I've had an idea for a business, it's something I could consider setting up when I've retired. It needs a catchier name but for now I am calling it "Finishing Other People's Projects". All those projects started with the best of intention now languishing in plastic bags in cupboards and…
Over the years I accumulated a large stash of fabric with cake, dessert, pastry, teapot, teacup and coffee pot motifs. Material so lovely that I didn't want to use it and I just occasionally got out to look at. However last year I thought to myself I must actually use…
I wanted to make a quilt for my youngest son's 18th birthday as I had for his elder brother a couple of years ago. I decided to make a t-shirt quilt using his old school uniforms from his infant, junior and senior schools and also some summer camp t-shirts. I used…
Selvage or selvedge? I think it depends on whether you speak British or American English. A selvage is an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it unravelling. The selvage is not needed in quilt making and is removed, however, they can be very pretty. The printing on…
It's very satisfying, I've completed a whole bed quilt. As this quilt is a Christmas present I feel that I am ahead of myself. It's made of pink and blue hexagons using the English paper piecing technique. Last year I asked a fellow quiltmaker on Instagram what the acronym EPP…
Look at the ingenuity of my sons! Forced to live in a building site they have fashioned entertainment out of things they've found lying around; a piece of old chipboard, some old wood, gaffer tape all balanced on two dining room chairs. Hey Presto, it's a table tennis table!As lovely…
My friend Pam from Seven Sisters Quilt Group gave me some adorable Holly Hobbie fabric. She gave me stacks of fantastic fabric when she had a giant clearout recently. I think it might be from the 1970s, along with my Sweet April and Tiny Tears dolls I had a Holly…
I made this log cabin lap quilt for a friend of mine who is a writer. She loves "Little House on the Prairie" and anything to do with pioneer days and I know she has always wanted a quilt. I used fabric from my stash and backed it with some…
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