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Unfinished Projects

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I started this “sea swept” quilt back in 2016. I had been making a number of other quilts at the time (like we all do) when I wanted to do something a little different.id been working on a “Doctor Who” paper pieced quilt for my husband for his 21st (now 25 and still waiting) and I wanted something that would be a quick project. Well turns out, it wasn’t as quick as I thought it would be. I made a number of blocks and started to lay it out then calculated how many of each block I thought I would need, and let’s just say it’s a lot. It’s been a fabulous scrap buster. When making other projects, if I happen to have a scrap or two left over it goes in the quilt draw (my way of organising projects). Then I go through and cut them down into the sizes I need for the different blocks. Once cut I’ve kept them organised in ziplock bags, definitely a blessing. I’ve picked it up again this past weekend now that The Festival of Quilts is over. And thankfully there is Symposium next year so I
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Festival of Quilts 2018

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Yesterday I attended the Festival of Quilts in Auckland. This is the first time I have entred any quilts into a show that was to be judged. I had entred a number over the years as a junior member when I was a lot younger and living in Auckland. But since moving to Whangarei I hadn’t thought about joining the guild till I had attended the Festival last year. Earlier in the week I had received a phone call to say I better be at prize giving because my quilt had won an award. I am absolutely over the moon! My goal this year was to enter, and to have won something in my first year of entering is just mind blowing. My quilt Prismatic Refraction This was a quilt I had been working on since the last Festival and had been collecting fabrics for some time (as we all seem to do). I had two other quilts in the show and I was wanting to enter a third, I took two quilt tops down to one of my local quilt shops and asked for their opinion. They both said this one, and this was also backe
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