Documenting and Preserving

(Parched by Hollis Chatelain)....one of many quilts with stories features on the website/youtube

Quilt Alliance are doing great work to document and preserve the stories behind  quilts.
Check out these......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6JyKVkP_0

I think it is so important to record the stories of your quilts on the back  or somewhere in a journal.
Talking about holding on to things...like Hollis I have a box of denim offcuts that I thought would be great for an abstract quilt......this has inspired me to dig those out over the school holidays!

I'm also going to play with my sun dyes
http://www.dyedheaven.com/store/sundye_paints/

But back to clearing the backlog of Christmas sewing

And if pincushions are featuring in your gifts this year... consider purchasing ground walnuts (fine grade) from Cracker of a Nut..they keep pins sharp
http://www.crackernut.co.nz/ground.html