25/03/2009 by Liz.

It has been some time since last writing on the blog, fortunately there is more e-mailing between the Loosethreads group. I have managed to complete two wall hangings, average 38” by 25”, the blue cockerel using up scraps of indigo fabric, that should really have been thrown away. And the Arabic Blue Camel also using fabric dyed by me.Pakistan has been difficult to adjust to with respect to shopping, food and heat. However, I came prepared, packed all of my procion dyes, fabric for dyeing, wadding, sewing machine and cottons. There has been a trip to the Lahore Fortress, a couple to Dubai, good for stocking up on essential items from shopping list that one would not care to survive without. Then there is John, my 10 year old who still is chaperoned by mum when he has football, tennis, swimming and school pick up. So between cooking meals, and recovering from avoiding near death mishaps with Lahore traffic, I have time for my patchwork. I’m now working on my next project, a fantastic perspective of Lahore Traffic circling a round-about including donkey and horse carts.

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31/01/2009 by Mary.

Well there has to be an upside to the freezing cold weather and that has been that I have spent more time sewing than usual.  I have finished lap quilt for my brother-in-law and had an amazed thank you letter by return of post.  I have also made a log cabin cushion for the Hexagon AGM Challenge using curved courthouse blocks.  This was a method a devised for my City and Guilds course and I was pleased to see that its replication on a small scale worked well.  I have also finished my piece for the monthly Loose  Threads challenge!

Three of us had a great time on Tuesday shopping for more fabric at Village Fabrics and then yesterday I started to think about finishing my Philippa Naylor workshop piece and realised it could only be done by buying more fabric. I think I better work on something else instead!

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24/05/2008 by Kevin.

I’ve reorganised the site slightly.  The old area of Examples - which were had sections with quilts, etc, below - have now been replaced with each members work.  Although this was below members (and still is) - it is perhaps a more intuiive way of finding the work.

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24/05/2008 by Kevin.

Loose Threads now has a ‘Blog’ site.

This should be a convenient way of just writing things on the site as simply as possible - just get into the habit of writing what you do - or go to visit (exhibitions,you visit, etc)

To get into this go to the  loosethreads site www.loosethreads.co.uk

scroll down a bit an you will see the blog site listed at the bottom of the text on the page.   Click on ‘Blog Site’

You should now see the blog site.

If  you want to enter anything (don’t be worried I can tidy anything up afterwards) - Scroll down (looking at the left hand menus - click on “site admin” under Meta - don’t worry what meta is!)

You should now be prompted to enter your username and password

You should now be enter a new post - select write - give it a title, write something - Tick the category on the right hand side that best matches your topic and at the end press publish - it will now be in the site.   Simple as that.

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