prairie Studio<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBLOcXvVKOey7N9vK4aL767pLuaB8TfWNMzr03Xqebv_7GtDkK_QMJnq99BhX7AO4Vs5_vjRH4mZVfTnNrx2v5XGOefWgIPx_w0z9WNJt0i-YuNzQlQqilVhyd13mY2H64YL_qwzFxN78/s1600/creamsicle+whirlygiggle.jpg"><em><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540997356341348850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 275px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBLOcXvVKOey7N9vK4aL767pLuaB8TfWNMzr03Xqebv_7GtDkK_QMJnq99BhX7AO4Vs5_vjRH4mZVfTnNrx2v5XGOefWgIPx_w0z9WNJt0i-YuNzQlQqilVhyd13mY2H64YL_qwzFxN78/s400/creamsicle+whirlygiggle.jpg" border="0" /></em></a> Alissa from <a href="http://www.handmadebyalissa.com/">Handmade by Alissa<br /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-XyaUE31AkaZexw2FzOdxmvfsnwc25Wv-4J9kGvJEo_MWZt2UK6T5-5EcADBLE64v0ZtgWTbtIf3mv0W7ArUEqwYfXvB6bNLiDbv-ulSrGD16tjDRw8LyTxk03zww9oWVghwyAo328w/s1600/3652380450_4ef7ac71b9.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541090193566067746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-XyaUE31AkaZexw2FzOdxmvfsnwc25Wv-4J9kGvJEo_MWZt2UK6T5-5EcADBLE64v0ZtgWTbtIf3mv0W7ArUEqwYfXvB6bNLiDbv-ulSrGD16tjDRw8LyTxk03zww9oWVghwyAo328w/s400/3652380450_4ef7ac71b9.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The Guidelines: <p align="center"><br />- To enter this raffle please click on the PayPal button, this will bring you to the { Modern } Relief PayPal account.<br />- The cost to enter this Raffle is $10.00 per entry.<br />- Entries are unlimited, so please feel free to give till your heart’s content.<br />- Winners of the raffle will be chosen by a random generator on December 1st, 2010.<br />- Each { Modern } Relief Quilter participating in this event will post the entire list of winners for the donated quilts on their blogs during the second week of December and the grand total of our contributions to this cause.<br />- Additionally, they will also contact their personal winners at that time too.<br /><br />We THANK you!<br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"><br /><input type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" name="cmd"><br /><input type="hidden" value="UPCJK9SUXZUSC" name="hosted_button_id"><br /><input type="image" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit"><br /><img height="1" alt="" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" border="0" /><br /></form><br /></p></div>Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-61719981438157939712010-10-17T02:43:00.001-07:002010-10-18T13:46:52.217-07:00Wow - i wasn't expecting to be AWOL as long as it turned out to be.<br /><br />I have got so much to share so i think I'm just going keep everything short so that the post doesn't get so long that you fall asleep halfway through, and i can get up to date quickly!<br />This is what has been keeping me occupied.<br /><br />Fat Quarterly.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpkWvywiCPyfFXwBlXGMnd_ysQF7Hlat9gELi7LD0uCsifPgjQTVXcylFLsUtix9e6iSIKL-Dx3eLtxIoltoRyCvE7yAyhqB6Y7JpHmDRRR2VeZlUpn0ZZ7kav6GnNnimKIxZhv99prA/s1600/008.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529473131936791202" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtpkWvywiCPyfFXwBlXGMnd_ysQF7Hlat9gELi7LD0uCsifPgjQTVXcylFLsUtix9e6iSIKL-Dx3eLtxIoltoRyCvE7yAyhqB6Y7JpHmDRRR2VeZlUpn0ZZ7kav6GnNnimKIxZhv99prA/s400/008.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The tree skirt was made for the FQ Holiday Issue/All about Christmas Swap. Tree skirts aren't that common in the UK so i jumped at the chance of making one. I am pretty chuffed with it and it now resides with <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kendrassewing/">Kendra</a>, and thankfully she loves it.<br /><br />If you fancy making your own, want some inspiration for cute things to decorate your home for the Holidays, or wanting ideas for Christmas gifts, the Holiday Special Issue has gone on sale today and is available <a href="http://www.fatquarterly.com/p/buy_05.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Doll Quilt Swap 9.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vo1DnFDgZaEd2xFDXpLmNeAm_tAADk6-X32V44LRGVoKlNOIl9h08ghjyT0GA6xTRjBZ99PelwLXWTkG1axgelRsDan0QZf2dk00RwwwI2KTNpwBBvyOE3ECARdVuxaRUOHAHwHsO-g/s1600/DQS9+s+and+r.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528958909042286546" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 202px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vo1DnFDgZaEd2xFDXpLmNeAm_tAADk6-X32V44LRGVoKlNOIl9h08ghjyT0GA6xTRjBZ99PelwLXWTkG1axgelRsDan0QZf2dk00RwwwI2KTNpwBBvyOE3ECARdVuxaRUOHAHwHsO-g/s400/DQS9+s+and+r.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The first pic is the doll quilt i sent to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56001293@N00/">Cherri</a> and the second pic is what i received from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/upstatelisa/">Upstatelisa</a>. I LOVE it and squealed quite a lot when it arrived, and have spent many an hour stroking it. Thanks Lisa!<br /><br />Urban Home Goods Swap.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJC5R8hgi5oKpgIL_I2miyJWCslHj41KZ5_Nd6TjZfJR4Rf8hyphenhyphenMaF1zepsg_0rCLWeBIUrqWeFC0B_RMBwv5GixsidRzmtdJtKKHCrXRdFZPgZMqQ4Nvb33IlMr7T8hSZQD1yNYHFcsA8/s1600/UHG+s+and+r.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528958521312634930" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 202px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJC5R8hgi5oKpgIL_I2miyJWCslHj41KZ5_Nd6TjZfJR4Rf8hyphenhyphenMaF1zepsg_0rCLWeBIUrqWeFC0B_RMBwv5GixsidRzmtdJtKKHCrXRdFZPgZMqQ4Nvb33IlMr7T8hSZQD1yNYHFcsA8/s400/UHG+s+and+r.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Again, the first pic is what i sent to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ningiu/">Isa</a> and the second pic is what i received! My partner <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/75579312@N00/">Kellie</a> lives in New Zealand and made these wonderful things for me during the earthquakes. Thank you so much Kellie!<br /><br />Birthday Trip<br /><br />It was my birthday in early October and we spent 2 days in the most beautiful part of England, Northumberland. We spent Friday at my 1st favourite place in the world (Lindisfarne Castle) and Saturday at my 2nd favourite place in the world (Cragside).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdf4iZcyT66rUE0KLah4BvfoREeY908zI8T81Nj7hf2a5puoapO0_KVZxzDYjJaOMJuMg0fKddwGaDkpZKU_uwmNUDkeicguvlY8okKlIC2fcE4hKxmdyX0RpHFR7B_8JlHhrOv7RzNsY/s1600/northumberland+mosaic.