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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Klosjes progress

In spite of a few distractions lately, I have finally made some progress on my klosjes quilt. I have joined 9 blocks for the centre, and put a border round them. This is 19 inch square (unfinished) so far.
I've started on the next border... these little ones are 3 1/4 inch finished. Took me a bit to get them right as the size I wanted them meant I was using a trapezoid rather than a square for the spools - in other words, a few teething problems, reverse sewing and a few pieces of graph paper! However I am happy with them now, so here's a peek at them—

I mentioned 'distractions' at the beginning of this post. ED is home for a bit as she has a break between semesters. A while ago a friend, who was moving to Australia, gave me his coffee machine!! It used to sit in the corner of his blacksmithing shed and our routine was to have a delicious coffee before we began shoeing the horses (and often one when we had finished too!). I used to rave that his coffee was the best I'd ever tasted so he thought of me when he was preparing to leave and cleaning out his shed. I soon discovered it was the maker, not the machine, that makes the good coffee, so the machine has sat on the bench largely untouched since it arrived here. This is a shot of the corner of the kitchen after ED had a play yesterday.....As you can see, lots of experimenting and little drinking of the results!! We WILL get it right...one day!!
happy sewing everyone.


7 comments:

  1. Oh coffee and spools...what more could a gal ask for!

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  2. Your spools looks great Raewyn...good luck with the coffee..

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  3. Love your klosjes Raewyn ... and as far as the coffee goes just let us know when you want some "outside tasters" for testing purposes!!

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  4. Your klosjes are coming together nicly. I ahve always wanted to them but have too many UFO's now.

    I'm sure you will get the coffee making right, keep trying.

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  5. Love what you are doing with your klosjes ....... my DH makes coffee at our place, I make a mess every time and it is far safer and cleaner when he does it. Recently, learned a tip about using crushed a 1/4 tsp. egg shells mixed in with the coffee grounds. The coffee comes out smooth tasting.

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  6. Love the border around your Klosjes!

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