Like most of us, I’m sure, I read various blogs. And while we have been staying at Taupo I was kindly invited to the home of two very special quilting bloggers. Peggy and Linda warmly welcomed us inside, and it was so nice to put faces to names.
Peggy and Linda
These lovely ladies are sisters, and both share a passion for quilting, taking me on a tour through their home to see various quilts hanging up. Peggy loves Crazy Patch quilting and showed me this beauty full of lace, fancy stitching, baubles and beads. It was finished off with a scalloped border.
Peggy’s crazy patch quilt
Selection of Healing Heart blocks, waiting to be made up
Linda is a long arm quilting machine maestro and is currently awaiting delivery of her new machine. All machine quilting is done free-hand, no computerised or follow-the-line patterns for this expert. Here she is showing some of her designs used in this quilt.
Linda with her star quilt
On the design wall
I had a lovely time speaking “quilt talk”, was shown the trick on how to do “magic binding”, so will certainly try that when I return home. We met two of the cats, and spotted the resident chickens out in the yard. Kaiser is a big boy, and would make mincemeat of our dainty little Birman Muffy, who is about a quarter of his size. Luckily she was sound asleep back in the caravan.
Kaiser and companion.
Thanks ladies, it was so nice to meet a couple more friendly quilt bloggers. – it really made my morning! Linda’s blog is Razzle Dazzle Quilter, and Peggy’s blog is Kiwi Klippings. Do pop over and have a look.
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