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529470047895788962" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 202px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdf4iZcyT66rUE0KLah4BvfoREeY908zI8T81Nj7hf2a5puoapO0_KVZxzDYjJaOMJuMg0fKddwGaDkpZKU_uwmNUDkeicguvlY8okKlIC2fcE4hKxmdyX0RpHFR7B_8JlHhrOv7RzNsY/s400/northumberland+mosaic.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We stayed at an absolutely <a href="http://www.birdsongcottage.co.uk/accomm.html">beautiful B&B</a> and spent the evening with my oldest friend and her husband and their 7 month old Airedale terrier called Connie (the doggy in the picture), eating fish and chips straight out the box in front of the log fire. Doesn't get much better than that!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-34262805550860081082010-08-15T02:44:00.000-07:002010-08-15T02:56:48.217-07:00Another thank you...and a winner!!Thank you for all the lovely and generous comments. They made my heart sing. You all know how to make a girl feel loved and for that, i love you all back!!! <br />I really wish i had a pile of fabric for all of you.<br /><br />Anyhow, the random number generator has picked a winner...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSP87j5ccB0TiprNBXCPbFYbzVJ6pw_H5m5J0v2j-v86uug9rtcE9P0Gvg6blUfKyPRaDEfg-2ZCZHfMsRpiRNW6Yrzd058DDAWPT1BimJVBJ4Om0kbPEvKkiILH0sahpgjFtTWrO8_c/s1600/RNG.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505571773921991122" style="WIDTH: 369px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSP87j5ccB0TiprNBXCPbFYbzVJ6pw_H5m5J0v2j-v86uug9rtcE9P0Gvg6blUfKyPRaDEfg-2ZCZHfMsRpiRNW6Yrzd058DDAWPT1BimJVBJ4Om0kbPEvKkiILH0sahpgjFtTWrO8_c/s400/RNG.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />...and that winner is Reinojacheguei!!<br /><br />Thank you for taking the time to comment and I will e-mail you for your address so i can get the fabrics in the post to you!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-14580777636734036712010-08-06T02:19:00.000-07:002010-08-06T02:30:56.474-07:00Giveaway and Thank You!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8R1IFDsnk7nMrpE2g-P9RTe02Ga1DZJFzI05br21eXPY9WUGX0mmJR3gwhRhRNc6_xv3y2sCyFP4FgHFaeflR2tD7BjNx8Zl2-NpjQ6ec0SkZppuHJhKjleJJ713wxHe1eOuLYqXbnk/s1600/007.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho8R1IFDsnk7nMrpE2g-P9RTe02Ga1DZJFzI05br21eXPY9WUGX0mmJR3gwhRhRNc6_xv3y2sCyFP4FgHFaeflR2tD7BjNx8Zl2-NpjQ6ec0SkZppuHJhKjleJJ713wxHe1eOuLYqXbnk/s400/007.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502224513468887634" /></a><br />Fancy some fabric?<br /><br />My 1 year blogaversary (how do you spell that???) passed without affair as I’m not one who celebrates anniversaries in a big way.<br /><br />I started my blog and joined Flickr just over a year ago, and what a year! I’ve had a really rough few years and i think i can say that the last year has probably been the best year i have ever had (Well, except if I’d have won the lottery or something!).<br /><br />Being part of the online community has been the most amazing experience for me. Quilting (certainly in the UK) is a fairly solitary hobby and I think we now take the Internet for granted, but to inspire and be inspired by quilters all over the world is just the most amazing thing ever. I have met people how i never would have got the opportunity to meet otherwise, joined a ton of online quilting bees, co-founded Fat Quarterly, and the confidence i have gained from the wonderfully sweet and funny comments both here and on Flickr has been immense and made me realise that actually I’m not too bad at this quilting malarkey!<br /><br />So rather than celebrating an anniversary i would prefer to say Thank You, and what better way to do that than with fabric.<br />There’s nothing especially fancy in the pile, i just picked a few FQs from my <a href="http://theskepknittingandquiltingshop.blogspot.com/">local fabric shop</a>. There’s a bit of Anna Maria Horner, Alexander Henry, a bit of what i think might be Tanya Whelan, some other random fabrics that played nicely with them, and the bottom ones are long quarters of Tilda fabric.<br /><br />If you fancy this little pile then just leave me a lil note saying whatever you fancy by the end of the 14th August, and I’ll randomly pick a winner on Sunday 15th August.<br />If you fancy a 2nd entry, sign up to follow my blog or add it to your blog reader then leave me anther comment to tell me.<br />Those of you who have already left comments previously, you will automatically get an extra entry – as an extra thank you goes to you!!!!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-72129187985787737222010-07-30T13:24:00.000-07:002010-07-30T23:48:49.097-07:00My favourite quilts.<p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwgO3KzS3EU7rxY1NMzCBHkjXbwcYhNHUPdPXoXHpt_LXtXwayJC0_RQk43L3YQlosn-LDH-clhUOu1uvbuK1q28JHgw-o-4skwrzdNPvzjzRApOJ5-ntAPGHaU46qtMzSiKXjj4fhA_Y/s1600/final+mosaic.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499803241845371106" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwgO3KzS3EU7rxY1NMzCBHkjXbwcYhNHUPdPXoXHpt_LXtXwayJC0_RQk43L3YQlosn-LDH-clhUOu1uvbuK1q28JHgw-o-4skwrzdNPvzjzRApOJ5-ntAPGHaU46qtMzSiKXjj4fhA_Y/s400/final+mosaic.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">1. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/3958985879/in/set-72157617907828521/"><span style="font-size:78%;">My first quilt ever - re-bound</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 2. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/4297542152/in/set-72157617907828521/"><span style="font-size:78%;">My Cathedral window</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 3. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/3550993900/in/set-72157617907828521/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Grandmothers flower garden</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 4. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/3550993916/in/set-72157617907828521/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Triple Irish Chain with flowers 2</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 5. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/3958985845/in/set-72157617907828521/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Hand pieced hexagon pinwheel</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 6. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/4177152752/in/set-72157617907828521/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Orange and teal log cabin - done!</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 7. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/3792874474/in/set-72157617907828521/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Doll quilt so far...