TrashCan: The Queen of Curvy Sewing.

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.

Friday, 27 May 2011

The Queen of Curvy Sewing.

Not it is not My Assistant.

Although she was very taken with this incredibly clever book.

I wrestled it out from under her and read it through from cover to cover.

Ever wanted to make curved blocks but been put off be twisty bias-cut fabric turning evil? This clever lady makes it all soooooo simple even I could do it effectively.

Look! I made a strawberry!

Wanna see the trick?

By cutting the squares on a set curve they interlock with other pieces easily and when sewn together they make a single square, this means there are only ever straight lines to join. No fiddling with miles of bias cut edges. Oh I do love this new trick.

Yay for Oxfam having this book hidden away on its shelf and a huge thank-you to the craft-loving woman whose children donated it.

8 comments:

Lina said...: That is so cool!; 27 May 2011 1:11 pm
Thimbleanna said...: Oooh, very interesting! Looks like a fun way to do curved piecing.; 27 May 2011 2:16 pm
quinn said...: That book was a find! And your strawberry looks perfect. As does your assistant. :); 27 May 2011 2:27 pm
Joy said...: What a fabulous find ... and your strawberry looks delish!!
Clever you!!
Hugs,
Joy :o); 27 May 2011 10:56 pm
peskypixies said...: yah!!!!!!! love your assistant!!!; 28 May 2011 1:40 am
Copper Patch said...: Nice work Strawb! Lovin your curves ;o)

Note: My cousins used to call their younger brother Strawb. He isn't a red head. Seems like a cool nickname to me...; 28 May 2011 2:26 am
Carolyn said...: Very interesting!

Homeowner Insurance; 31 May 2011 4:07 pm
Charlie P said...: WOW! That is VERY impressive sewing...and it's made me hungry. Mmmm...strawberry :-); 4 June 2011 9:22 pm