On Friday 20th July I went to a talk by Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective at Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft entitled How to be a Craftivist in the Art of Gentle Protest. Ditchling Museum is a beautiful venue. There was an exhibition of the work of Sister…
I am proudly Sussex (actually my heritage is Anglo-Indian so I am also proudly Secunderabad). This year I had every intention of celebrating Sussex Day but I have missed it, it was on 16th June! Oh well, next year I suppose. The event takes place on St Richard's Day, the…
I wanted to make an heirloom Christmas quilt, a cover my husband and I could put on our bed every festive season. I chose the pattern Winterkist Snowballs Quilt by Lynne Goldsworthy which I found in an issue of Fat Quarterly e-zine. I looked for a design with large uninterrupted…
There is something nostalgic about American diner pies, even though I grew up in East Sussex. I think it comes from the films I watched when I was growing up. I remember when a broke Kenickie asks Rizzo if she's got a couple of quarters so that they can split…
Melanie Makes Meringues