</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 8. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/3550993916/in/set-72157617907828521/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Triple Irish Chain with flowers 2</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 9. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/4754128365/in/set-72157624124148094/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Dresden cropped</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 10. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/4717740804/in/set-72157624124148094/"><span style="font-size:78%;">Josephs coat quilt top</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 11. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/4717739130/in/set-72157624124148094/"><span style="font-size:78%;">String X quilt top</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">, 12. </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/4801668178/in/set-72157624124148094/"><span style="font-size:78%;">PP flowers on Kona snow</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span></p><p align="left">There is all sorts of things I wanted to blog about but they all went out of the window when I got sidetracked by the release of Issue 2 of Fat Quarterly (go have a look, as in my humble opinion it’s a good one!) and a blog post I read a couple of weeks ago. I can’t remember for the life of me where i read it (I suspect it was a link, from another link, from another link) but it got me thinking.<br /><br />The lady said something along the lines of, her not understanding the current trend towards quick and easy quilts. It got me thinking a whole lot.<br /><br />Now I do understand that quick and easy is good for the times that you need to make a quilt as a gift and you need something that doesn’t take 3 years to make, or you need a utility quilt, but on the whole i would absolutely say that I’m with her all the way.<br /><br />In the 5 years ish since I started quilting I have made (or in the process of) around 45 quilts and I would say that they are pretty evenly spread between quick and easy, fairly easy but there was something slightly challenging about them, and difficult and time consuming. I’ve come to the conclusion probably it comes down to 2 things:<br /><br />Are a ‘process’ or a ‘product’ quilter. Why do you quilt? Do you quilt because you find something very satisfying about the process or is the process a means to an end – the end being a finished quilt? Also, how confident are you about your abilities?<br /><br />I already have more quilts that I know what to do with (and I’m sure that having them piled around the house must most definitely be fire hazard) and as I can’t stop making them, for me it is probably about the process. The maths, choosing the fabric, pressing it ready for cutting, cutting it into smaller pieces and then very carefully sewing the pieces back together. I guess for some the repetition would make them want to poke themselves in the eyes with a sharp stick but I love the repetition, the project being all consuming, and the meditative benefits. I am also pretty fortunate that i am not intimidated by very much (only curved seams!!!), I think because I am naive enough to think that i can actually pull just about anything off if I work hard enough at it.<br /><br />Much more importantly though, the quilts that are my absolute favourites (and the ones I would grab and save if my house was on fire!) are the ones that have taken hours in the planning, the ones that i have painstakingly hand stitched or have challenged me in some way. Those are the ‘special’ ones that will be treasured forever. </p>Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-41905805943266641992010-07-12T23:18:00.000-07:002010-07-12T23:37:50.921-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj0XaZ7DC0OD5FY0-UZrPdExPGjv1nelH6rR9tn-zKmhZHdGFz8p8SyAmo_wA2OhbYIKJD_aKzlXSwo-i-onmO203UrwB2hDIRsIgQVcds-YVwZaprODEj5XLsBQGFApOPh3nVqJ_hel4/s1600/black-death.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493274774832984146" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj0XaZ7DC0OD5FY0-UZrPdExPGjv1nelH6rR9tn-zKmhZHdGFz8p8SyAmo_wA2OhbYIKJD_aKzlXSwo-i-onmO203UrwB2hDIRsIgQVcds-YVwZaprODEj5XLsBQGFApOPh3nVqJ_hel4/s320/black-death.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div><div><br /><div>It feels pretty good to finally be back on my feet after not feeling very well for the last 3 weeks or so - culminating in the mother of all viruses last week. I’ve spent much of the last 7 days laid on the sofa either sleeping, or watching the Crime and Investigation channel (just in case you’re wondering, i am a frustrated forensic scientist not an axe murderer!!!).<br />I had 6 days completely sewing free. 6 days! So you can appreciate just how bad i felt if fabric pursuits held zero interest!<br /><br />Curly Boy has also had a bad bad dose of chicken pox and i can tell you that never in my life have i seen anyone with as many spots as he had! I think i was about 7 when i had it and do remember feeling quite crappy and having that chicken pox itching for days, but either the last 30 years have dulled the memories or he had a particularly bad dose!! Poor bugger. I have a picture of him covered in spots but i think he'll kill me if i show you!</div><div><br />Both us felt pretty good on Sunday so it was time to tidy up some the stuff that has just been dumped on the flat surfaces, fold and put away 2 weeks of laundry, boil wash the bedding (or maybe napalm might have been a better idea?), scrub the <a href="http://www.seiyaku.com/customs/crosses/black-death.html">red cross off the door </a>and do some bits of jobs related to some chimney work that’s been going on – namely remove the big pile of soot out of the dining room fireplace (including a poor dead bird that had dropped down) and clean the soot off the removed chimney pots stood in the back garden, as a lovely clean white cat....<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVdEX4TXQGB5_kPn1w14AiLQT5UUVY6fFujbZRDgXNDzgC2UM-dJ9utCJPeq6kZK2J_DN6zF1J1YTcXZz3RpDQge-7zwN-IweBN05UdPCLM83FZObujmex9Iu1zAsdlTPOYF297D8spE/s1600/003+(2).JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493274101773750242" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVdEX4TXQGB5_kPn1w14AiLQT5UUVY6fFujbZRDgXNDzgC2UM-dJ9utCJPeq6kZK2J_DN6zF1J1YTcXZz3RpDQge-7zwN-IweBN05UdPCLM83FZObujmex9Iu1zAsdlTPOYF297D8spE/s320/003+(2).JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Plus one sooty chimney pot....<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivS_284sbGqljhUc7CnUCsFHXVWrrNjclC7hmgVi6B8BdDLe_KQvU0rGsJ-5gqVffdGHCT8LBoOHQJ207u00l_h_fZy5VZM167ZbtXcY7ayEXEI6Q4wFmXL5wQJkMTErbhdEBO4tdLbvM/s1600/006.