Quilting in Frankston South

My longarm quilting business is now up and running with patchworkers finding me by word of mouth. It is amazing how all patchwork ladies are such lovely people. It feels as though they become my new friends just by dropping in their pieced tops and discussing what quilting they want on their work.

One lady pieces her tops by hand and gives them to me to be quilted. I have done 5 of her lovely quilts over the past year and each time I take the finished quilt back to her, she presents me with another top to quilt! She pieces her tops in unusual blocks as she isn't limited by what can be done on a sewing machine. Her fabric choices are interesting and not your standard pinks and greens, but they are quite beautiful. It makes for creative quilting!

If any one out in e-space is interested in discussing their quilting needs with me, I can be contacted on 03 97877452. Leave a message and I'll call you back.
Cheers for now

Glenda

Lesson #6 of Learning 2.0 - RSS feeds set up

Wow! That was a big lesson. My Bloglines account is now set up and I am looking forward to being notified of any changes to FLS's Blogalogue, new quilting pictures in Flickr, breaking news on The Age website and new podcasts available from the ABC - my favourite radio broadcaster. I can see lots of uses for RSS feeds both for work and for my patchwork and quilting passion!



Here is a picture of the sort of work I do with my Gammill longarm quilting machine. I just love doing feathers and swirls!

See you soon for lesson #7.

Learning 2.0 - Thing #5 Flickr

Well, I have set up a Flickr account at last and have posted my first photo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stippledlibrarian/

Well, it's actually not MY photo. It belongs to the Frankston library's Local History collection but it is almost 100 years old and we do not know who took it, so it should be copyright free. I find it rather interesting comparing what was there almost 100 years ago and what is there now. Most of the area is now covered with buildings and shops, roads and footpaths. I wonder what will be there in another 100 years?

I can see that Flickr has many possibilities - no wonder the National Library of Australia has linked Flickr to Picture Australia!

Anyway, I'm now moving on to Lesson/Activity #6. I'm already behind, but still pushing on with the lessons.

I finished 2 quilts on my longarm machine this past week. One is a charity quilt, the other is for my mum's 80th birthday. When I have some pictures, I'll post them on Flickr for you all. (For myself really!!!)

Quilts and Learning 2.0 # 3 & # 4

Hi again fellow learners,

Joining the 2.0 web world is pretty exciting, isn't it? I'm glad making a blog isn't too difficult. I can still remember learning to use the internet in about 1995 - it took me two days to get the idea of how to use it and understand what was happening. Now we can't manage without it!

Web 2.0 life is just like a patchwork quilt really - start with one block and just keep on adding to it......

What's a stippled librarian?

The title of my blog refers to one of the techniques used in my favourite hobby, plus the career and industry I have chosen to work in.

Dictionary.com gives the following definition of stippling

stippled work: a painting, engraving, or the like, executed by means of dots or small spots.

The Librarian part of the title is what I do at work - mainly helping people find the information and library resources they need.

Together, the words Stippled Librarian seemed like a great title for a blog that will hold small spot posts on what it is like to be me! I hope you will enjoy it too. Feel free to comment.

What do teenagers find challenging???

Welcome to the Stippled Librarian! The title refers my job which tends to be a little bit of just about most jobs in the public library.

Today is Friday and we are all looking forward to the weekend after a very hectic week.

I had an interesting enquiry at the information desk in the library yesterday. I would be interested to know what you would have suggested. The enquiry floored me for a bit!

The young female teenager of about 14 or 15 asked me what could she read that was "challenging". I tried to draw out her interests, other books she had read etc in the classic reference interview but she wouldn't play ball! She insisted that she just wanted something "challenging". I decided that perhaps a mystery would be challenging and took her to a shelf of adult mystery genre fiction.

Bingo!! I couldn't believe it when she was very satisfied with that and proceded to borrow several books.

Ah the joys of reference work in a public library!