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Welcome to Making Christmas, 2013! Two years ago I hosted a weekly link up called Making Christmas. My original inspiration for it is here. Last year Rebecca Lynne hosted a brilliant Blog Hop. This year Rebecca and I have decided to hold Making Christmas 2013, including elements of both. To join the party, all you […]
Read More…It’s cold and dark and raining and I’ve realised I won’t be here during daylight hours until it’s too late to link up with the exciting Holiday Memories Mini Quilt Competition over at Celtic Thistle Stitches so, despite my plans to show sunny garden photos of this mini quilt (18″ diameter), I’ve ended up taking indoor […]
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I’ve finished up the Gingham Squares quilt! I quilted in organic straight lines, partly because I thought it would give a softer effect but mainly because I’ve done something to my back (which I hope is slowly getting better) and I couldn’t manage all the bending involved in my usual line marking. I’m not overly […]
Read More…a flimsy finish detail Only a flimsy but at least it’s a flimsy finish! I’ve got it basted and, ideally, I’d quilt it over the weekend but I’m working 8-8 both days so I’ll have to hope for a ‘real’ finish for next Friday. I wish you a happy weekend, whatever you are doing […]
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a bowl of birds in progress… heart sewing a flimsy start Are you starting to see a theme here? No progress on anything else this week but I’m home today so maybe a finish by Friday… What have you been working on this week? Happy Sewing! Janine @ Rainbow Hare
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Are you going to enter the Holiday Memories Quilt competition over at Celtic Thistle Stitches? I’ve been trying to get some stitching finished to make a cushion for it but I’m suspecting I’ll never get it finished so I thought I’d change tack. And I’ve been struggling because, although I loved the holiday season this […]
Read More…Thanks to a great tute by Michelle at The Vintage Apple, I’ve embedded a pin – yay! And who wouldn’t want to be a Unicorn? Since finishing my Unicorn Days quilt I seem to have been noticing unicorns everywhere. We have them on some of our £1 coins and our passports… Wikipedia And you can hardly walk down […]
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Speak of the spring, and foison of the year, The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear; (Shakespeare Sonnet 53) September. Autumn. The evenings draw in and the Mornings are cool and misty. But in the garden it’s a time of abundance. And there’s an exuberance of rich colours – […]
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