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493274089554099090" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivS_284sbGqljhUc7CnUCsFHXVWrrNjclC7hmgVi6B8BdDLe_KQvU0rGsJ-5gqVffdGHCT8LBoOHQJ207u00l_h_fZy5VZM167ZbtXcY7ayEXEI6Q4wFmXL5wQJkMTErbhdEBO4tdLbvM/s320/006.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Equals.....<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghqG6w4Z6qEzBLDsquwL87gdbCO8lh0N4b8LS6ESkWQa1g4fnH3vbuDth1G-xiYkcC7CN6cLa-ESQG0hs6sGcAJVHgLx-syLIpLt1wT1NchljENV8OSorKgrkwuJBHmSQTNNhHwGzulA/s1600/005.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493274087945567634" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghqG6w4Z6qEzBLDsquwL87gdbCO8lh0N4b8LS6ESkWQa1g4fnH3vbuDth1G-xiYkcC7CN6cLa-ESQG0hs6sGcAJVHgLx-syLIpLt1wT1NchljENV8OSorKgrkwuJBHmSQTNNhHwGzulA/s320/005.JPG" border="0" /></a></div></div></div></div></div>Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-11988627992504443642010-06-20T09:23:00.000-07:002010-06-20T23:25:24.800-07:00Some finishes!I was too busy being all proud of myself for last post being within a week of the one before, that i forget to come back!<br /><br />The sun was shining today so i took full advantage and took a couple of recent finishes on an outing. I only went to the local park but at least it's further than most quilts get to go!<br /><br />First up is the string X quilt. My Euro Bee buddies made a few blocks for this and i attacked the rest like a woman possessed. I've managed to use just about all my small scraps and strips on this so the only fabric i had to buy was the brown. I love scrap quilts.<br />Actually this has been finished for about a month but there isn't enough light to photograph it when i get home from work and sods law that either the weather is dreary on a weekend, or it's sunny and I'm busy.<br /><br /><em>Edited to add: I got the tutorial <a href="http://nittanyblockparty.blogspot.com/2010/02/february-blocks.html">here</a></em>!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qO_oRWikIsnKEcsue4gKPO2JJ8epbOqGAUJR070w8oWQD9QVuJ0fSacKFZVvGGMiFsuuNx3ZMRx3dcLi3HOSbgZompngPpqyRNUMRBTHMAlkbe8OjumeLwClyfcROym-HmsbU5UmgbU/s1600/008.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484894760276518114" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1qO_oRWikIsnKEcsue4gKPO2JJ8epbOqGAUJR070w8oWQD9QVuJ0fSacKFZVvGGMiFsuuNx3ZMRx3dcLi3HOSbgZompngPpqyRNUMRBTHMAlkbe8OjumeLwClyfcROym-HmsbU5UmgbU/s320/008.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The second one is the Josephs coat quilt. This has been a real labour of love and sometimes i didn't feel as if i was ever going to get there. Every time i counted the blocks i still had 5 to do. I'd count them a week later and they'd still be 5 left to do. Strange.<br />I started this what seems like eons ago for the quiltalong with <a href="http://www.dontlooknow.typepad.com/">Kellie</a>.<br />I used a pile of Mendocine FQs and a pile of AMH Good folks with a few coordinating scraps chucked in. I love it more than life itself!<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7wei8dC7wpwEQN_e2XwpbwPsi-MkmFcUPc3JOvTKz8svpJdj0WWqzzmWOllOi3gpSe0X30NFjxtppuobC0PE_v5L0Tty8SHGvAuh7Jxr6mQQqTVZ3GQJk-mJeJRnXOSZ2s9sTlAbq8iY/s1600/014.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484894264416927746" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 277px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7wei8dC7wpwEQN_e2XwpbwPsi-MkmFcUPc3JOvTKz8svpJdj0WWqzzmWOllOi3gpSe0X30NFjxtppuobC0PE_v5L0Tty8SHGvAuh7Jxr6mQQqTVZ3GQJk-mJeJRnXOSZ2s9sTlAbq8iY/s320/014.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I've added them to the humongous pile of tops to be quilted and i estimate it will be 2014 by the time i get to these!!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-7051526534111347482010-05-27T06:10:00.000-07:002010-06-01T06:15:29.923-07:00I'm back.Are you impressed? And in around a week? I certainly am.<br /><br />I needed to come back and show you what arrived ½ hour before i left on my holiday.<br />I didn’t have time to do anything with it before i left apart so i just shoved it in the car and it came on the grand tour with us!<br /><br />Drum roll please. Here’s what i got for the Urban Home Goods Swap from Sheridan.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPvkeCE93AS4BpkGtF_SN-d2d2ndCnO0MEGLOWZg1Md8g-NeBoSKvbhh4BTOb3Sl9JW_9WUTVhaBbiZXdEA5dOZ2ET8282MKH3qN8CFdUxxyoxswL8mZAqgvGX4wS5MUKoOD5MA-C7Ty8/s1600/006+(3).JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477480479334969570" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPvkeCE93AS4BpkGtF_SN-d2d2ndCnO0MEGLOWZg1Md8g-NeBoSKvbhh4BTOb3Sl9JW_9WUTVhaBbiZXdEA5dOZ2ET8282MKH3qN8CFdUxxyoxswL8mZAqgvGX4wS5MUKoOD5MA-C7Ty8/s320/006+(3).JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Now i know that i am very easily pleased as i love just about anything that involves sewing or fabric but just look at it!! It’s all the things that make me happy. Dresden, pillow, food (ok i know i can’t eat the pear but it is kinda food!), red, orange....but mostly....PINK!!!<br />Man i love pink.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj88ZZOfFvgvUTmsLs3TjkfZF-JS0Af-IQ2nAb0tFjeMoTTt-pt8haqFUKfnam385BH7qKEZzyuVnKm128P55nfqHXDJp-PjA5eKefGkj1A8DtxjuW7CyCQjWswKtMgFinTKW-e8-_KLGo/s1600/007+(3).JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477480460076052722" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 237px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj88ZZOfFvgvUTmsLs3TjkfZF-JS0Af-IQ2nAb0tFjeMoTTt-pt8haqFUKfnam385BH7qKEZzyuVnKm128P55nfqHXDJp-PjA5eKefGkj1A8DtxjuW7CyCQjWswKtMgFinTKW-e8-_KLGo/s320/007+(3).JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The fab thing is that it even matches the DQS8 i got from Louise.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ZmvysjeU5lsuiXIjGaHfuXcF_jB6niYNTYtaDgefxUE3HZ-efjPfpkwTzp65Ox3XZvhAAyetju08nB9k7RBq9DJPnNiErHrgE5saCbd4FXXtfPZSkpNbCS75GzzDOvRc_Aw994Ly_tE/s1600/005.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477503653170972082" style="WIDTH: 246px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ZmvysjeU5lsuiXIjGaHfuXcF_jB6niYNTYtaDgefxUE3HZ-efjPfpkwTzp65Ox3XZvhAAyetju08nB9k7RBq9DJPnNiErHrgE5saCbd4FXXtfPZSkpNbCS75GzzDOvRc_Aw994Ly_tE/s320/005.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I have no idea whether Sheridan planned it that way, whether both girls KNOW me, or whether we were infact triplets separated at birth!<br /><br />All i know is that I’m happy.Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-77466438865718265772010-05-24T06:34:00.000-07:002010-05-25T02:32:41.631-07:00Nous sommes revenus de nos vacances en France!!