Caitycat, Caitycat, where have you been? And More Mirandas

I’ve been ASLEEP.

*sigh*

Remember I told you about the horrible chair at quilter’s? Well, that set me up for several days of worse than usual pain, which buggered my sleep patterns, which made the pain worse - and round and round and round we go, where it stops nobody knows!

At least I got out of the house and had blood drawn on Thursday. Back to the doctors next week to see the results.

I have managed some sewing - more Mirandas - and since Mum doesn’t have internet access at the moment (she’s in Adelaide, with Dad, visiting my brother & his family, and going to all sorts of exciting things like the Adelaide Festival and Womadelaide) I’ll show you her Miranda bag, too. (She knows she’s getting it, she just hasn’t seen it yet!).

This is the inside of Mum’s Miranda bag. I added a hooky thingummy (What ARE they called?) for keys/phone - as soon as I can find some more I’ll be adding them to my bag, too! I actually finished Mum’s bag and book a while back, but there was no point posting it to her yet because they’re away. I adore this fabric - it’s long gone from the shops now, though. (Chez Moi for Moda, “Fresh Air”. Too too yummy!)

Then I did two Mirandas using the same fabrics in part of them - I think they came up well.

This one’s for J, in Oregon, a late birthday pressie. Might have to wait until after next pension day to mail it though! and that’s another little (A6) blank book covered to match.

Here’s the inside: more of that yummy suns/moons fabric (which I’ve had in the stash for ages) and some clouds for the pockets. The stripes are another stash find - I’m using up fabrics that I’ve held on to FOREVER Because they were “too good” to use up. Nope, off they go - into the world where they will (hopefully!) be enjoyed!

And finally, here’s A’s Miranda. Same sun/moon and blue fabric for the top half, but with a wild orangey swirl for the bottom. Because I’m pretty sure A works in a big visual diary, I decided to cover an A5 brag book - room for 80 photos - instead.

and Here’s the inside of A’s Miranda - hand dyed fabrics, because A is a hand dyeing GODDESS. This one’s going in the post whenever I get out of the house next - probably Monday. (I can afford to post within Australia this week…I think… eeeks!)

And now - I need to write up my tutorial for Quilters on Tuesday. Just a quick demo on Flying Geese - and some paper pieced variations. (I’ll pop it up on the Toowoomba Quilters blog after Tuesday, too.) I know there are other quick ways to do flying geese, but honestly - paper piecing is so quick and accurate - and no bias triangles to deal with (because they’re stabilised by the paper, you can ignore fabric grain if you want to) .

I’ve made this pattern of offset little geese just 1 inch wide… no way would I even ATTEMPT that without foundation paper piecing!

And there’s V8s on later - wooo hoooooo!