It doesn't seem possible that it is 6 months since I last posted. I am now totally comfortable with my new robot and have quilted quite a number of quilts on it. There are a few features I haven't yet used but I will.
I had a great day yesterday - First off I had a customer bring her quilt that she wants me to baste. What with having a cup of coffee and chatting about quilting generally, that lasted over an hour and a half. Straight after that I took a number of quilts to show to the Tuesday morning patchwork group in Watton, Norfolk (UK)where I live. The visit was very well received - they liked my quilting.
Straight from there I went for the first time to a 'Wayland Women In Business' lunch. The guest speaker was Claire Martinsen (www.brecklandorchard.co.uk). She started a small business, on a very low buget, about 18 months ago, making lightly fizzy fruit drinks based on her grandmothers recipes. I met so many truly talented people at the lunch and was given some very good marketing advice. I was also pointed in the direction of 2 Norfolk WIRE (Women In Rural Enterprise) groups - one is South Norfolk and the other is in Norwich. I am sure that I will attend the Norwich group.
Today is going to be much less high pressure. I have 4 friends that I used to work with coming to lunch. Chat - Chat -Chat -Chat -Chat - ...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Friday, 19 March 2010
I've got a brand new robot
Last time I blogged I had just received an email to say that my new robot had been dispatched. Well it arrived within a couple of days and I installed it over the weekend (with a tiny bit of help from KRH). Not being one to mess about, I set about designing a practice quilt. Didn't want to make it too easy - wanted to do something to really get to know what this new robot could do and how it did it. IT - IS - TERRIFIC !!! and I haven't even used all that it can do yet but I have discovered some things that I didn't know it could do that are really neat. I have put some photos below of the quilt and I'm looking forward to starting the next quilt so that I can use some more of the features but since the coming weekend is going to be busy, starting that is going to have to wait until Monday.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
DNS Problems
I have recently been trying to build a new website since my old one got wiped out when the host company got hacked and wrecked.
Well I managed to get as far as a very basic first page and my ISP has messed up so that my domain name does not at the moment connect to the web site on some ISPs. There is nothing wrong with the web site - it is just that some people can't see it.
I have had some good news though and that is that I have had an email to let me know that my new quilting robot has been dispatched FedEx. Needless to say I am tracking it with great eagerness.
Anyway, what I am going to do today is just put a few photographs of the latest of my quilting project. The quilt top is called "Round the Camp Fire" and is another beautiful example of patchwork and colour by Joy - Dragonfly_Dawn.
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Header
I have been looking at other peoples blog sites - I'm going to have to make mine look more interesting
Quilting in February 2010
This quilt should really have come between the prev 2 but hey ho. It had been partially hand quilted by the patchworker and instead of wadding and backing it has a fleece backing which I thinks looks and feels rather good.
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