<em><span style="font-size:85%;">Title edited. Thanks to Sylvie :-)</span></em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO5LmjKQODevFSIiRuUsDu-_XjpWoSJMXydqrnW2EsbdSbJnEYQ1lq0r5hTIikvcWfaJ9oU92Vk60UJydqa3vr7_y3YmkVuadtabdhpPqAu69-zbhn06AzfjHcywFXvtNN4Vy3d-eSsPI/s1600/009.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474886102998301618" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO5LmjKQODevFSIiRuUsDu-_XjpWoSJMXydqrnW2EsbdSbJnEYQ1lq0r5hTIikvcWfaJ9oU92Vk60UJydqa3vr7_y3YmkVuadtabdhpPqAu69-zbhn06AzfjHcywFXvtNN4Vy3d-eSsPI/s320/009.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />For anyone who’s French that probably means "i have hairy legs" or something but to me it means “We are back from our holiday in France”.<br />(Well actually, i know it means that as i cheated and translated it in Google translator)<br /><br />We’ve debated about going to France for a while but i don’t do ferries. I won’t go into detail as the reason i don’t do ferries as it might put you all off your dinner, but i don’t do them. The thought of it even makes me queasy!<br />Thanks to some friends who we went with who don’t do ferries either, we got to go on the Euro tunnel – yay!! I didn’t think that driving your car onto a train could be THAT cool but maybe we’re very easily pleased.<br /><br />It’s really cool cos:<br /><br />When you drive the ticket booth it already knows who you are by your car registration number. The screens said ‘Hello M. Greenberg’ (I’m not ‘M’ Greenberg but i assume the M was Monsieur as curly boy had done the booking)<br /><br />You actually drive onto the train. It’s just like driving into a multi story car park!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI71kXqW066ieGn4ktbIIdi9c2oaWw5dD46bpCLrY4iNviBrngCqqF1CDJ6vygJqtmPPormUsOgzHEFPyCPT8NwDJhvHqdfSm_CmmpN47AbVOa7I2N0fWS5GbOdBYE-9b9OBah0VWLWhU/s1600/004.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474897259872629282" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI71kXqW066ieGn4ktbIIdi9c2oaWw5dD46bpCLrY4iNviBrngCqqF1CDJ6vygJqtmPPormUsOgzHEFPyCPT8NwDJhvHqdfSm_CmmpN47AbVOa7I2N0fWS5GbOdBYE-9b9OBah0VWLWhU/s320/004.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />You sit in your car for the whole journey which means i didn’t have to pack up the big pile of papers and bits of fabric off my lap.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0E37XHYiQASJ8vO3EnHeKaPdzcd6HEK7ss2lRtRjoKY0S9j3uGUuZPU02WnaZ9YWv_X_LHjYD5PvFjxOEppsG1GJoCBMZx2WNKAM9kz1pz7FH3352D5kVAzcKbMNVcpqFD9MZHe-E7bI/s1600/006.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474920173303179090" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0E37XHYiQASJ8vO3EnHeKaPdzcd6HEK7ss2lRtRjoKY0S9j3uGUuZPU02WnaZ9YWv_X_LHjYD5PvFjxOEppsG1GJoCBMZx2WNKAM9kz1pz7FH3352D5kVAzcKbMNVcpqFD9MZHe-E7bI/s320/006.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />It only takes 35 minutes and then you’re are back out the other end!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoRFzQ2QJFIF4BTCVX5sxv8dD4KCSbT35tHlLoC-2reCqH507rNjS0PUtmxKHvHXGVTm_H7aMCrsdRn0IzJ8bKBf8iliRbYYk0fmdfHxW35pQJ0dxxpoM7kl6o77Gfq1rWqhujsXeyIY8/s1600/011.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474900018247447026" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoRFzQ2QJFIF4BTCVX5sxv8dD4KCSbT35tHlLoC-2reCqH507rNjS0PUtmxKHvHXGVTm_H7aMCrsdRn0IzJ8bKBf8iliRbYYk0fmdfHxW35pQJ0dxxpoM7kl6o77Gfq1rWqhujsXeyIY8/s320/011.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We stayed at a gorgeous guest house the first night about an hour away from Calais<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJuP4CrSOZiCBZtGnPr_-EYtwyqlCFVpddHLGSDZ6q75cU9utqufP4pv-5nujOzGgqfSEcT-P8vZaUKzVHfhOoySln8rmONyh91g1KEySqprTpsMN3t0vS6AS5b6tWY0fPcJcKZRXHDSk/s1600/015.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474900033184728082" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJuP4CrSOZiCBZtGnPr_-EYtwyqlCFVpddHLGSDZ6q75cU9utqufP4pv-5nujOzGgqfSEcT-P8vZaUKzVHfhOoySln8rmONyh91g1KEySqprTpsMN3t0vS6AS5b6tWY0fPcJcKZRXHDSk/s320/015.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1O-BNF-kDV6U-HqVgCVJE48GGyZ7o7NBZH1SykhW34Zd034lhwO6Q7Y2eR-i0Khlr9PH_QGCkZ20l6I0cr5wpTGYj1DdV1iwWPXkRI67DLulaxtP4Bes6hpT9TlbEHLZTh6qA6v4RYQ/s1600/013.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474900039935532370" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV1O-BNF-kDV6U-HqVgCVJE48GGyZ7o7NBZH1SykhW34Zd034lhwO6Q7Y2eR-i0Khlr9PH_QGCkZ20l6I0cr5wpTGYj1DdV1iwWPXkRI67DLulaxtP4Bes6hpT9TlbEHLZTh6qA6v4RYQ/s320/013.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Stayed at the most wonderful cottage for 3 nights<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-BIqJerwZ7Kc68THouCgVDBMYp6oyRgaPXJi83Ldc7d7eCWMkWDsdS60CBW0axN1gHZnDDf_uGTf3OvgBaR0WEyXXvZoPdPS-wgpMDlwe1SR2KKinUHsX4rfTM053_IK76ORiwlEpZi0/s1600/054.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474910756178253954" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-BIqJerwZ7Kc68THouCgVDBMYp6oyRgaPXJi83Ldc7d7eCWMkWDsdS60CBW0axN1gHZnDDf_uGTf3OvgBaR0WEyXXvZoPdPS-wgpMDlwe1SR2KKinUHsX4rfTM053_IK76ORiwlEpZi0/s320/054.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Drove over this fab bridge<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvPj2_a9RDU12Hbh4iG3-E7T5RGH6b31R3y4bOzwOYArSni0_5wj0tUKUKedTTCaTGbwERmiYs2FFCdgYnQL3MkDhw6uzJan1JAPntx2qOBVBGH2PGCPUuvBWkXirjE3fjQbD_vPy4Ym0/s1600/032.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474910768405076482" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvPj2_a9RDU12Hbh4iG3-E7T5RGH6b31R3y4bOzwOYArSni0_5wj0tUKUKedTTCaTGbwERmiYs2FFCdgYnQL3MkDhw6uzJan1JAPntx2qOBVBGH2PGCPUuvBWkXirjE3fjQbD_vPy4Ym0/s320/032.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Ate fab French food, although there are no pics. I was too busy stuffing my face to pause to take a pic!<br /><br />Went to Utah Beach where Curly Boys Granddad landed on D-Day and we also collected some sandy from Utah beach to send home to his rellies in the US.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWkeLSvNmcy4SGkubtVNgecxgdNPXW8ydSBOvKGaFQ9oPikZA_yslegcLM6dj66unPR5XWapShpSUkBoje4Lj3e3whmNeGmE2Xj0vpZa_WvPtHpFkuWj2P_ZviXDTeIb-8_Ywkl7wnbk/s1600/010.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474886091889329650" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWkeLSvNmcy4SGkubtVNgecxgdNPXW8ydSBOvKGaFQ9oPikZA_yslegcLM6dj66unPR5XWapShpSUkBoje4Lj3e3whmNeGmE2Xj0vpZa_WvPtHpFkuWj2P_ZviXDTeIb-8_Ywkl7wnbk/s320/010.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />.....and went to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Coleville Sur Mere.