Starting a blog seemed like a great idea until I was faced with this empty page that I’m supposed to fill with interesting things! And I thought that choosing a blog name was going to be the hardest part. I want to thank my friends Judy, Kate and Kay for trying to help me come up with a name but, as they will see, I ignored all of their suggestions. As Judy pointed out I’d end up with a lot of weirdos reading the blog if I’d gone ahead with any of them!
So a bit about me. I’m Evelyn and I’m a Welsh lady living in Australia where a lot of brilliantly talented quilt designers live. I’m not one of them! But I do enjoy creating quilts. I like most of the process except for cutting fabrics, piecing, pressing, unpicking, pressing, quilting, binding and labelling. I am quite good at unpicking though as I’ve had plenty of practice! My absolute favourite part is the completed project. Once that is spread on my bed, gifted or whatever I soon forget how tedious the rest of the process has been. I am exaggerating, of course, but sewing can be very monotonous!
I started quilting in 1993, when I was 20, after my mum asked me to drive her to a quilting class. I didn’t want to wait around in the car for her so I joined too. We started by learning how to make one block with cardboard templates and curtain fabric. After our first block, I realised that if you can make one block you can make two, then three and then a whole quilt! I discovered the meaning of life! So we quit classes and got to work on our quilts.
Here’s my first quilt after it was repaired a couple of years ago.
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