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We’ve had some lovely days in the last couple of weeks… This cow was very keen to have her photo taken! …but today isn’t one of them! The wind and I rarely see eye to eye when it comes to taking pictures of quilts and today we are, apparently, having gusts of 70-80mph so I’m not […]
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The time has come to head over to Jenna at Sew Happy Geek and vote for your favourite PLAY pick-a-card mini quilt The voting runs from today – 29th of May – until 1st June. All the entries are wonderful but of course I would LOVE you to vote for my Ten of Diamonds Kite!!! 13″ x 19″ […]
Read More…As I’m sure you know it’s the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival over at Amy’s Creative Side. It’s wonderful to see the huge variety of quilts that have been entered and the talent in quilt-blogland is sooooo inspiring! This is my offering. I made it last Autumn. It was my was my first ‘real’ quilt and, although […]
Read More…It’s the eleventh hour! The eleventh hour, that is to join the PLAY Mini Quilt Competition with Jenna at Sew Happy Geek. If you click on the button below you will find the rules and a list of fab prizes. I saw this competition a while ago and I’ve been following along with Jenna’s quilt, which […]
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This blackbird, who has a nest in one of our hedges, has been happily singing in the rain a lot lately! But bad gardening weather is good sewing weather and I have an unexpected finish this week! It’s going to be my May entry for the Color Palette Challenge – and it’s finished two weeks early […]
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As you’ll know if you are a regular visitor to my blog, I am very committed to trying new things so I love TNT with Melissa Cory at Happy Quilting. And this week, for the first time, I attempted foundation piecing and making a spiral quilt. I have always been enthralled by both spiral designs […]
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This is my submission piece for the April Color Palette Challenge. scrappy yin yang made from 1 inch squares This was the colour palette, selected by Vicki Welsh from Field Trips in Fibre and I did find these colours very challenging! For some reason the brown/orange combination is way outside my comfort zone. I thought I’d […]
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This month’s colour for the Colour My World Challenge with M-R at Quilt Matters is yellow, which I expected would be quite seasonal. Here are some very yellow photos I took in April last year… April in Pictures 2011 …but what has happened to Spring this year? I took these two photos yesterday… April 2012 […]
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Yesterday I finally finished piecing the top of my Happy Star/Pernilla’s Parrots picnic rug quilt and I tried to take a picture – but the wind had other ideas! I don’t know why it looks so giant, compared to Lucy here – it’s 65 inches square. Is that big enough or should I be adding […]
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