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayvEx0t1Swvp7XeZQsMjHo_MaAwWaN7aGmMQzMJKe9yEbT4dqcs4-75-L8EvOFHHpLU8scTUhe2UFuckqMPIdJCUlTs57P4tYdqfuo8iFemG6r-PkzVjmaY4fSJ6y8hWQP3HXRGZi2GA/s1600/031.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474886248322372578" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjayvEx0t1Swvp7XeZQsMjHo_MaAwWaN7aGmMQzMJKe9yEbT4dqcs4-75-L8EvOFHHpLU8scTUhe2UFuckqMPIdJCUlTs57P4tYdqfuo8iFemG6r-PkzVjmaY4fSJ6y8hWQP3HXRGZi2GA/s320/031.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Wow. I can honestly say that i don’t think i have ever felt the way i felt when i turned the corner and all those crosses (and the occasional Star of David dotted amongst them) were in front of us, laid out in perfectly aligned rows. I felt like i had been punched in the chest and for what seemed like an eternity i couldn’t get my breath.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJjS_e3xiI2CtKIJk_jc_BoiYgJAs7pQ8Trq2YGKckrA7gpxiht1XwOaF5ZbAMx94xsVIf1FyQWloH3HIberKXdPZ33io4ejhWIbhXP6aHBLv3LsJVy8gB4pebaME_8UwUjfog8d8XwYg/s1600/028.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474917785004999522" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJjS_e3xiI2CtKIJk_jc_BoiYgJAs7pQ8Trq2YGKckrA7gpxiht1XwOaF5ZbAMx94xsVIf1FyQWloH3HIberKXdPZ33io4ejhWIbhXP6aHBLv3LsJVy8gB4pebaME_8UwUjfog8d8XwYg/s320/028.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />When you hear stories of D-Day it is more often that told from the perspective of military strategy and for those of us that didn’t lose loved ones on that day it is easy to forget about the individuals. The sons, fathers, brothers etc. Each one of those men laid in the cemetery meant something to someone and their lives would be forever changed by the loss.<br /><br />People talk and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen">poets write about the futility of the war</a>. I don’t think that there was anything futile about what all those men did on D-Day. They were fighting to protect the freedom of the British people and to liberate those who were already under occupation. I don’t pretend to know all the ins and out of WWII but i think that as a result of the D-Day landings they ultimately secured that freedom. That doesn’t sound futile to me.<br /><br />WWII finished when my parents were still babies and 27 years before i was born but i think it is still very much ingrained in the psyche of Brits. Like the ‘<a href="http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/dunkirk+spirit.html">Dunkirk Spirit’ </a>.....and bizarrely a tendency to hoard tinned food! When a friends granddad died in the early 90’s his cellar was absolutely full of tinned food. Much of which had gone out of date in the mid 60's!!<br /><br />There are so many things to see and do in Normandy that unfortunately we ran out of time before we’d even scratch the surface. We’ll definitely be going back soon though.<br /><br />I’ll be back here soon too, although i use the word ‘soon' in the loosest of senses! I want to tell what else we got up to on holiday, show you the loot i got and the wonderful contents of a package i received ½ hour before leaving for the holiday!!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-47749819447266136572010-05-04T05:12:00.000-07:002010-05-04T13:09:53.052-07:00...and breathhhhhhh...As you will already know, Fat Quarterly launched on the 27th April and we have been astounded and thrilled with just how wonderfully it has been received. Thank you to all of you from the bottom of our hearts!!<br /><br />None of us are world renowned quilters nor do we think by any stretch of the imagination that we are experts. We are just normal gals and guy trying to make pretty things and to share how we go about it. Your comments – good are bad – are really valuable so if have any comments or suggestions just nip over to the <a href="http://www.fatquarterly.com/">website</a> or the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/fatquarterly/">Flickr</a> page and let us know what you think.<br /><br />I have been snatching some time here and there and have got more to show you than i thought but i haven’t snapped any pics of some things so you’ll have to make do with what i was up to this weekend!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ1gOEESaCaD-fqtJYTMQQ8mv8RgExyT1TiJWg6YqF21NYxP4VYN45RpBSsO4p7oIIVz6aOiOBlySPJtgfbQtM8B1M3CdPkgDiUbQ9QTACLevI745EO7svxEWHLjmZpF5SzSVTq1Zlg9I/s1600/016.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467507263368345906" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ1gOEESaCaD-fqtJYTMQQ8mv8RgExyT1TiJWg6YqF21NYxP4VYN45RpBSsO4p7oIIVz6aOiOBlySPJtgfbQtM8B1M3CdPkgDiUbQ9QTACLevI745EO7svxEWHLjmZpF5SzSVTq1Zlg9I/s320/016.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />The deadline for the Urban Home Goods swap is looming so i dedicated this weekend to that. I had cut out everything i needed for it but for the last month it’s been pinned to the Moroccan rug wall hung on the wall in the hallway. Again i was given a partner with a very different style to me that really pushed me out of my comfort zone. After the initial obligatory “whatma-gonna-do” panic, i Googled ‘plant shapes’ and ‘organic shapes’ and found some inspiration almost immediately. No dithering for a change.<br /><br />So, this weekend I’ve been quilting....and quilting....and quilting. Quilting the stem and around the circles in brown, and then little swirls all over the background. I couldn’t stop running my hands over it as dense quilting feels soooo cool!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1CIJ3kEcO25MywbuubxK9riuDOOb0PhEedqJWCBEUZEPOOLVVVEO3SGCDALIdxJcu4rKceQU5RCswS17eyeauawJ6BzL-ZrH2M3Ix3JWNAdiiIm1USV0zO35Qs-Jqc53SkAApgnniTM4/s1600/014.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467507267529832386" style="WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1CIJ3kEcO25MywbuubxK9riuDOOb0PhEedqJWCBEUZEPOOLVVVEO3SGCDALIdxJcu4rKceQU5RCswS17eyeauawJ6BzL-ZrH2M3Ix3JWNAdiiIm1USV0zO35Qs-Jqc53SkAApgnniTM4/s320/014.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I believe that sewing machines are like hunting animals – they sense your free motion quilting fear!! I find that the more confidently i approach it more successful the outcome.<br /><br />Many of the tips i have found on the web suggest going very slowly. This doesn’t work for me as i find it more difficult to get my ‘groove’ and my shapes end up looking a bit jerky. So, I just set the machine to a medium speed, took a deep breath, and dived in head first!