Jennifer Calver

Autumn Tones Double Sided Quilt

Here is another of Patricia’s quilts. It measures 55 1/2 inches by 47 1/2 inches (141cm x 120cm). It’s created from 100% cotton fabric and wadding. Made from white snowballed

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Table Runners using fabric pictures

The ideas are endless. If you can think of it, you’ll find a way to do it. However, having said that, my mathematics isn’t brilliant, so I’ve learned it is

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The Log Cabin Block

The log cabin must surely be one of the first blocks a quilter learns. There are countless ways you can construct your quilt using the log cabin block. This was

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‘On the Run’ Table Runner

An Easy Pattern and Effective Use of Left Over 2.5-inch Strips Patricia taught me this table runner very early in my quilting journey. It’s a pattern by Carolyn Hutchinson at

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Introducing Quilting

Most humans enjoy sharing their passions, particularly with others who also love those pursuits. Though writing has been part of my journey since childhood, and I’m fortunate to be periodically

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Celebrating Steampunk and Craft Alive

A friend, Lea-Anne Martin, and I visited the recent Brisbane Craft Alive event. We planned to go to the Alternative and Goth Buy Swap and Sell afterwards, so we dressed

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Black Cat Appreciation Day October 27th

This article was first published in The Disruptive Author, by Disruptive Publishing, Deception Bay, Queensland. Who knew there was a Black Cat Appreciation Day? I didn’t. A man named Wayne

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Crazy Patch and Crumb Quilting

Some experienced quilters may shudder to hear these patchwork methods being called ‘quilting’. Call it what you like, they are fun to do, and the end product looks terrific. Crumb

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The Making of a Poet – Dylan Thomas

This article was first published in The Disruptive Author in 2021 to celebrate Poetry Month. The 1930s Great Depression rendered a substantial portion of the Welsh population jobless. However, Dylan

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Rhonda – Storyteller

Hello to you, I’m a writer. I tell people’s stories. Everyone has one.You may want your story told but feel you lack the time or skills to write it. You

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Going Down

My 2022 entry into the Regulus Press Literary Taxidermy Writing Competition. Each year Regulus Press from Seattle, USA, hosts a worldwide competition for authors. Each competition attracts about a thousand

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What did I say?

Me: Lin, did you take your tablets? Lin: Leave me alone, bitch! Me: (Absolutely gobsmacked), what did you say? It was about now Lin realised he’d said something wrong. I

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Autism and the NDIS

I’m on the Autism Spectrum – Am I entitled to NDIS Funding? Am I eligible for the NDIS?

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Autism and the NDIS

Demystifying Reasonable and Necessary and Discussing Communication Supports for Children with Autism Reasonable and necessary. You’ve heard the phrase in NDIS meetings, therapists have frequently used it and you’ve seen

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Great-Grandma Elskè Meditates in Motion

Elskè Winten began attending Tai Chi lessons when she was sixty-nine. That was thirty years ago. A month away from her one-hundredth birthday, she’s still practicing Tai Chi every week.

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Pip Coleman – She Found Her Soul At Sea

I’ve had the privilege of being interviewed by Pip Coleman, an Author, Reiki Master Coach, Advanced Angel Intuitive/Medium and Meditation Teacher. She works out of Australia’s penguin paradise, Phillip Island.

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Disclosing the Diagnosis by Anna Tullemans

ISBN 978-0-9923000-3-6 Anna Tullemans’ books on the Autism Spectrum always inform the reader from a place of personal experience (as a parent) and common sense. There has been abundant research

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I Can Fly A Plane

by Anna and Marty TullemansIllustrated by Marty TullemansISBN 9 780648 380603 Marty Tullemans has been flying since he was sixteen.  He was an Ansett pilot until the company’s demise and

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Amaira’s Fortune

Amaira’s Fortune received an Honourable Mention in the American Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition 2020. Contestants from all over the globe entered stories that had to be written between the

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Story Published in Short Fiction Break

One of my short stories has been published in the online literary magazine, Short Fiction Break. Go to https://shortfictionbreak.com/its-time/ to read my story It’s Time. Please comment if you feel

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The Omega Writers Book Fair

The Omega Writers Book Fair usually occurs each year in mid-March, though in 2021 it will be in July because of the COVID pandemic bringing a halt to proceedings. The

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