Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
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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So here we are again in apple time and the year heaves itself round another turn. And how did that happen? Barely a knit knitted, barely a stitch stitched. They say the older you get, the faster time flies. But surely I’m not suddenly aged so fast that a whole year has sped by in […]
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Back in January, did you have a word for 2019? I actually chose a word but I didn’t ever blog about it. That was partly because we had lots of relations visiting and I didn’t get around to it but it was also because I kept coming upon the idea that that public goal setting […]
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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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“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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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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FEBRUARY Mercifully short of days, February full of greys, Grey cloud, grey sky, grey land, grey sea, Grey birds, grey fish, grey you, grey me. O whatever could be drearier! How I long for something cheerier… SO TODAY WE WILL LIVE IN COLOUR Today is the Reveal Day for the Endeavourers Art Quilt Group and […]
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Here, at last, is my Summer Stitching book. First the story, then some notes. * * * * * * * THE STORY * * * * * * * NOTES For the pages in this book I used a selection of utility fabrics interlined with with Vilene Fusible Low Loft Fleece. For the cover […]
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