<br /><br />I hope my partner likes her table runner/wall hanging. I think she might but i can’t tell you why or that will give the game away :-)<br /><br />By the way....my friend Melanie has just made the big leap into blogland. She hasn't been sewing very long but judging by her productivity she's well and truly hooked! I'm sure she'd love it if you <a href="http://craftingwithmel.blogspot.com/">popped by</a> and said 'Hi'.Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-85088687872964001802010-04-24T09:21:00.000-07:002010-04-24T15:25:51.215-07:00To the rescue!Hello all!<br /><br />I am Curly Boy, Flossy's hubby. She's been soooooo busy lately with other things she just hasn't had time to update her blog.I don't have a white horse but I thought I'd come to the rescue anyway. You're now probably wondering what she's actually been doing. The biggest project is the quilt that Jimmy has claimed for his own.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDzIzB_9ATAULofl33uINjMaUaQszSJRV-tIlZE0Xr5guj3Sfxq1YxE1mHHu4OSTJi4Kz-mzsK2F5dofibgzkVDX-yp_iSqr2T7SMSCCk8vKZH9r73VuqOnPEioN-gtgX79IU7FsIlicw/s1600/001.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDzIzB_9ATAULofl33uINjMaUaQszSJRV-tIlZE0Xr5guj3Sfxq1YxE1mHHu4OSTJi4Kz-mzsK2F5dofibgzkVDX-yp_iSqr2T7SMSCCk8vKZH9r73VuqOnPEioN-gtgX79IU7FsIlicw/s320/001.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463740696759124834" /></a><br /><br />This quilt pattern is available in <a href="http://blog.fatquarterly.com/">Fat Quarterly</a> issue 1 which finally launches on Tuesday the 27th. You'll have to make your own since Jimmy doesn't seem likely to give up this one!<br /><br />She's also been making lots of Bee blocks. She really loves doing these! She's like a kid on Christmas morning when the postie pops another batch of fabric through the door. I can't tell you who they were for since I don't really know. I DO know that the second pair are spiderwebs and the single one is based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian">Mondrian</a>. The first two use her favorite thing to make... half square triangles! The blocks were a good warm up for the FQ quilt since that took almost 400 of them! If you want any more detail you'll have to link through to her <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossyblossy/">Flickr</a> page.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2FpOJOmtD6IwVouytkvKeaxLhpHbgabGiQUe2_xlgRYlgJIbkZLEPu16cPf_iezK9hJ4eYIlBrgfiB2eiB2J_eAwQOKt3VrupzoueJoVqjpDkKSj9KPgOejrLLszyYWwhu7VXLcaZYoA/s1600/005.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2FpOJOmtD6IwVouytkvKeaxLhpHbgabGiQUe2_xlgRYlgJIbkZLEPu16cPf_iezK9hJ4eYIlBrgfiB2eiB2J_eAwQOKt3VrupzoueJoVqjpDkKSj9KPgOejrLLszyYWwhu7VXLcaZYoA/s320/005.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463745000155062690" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1VldwrqkoFkjTMGmKivSIxGv52PrQwDpSA3_BsKbmxeAvdQgBt3nuTZu9IK-Gxl5qBhg5c3Ns5HsXaFA6wBr1K6OLW1Q5qSH0JdIIpGWSTPUBbl7I5AMTTvp2M8dUjkjSx1C8WlgPLBI/s1600/006.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1VldwrqkoFkjTMGmKivSIxGv52PrQwDpSA3_BsKbmxeAvdQgBt3nuTZu9IK-Gxl5qBhg5c3Ns5HsXaFA6wBr1K6OLW1Q5qSH0JdIIpGWSTPUBbl7I5AMTTvp2M8dUjkjSx1C8WlgPLBI/s320/006.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463744995815252850" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMF4JiQ-E9lUMi13od-L9bCNMIOC5APPrnjCzaVrUwrKxgSBqgq3dqNpfGhZurWJ4mT3J1NkLV_XlvwqXhmsC_9-C3nEYoApsj73cJUt-u7cnH4_gJCrGJLwWXWs9IcKFO47u_nCZNZ7M/s1600/007.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMF4JiQ-E9lUMi13od-L9bCNMIOC5APPrnjCzaVrUwrKxgSBqgq3dqNpfGhZurWJ4mT3J1NkLV_XlvwqXhmsC_9-C3nEYoApsj73cJUt-u7cnH4_gJCrGJLwWXWs9IcKFO47u_nCZNZ7M/s320/007.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463744995116973890" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQi7tFieLKPbH9_992H8rsCPUmAaVLfRZdCGrUOuTYjtGTFkGv9bygTVGb9JrJG2wRaNWOle9L76TmYrIvxTYvmpK1FoyVhnWh8YEeGqn2QphVdwY-1b6RQBjjXXeTWHKpk5TDoMhq7i0/s1600/002.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQi7tFieLKPbH9_992H8rsCPUmAaVLfRZdCGrUOuTYjtGTFkGv9bygTVGb9JrJG2wRaNWOle9L76TmYrIvxTYvmpK1FoyVhnWh8YEeGqn2QphVdwY-1b6RQBjjXXeTWHKpk5TDoMhq7i0/s320/002.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463744986694345810" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirXEfdj-E6gKhQyx4K52rmIEYuj1pFI7lM1hE8zPC3IgUXP-JxN3hkHYsIMvvSnS84DvNV6s20nJ7vApkPaDqERcMGlhfNzHCdB5bcVa9tRURp1GHCrl69wZKlHV37ihZRQ5ZPSCHuF00/s1600/001.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirXEfdj-E6gKhQyx4K52rmIEYuj1pFI7lM1hE8zPC3IgUXP-JxN3hkHYsIMvvSnS84DvNV6s20nJ7vApkPaDqERcMGlhfNzHCdB5bcVa9tRURp1GHCrl69wZKlHV37ihZRQ5ZPSCHuF00/s320/001.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463744981465727826" /></a><br /><br />Some of you may be wondering what happens to all of these huge quilts after Flossy is done with them. She has given the odd one away as a pressie, like the one for my Mum and our friends Sam and Vikki, but most we keep. The problem of course is that we can't use them all at the same time. We DID have 4 on the bed at the same time during the dead of winter but any more than that and we wouldn't have been able to breathe! When not in use they go to the spare bedroom on top of the boiler cupboard. This keeps them warm for emergencies. You'll need the pass word though, you REALLY don't want to mess with Mr. Bunny!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiojxYEJ_lukA740COBtFfFnZevQCVv1INympf2sNpla_1E8gwG2j3JmJHYb-pHa7XGlLlG5RkiqtDeCEUBHe9bhT6pyOn7NwkmwWgPrzqsR8C6FaZUD4VZWxVoH5Ky7qVhLBnn5Bumd18/s1600/016.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiojxYEJ_lukA740COBtFfFnZevQCVv1INympf2sNpla_1E8gwG2j3JmJHYb-pHa7XGlLlG5RkiqtDeCEUBHe9bhT6pyOn7NwkmwWgPrzqsR8C6FaZUD4VZWxVoH5Ky7qVhLBnn5Bumd18/s320/016.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463746672322583986" /></a><br /><br />Flossy is down in London this weekend at the V&A to see the quilt exhibition with her friends <a href="http://www.imagingermonkey.blogspot.com/">Katy</a>, <a href="http://haniesquilts.blogspot.com/">Tacha</a>, and <a href="http://comfortstitching.typepad.co.uk/">Aneela</a>. Hopefully she'll have time to do another post after the launch on Tuesday. I'm sure they are taking lots of pictures to share!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-61784269070398291852010-04-14T23:09:00.000-07:002010-04-14T23:16:00.831-07:00You DO know that .....<a href="http://www.fatquarterly.com/">FQ is coming </a>soon, don't you?? <br /><br /><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGInpKMEAhrrWJdefJkVDpr1exWv5l1J2-gdXF9idVwhDmKiWf17OV6aXT_amb3QHIZYiyCHTAWVVSGAUxM5UgTSt1AvQ_rBa3z0Z4I6ebASiggWBX8Bo0oVwhdw5ibklE2yEZcG05riY/s1600/038.