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(The not-so-secret diary of life and stuff in a hilltop town)
Trash Towers Dictionary
a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.
BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.
Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.
bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.
blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'
eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.
feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!
ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.
lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.
La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!
lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.
OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.
Q.I. - Quite interesting.
terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .
TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).
TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Need tips.
Thinking I may try a quilt type thing for Sylv's big birthday. Any clues?
and they've all been easy patterns. If you want me to write you some destructions then drop me an email from the cookie blog and I'll send some across.
The easiest type of quilt that I have made is where you cut loads of lengths of fabric about 2.5inches wide and then piece them together randomly then sew the stips together - it's in Leanne Beasley's Living the Dream book (only she does it properly and not randomly!!!) It means there are no seams to match at any point which suits me fine!
This is the one that I made for myself http://bp0.blogger.com/_W1QqG4cpBZs/Rn-a07BgqFI/AAAAAAAAAPg/Yh43vTThajU/s1600-h/wh+quilt.jpg
nope, that one doesn't either but if you add this bit to the end and make sure there aren't any spaces it might work - if not go back to 25 june last year on my blog - or give up (the quilt's not that good!!!)
8 comments:
Hi TC.
I've made a couple of quilts now. You can check out the last one here:
http://trashaloucan.blogspot.com/2008/03/need-tips.html
and they've all been easy patterns. If you want me to write you some destructions then drop me an email from the cookie blog and I'll send some across.
xMx
The easiest type of quilt that I have made is where you cut loads of lengths of fabric about 2.5inches wide and then piece them together randomly then sew the stips together - it's in Leanne Beasley's Living the Dream book (only she does it properly and not randomly!!!) It means there are no seams to match at any point which suits me fine!
This is the one that I made for myself
http://bp0.blogger.com/_W1QqG4cpBZs/Rn-a07BgqFI/AAAAAAAAAPg/Yh43vTThajU/s1600-h/wh+quilt.jpg
ok, so that link doesn't work - this one might!
http://lucylocketrecycledherpocket.blogspot.com/2007/06
nope, that one doesn't either but if you add this bit to the end and make sure there aren't any spaces it might work - if not go back to 25 june last year on my blog - or give up (the quilt's not that good!!!)
/we-finally-managed-to-spend-some-time.html
When's the b-day? I have some great off-line resources/patterns that I can share...
ps: also, the easiestone I've ever done it the flannel "rag" quilt - all straight lines!
don't look at me! I haven't a clue! I'll be stalking your commenters though as I'm sure I'll be needing to make one soon now that you've asked!!!
xxx
I've only ever made one quilt - for my daughter. It was made up of lots and lots of squares - some had appliqué on, some didn't. It was fairly easy, but took me sooooooooooooooooooooooo long :-O Good luck! x
My "clues" are
1. Strip piece - you will thank me for this one.
2. Work with rectangles - no triangles on point, no curved edges.
3. Enjoy the process!
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