…and is moving into some new work. One technical thing that had bugged me was that I found with one of the leathers I plan to be using a fair bit, the machine stitching was (a) obtrusive IMHO but also (b) did not glide evenly under the machine foot anyway, and I was getting some skipped stitches – on both my bernina 1230 in Aus and my 1008 here. I had some helpful advice re a roller foot from a fellow quilter in WA, and I will look for one some time when I am a bit closer to the nearest Bernina dealer ( at this it is point Venezuela – ) The only satisfactory solution has been to admit the leather bits need to be applied by hand which can be done by the stitch coming up from behind, taking in some but not all thickness of the leather, and going back into the fabric again. I now understand that positioned pieces can be held down temporarily for compositional process using pins and then safelty pins from behind, too, while all the pieces are all being applied. There might be instruction books around for this kind of thing but I don’t have them! Just as I couldn’t find any instruction on how to make a gold nugget for a communal quilt project, using very shiny gold lame, brown acrylic paint painted on in the pattterns of the indentations to the nugget which were quilted into as well, and then the whole shape was formed into a low relief ‘bagged quilt’, really, althoughI had never heard of that term. The edges were sitched onto the backing and it was/is somewhere still probably, a successful creation. Anyone with “Down Under Quilts” #1 premier issue, March 1988 , will find an article with a good size illustration in the centrefold pages – interesting for someone who at the time had no notion of ever taking up quiltmaking. I have only just discovered Treasure Gold and Treasure Silver metallic waxes, and have worked out under what circs they need fixing, or leaving to mature in the air.