Choose Joy!
“Choose Joy” is my art quilt for The Endeavourers August challenge and the first automata and first homemade video on my blog :D
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Thursday’s Child – Curiosity
A very small story about boredom and curiosity.
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Elsie Piddock Skips In Her Sleep
This is my quilt for the Endeavourers quarterly Challenge. The theme, this time, was ‘a scene from a book…
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A Quilt About A Blog
On waking, I rarely remember my dreams but I do day dream a lot – mostly about the things I’m going to make if I ever have time – so I evolved this quilt around the byline of my blog: Dream in Colour, Create in Fabric, Thread, Yarn, Words, Whatever you have to hand…
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If Wishes Were Horses…
Today is another reveal day for The Endeavourers. How do these reveals come round so fast? Our theme this quarter was Wishes and, when that was selected by Mr Random Generator, I immediately thought of the line, ‘If wishes were horses, beggars would ride…’ but I decided to let it lie. I was hoping for […]
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Unexpected Bursts Colour
It’s been a while since I did a ‘New to Me’ post but, despite appearances, I have spent some time in the Makery this month and tried out a couple of new things. The first was inspired by something Fiona at Celtic Thistle stitches did a while ago. I say ‘inspired’ because I did this […]
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SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON
Slowly and intermittently, over this long time that I’ve been gardening, I have been pondering (and very occasionally working on) a new project and, at last, the nuts and bolts of it are starting to come together. This is a smallish double-side quit. The dark blue is a fairly improv sewing together of night-coloured scraps, […]
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A Walk in the Park
“Let us to go for a walk in the park”, she said. “We will take some bread for the ducks And jam jars to catch fishes in And, maybe, a skipping rope…” “The blackbird is sure to be singing,” she said, “And children will be flying kites, Making castles in the sandpit, And throwing […]
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The Empress’s New Umbrella
Happy Beltane, May Day or what you will! Late Spring/early Summer is my favourite time of year and for many years, I’ve had it in mind to make a sunny May Day quilt bursting with flowers and, of course, a May Pole full of ribbons and dancing children… But this is not that year! Today […]
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