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460243747042058546" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGInpKMEAhrrWJdefJkVDpr1exWv5l1J2-gdXF9idVwhDmKiWf17OV6aXT_amb3QHIZYiyCHTAWVVSGAUxM5UgTSt1AvQ_rBa3z0Z4I6ebASiggWBX8Bo0oVwhdw5ibklE2yEZcG05riY/s200/038.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-11559543175770995132010-04-06T03:18:00.000-07:002010-04-06T11:16:36.150-07:00I've been slacking on my blog posts...<div>...but not in real life!<br /><br />I've been working on a ton of stuff. Honestly.<br /><br />There's been this baby quilt for my close friend Tracey's 1st grandchild...<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieXxVQKL2NgPirWD1-jOvW6whkO3XBlIYy65aa1Aa_p9Dd37NjGFK_QBWOMYVtjRTZL872XgIcuBNfI8SimTWDviZNqyJ6jHflGIwbLrhGqiJYtf4D2C4ibJL4EymRgRgfwMkGfOKgv_0/s1600/001.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457000772079055874" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieXxVQKL2NgPirWD1-jOvW6whkO3XBlIYy65aa1Aa_p9Dd37NjGFK_QBWOMYVtjRTZL872XgIcuBNfI8SimTWDviZNqyJ6jHflGIwbLrhGqiJYtf4D2C4ibJL4EymRgRgfwMkGfOKgv_0/s200/001.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEJlePHlWzt1ocGUnEVvshofDA3blIY-u34GxEdJGudRxp9P7qIbLp8TWuww1nTcn0avNPabjFZNLOhHCHBvgixynuqOoJVssrA8GonnMFHrG6Qun7mwYQX39Gq3qhoPiBqF8e8fG0Pg/s1600/003.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457000780049730610" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEJlePHlWzt1ocGUnEVvshofDA3blIY-u34GxEdJGudRxp9P7qIbLp8TWuww1nTcn0avNPabjFZNLOhHCHBvgixynuqOoJVssrA8GonnMFHrG6Qun7mwYQX39Gq3qhoPiBqF8e8fG0Pg/s200/003.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />An awful LOT of this!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZnV6_OqyGPnOFcgRXH3FVr0WslmeCyJ5w-0CItSIq1m_EDxZ_pYFr0II4gYCa-wyOG6eRw7w5rA83kiyNQl6XidEku_elLad19_N7xzmkueU_u1q48s0jgVklBA3Ckmj20BNujXlKj30/s1600/011.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457000803299125298" style="WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZnV6_OqyGPnOFcgRXH3FVr0WslmeCyJ5w-0CItSIq1m_EDxZ_pYFr0II4gYCa-wyOG6eRw7w5rA83kiyNQl6XidEku_elLad19_N7xzmkueU_u1q48s0jgVklBA3Ckmj20BNujXlKj30/s200/011.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwL59VP-xC2FomDaJoSpNUuMkeS2OzyUgCdQkIwTRxMYroicS_yBXgcCCnBR_M4cyTW4s87eyhpIpOlmeMQqaB36Ihnoeq8I1dW3FKUtP9gSRqXpV1sLDtlFpxDC2Y6_Ln6u4V32VEK8/s1600/012.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457000806080095266" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwL59VP-xC2FomDaJoSpNUuMkeS2OzyUgCdQkIwTRxMYroicS_yBXgcCCnBR_M4cyTW4s87eyhpIpOlmeMQqaB36Ihnoeq8I1dW3FKUtP9gSRqXpV1sLDtlFpxDC2Y6_Ln6u4V32VEK8/s200/012.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p>396 of them in fact, and for a REALLY exciting new project!! (and before you ask it's not a quilt to match my ironing board cover :-) )</p><br /><p>All will revealed soon!</p></div>Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-88158266024426655892010-03-22T07:07:00.000-07:002010-03-22T07:14:17.566-07:00Josephs Coat quilt along.I’ve been plodding along with my Josephs coat – not as quickly i would have liked as i got sidetracked by the dresden plate.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibD8mXjmA-J1Vn-4G3jjYNlzJlcDosNAd-AqMMz44Lwk2SWeP2HU17wMSLk6uWimDIa2VX12BpvMACNF_5UVe3HR2eBvI3o7bAC74xigyhjc8CMy3yIIEq5Eg8oGwmTK33BfTeb0l96bk/s1600-h/dresden.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451460761511132034" style="WIDTH: 75px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 75px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibD8mXjmA-J1Vn-4G3jjYNlzJlcDosNAd-AqMMz44Lwk2SWeP2HU17wMSLk6uWimDIa2VX12BpvMACNF_5UVe3HR2eBvI3o7bAC74xigyhjc8CMy3yIIEq5Eg8oGwmTK33BfTeb0l96bk/s200/dresden.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Dresden pate blocks are now complete so i can get back to my josephs coat.<br /><br />I have 14 blocks joined together<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcnROvWco_GUoPrAiFajui_qfdxb77vxsKf3oFa8RNHeVb-nDDVSDcKxK6jndD4rWBya4PVRPv4pgT7GyD5E0nBveEBuja95b7qANMD_xkkozoCbrB0bDlOm4jquup8SFV1Xp1v39qqlM/s1600-h/josephs+coat+14b.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451460369762756530" style="WIDTH: 67px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcnROvWco_GUoPrAiFajui_qfdxb77vxsKf3oFa8RNHeVb-nDDVSDcKxK6jndD4rWBya4PVRPv4pgT7GyD5E0nBveEBuja95b7qANMD_xkkozoCbrB0bDlOm4jquup8SFV1Xp1v39qqlM/s200/josephs+coat+14b.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />another 23 blocks finished, 3 blocks pinned and ready to sew and the rest of petals all prepared and ready.<br /><br />Now I’m back to it and have no other hand sewing underway i get stuck in again (assuming i don’t get all appliquéd out!!) i should be able to make some decent progress.<br />I sew these on the train so and from work the train and on the sofa when i can’t be bothered to peel my butt off the sofa to do anything. I like hand stitching as it’s a good justification for sitting around and watching telly!<br /><br />I had FQ bundle each of Heather Ross’ Mendocino and Anna Maria Horner Good folks that the colours went really well together, and i threw some Anna Maria Horner Chocolate Lollipop, some Flea Market Fancy, and a few coordinating scraps in for good measure.<br /><br />I’m loving how the colours are looking together and this quilt is going to ALL MINE when it’s done. Yet another to add to the growing pile of quilts.Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2299601793778264216.post-53802774085795428732010-03-20T02:11:00.000-07:002010-03-20T02:27:08.952-07:00The auction is now over!!!.....and the winner is Melanie Kemp who has the winning bid of a storming $310!<br /><br />Thank you sssoooo much Melanie - i will mail you shortly!<br />You are now the proud new owner of <a href="http://flossyblossy.blogspot.com/2010/03/let-auction-begin.html">this gorgeous 9 patch quilt</a>.....and the fabulous <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagingermonkey/4426392691/in/pool-1109001@N21">scotty dog pillow</a> made by Katy.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imagingermonkey.blogspot.com/">Katy</a> and I want to thank everyone has placed a bid, and to everyone who has stood on the sidelines and cheered us on, but mostly thank you Melanie for your generosity!<br /><br />I will also be taking full advantage of the 'Gifts Matching scheme' at work. <br />The Company will match dollar for dollar any funds raised by an employee - so the grand total raised for Doctors Without Borders for their work in Chile and Haiti, is a whopping $620.<br /><br />I'm THRILLED!!<br /><br />P.S. I would have added some pics rather than linking to them but Blogger appears to be misbehaving...again!Brioni Greenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12397989361256590121noreply@blogger.com