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A beautiful historic treasure in Biggs, California, is restored by Robert and Wanda Nevins and has become a venue for weddings, anniversaries, parties and more. The Victorian Rose was built by the Hastings family of Biggs. Mr. Hastings was a prominent businessman with connections to big energy companies. The home stands as a testament to the era in which it was built. Intricate details, beautiful lighting and original artwork, photographs and some furniture from the original owners remain.
No - I'm not being rude. #finishit2014 is the hashtag people over on Instagram are using to categorise the projects they are going to try to finish off in 2014.
Hi. My name is Michelle and I'm a startaholic. I love to start quilts. I don't so much like to finish them, not because I don't like them, but because OOH SHINY I MUST MAKE THAT NEW THING AND RIGHT NOW.
I've decided to bring them out one by one, state where I am up to, and what I need to do to finish it.
The first unfinished quilt off the blocks is my Lotta Hexies quilt. This is entirely English paper pieced using the Lotta Jansdotter fabric I bought at Purl Soho in New York in October 2011. It consists of 3 inch hexagons and diamonds and I probably have three-quarters of it pieced.
I have a lot more to go on it though - besides the piecing. I'm appliquéing (also by hand) the sides to two strips of the grey homespun to give it a bit more width, and to break the mash of grey and yellow and ochre up a bit. And then I thought I might, you know, quilt it myself (by machine - I'm not that silly).
So the aim is to have this on my bed, quilted and bound, by the end of the Australian summer. That will be heaps of time, if you don't count the 10 hours a day I am currently doing house renovations and the fact I don't have a sewing room and can't find the grey homespun fabric as it has been packed in a box somewhere.
Sewer, quilter, crocheter, photographer. Gardener, cook, swimmer, casual cyclist. I believe that food always tastes better in vintage Pyrex.