Welcome to MAKING CHRISTMAS, 2013, WEEK 8. Thank you, again, to everyone who is joining in and linking up with making Christmas. Only 25 sewing days to go until Christmas – here at least. Depending where you are in the world Santa might be paying you a visit even sooner! The Pinterest board gets more and more inspiring […]

Welcome to MAKING CHRISTMAS, 2013, WEEK 3.  Thank You to everyone who linked up last week. I’ve really enjoyed seeing what everyone has been making. Since Rebecca’s halloween inspiration last week, there has been lots of Halloween making going on – both beautiful and scary – so I thought I’d feature a few fun Halloween projects this week. To […]

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 […]

This weekend I was hoping to do something with this… Or make some more of these… Or these… Or, at very least, get a bit more of this finished. I actually ended up not doing any of the above – but I did make a shop. For as long as I can remember (long before […]

Lucy  and I decided to Bear Paw together with a view to making quilts over the next year and we’d love you to bear with us. You can pick up a badge here or join the flickr group. I’m not sooo enthusiastic about this trial block but it does look better in real life than this […]

My post the other day mentioned that making a red and white bear paw quilt has been on my ‘to do’ list for years. After a couple of emails back and forth, Lucy and I decided to we’d both make one over a year. I’m going to be making traditional 14″ blocks and Lucy is […]

If you’ve been following my blog lately, you might not be surprised to see my design-wall-piano is still going with the Bee theme. Today I finished the mug block, above for Sana in the Star of Africa Bee. She is making a wall hanging with the theme ‘Home is where the heart is’. I made […]

Follow my blog with Bloglovin A bizarre short post. I’m trying out bloglovin as, apparently google reader is on the way out. Publishing a post with this link is, it seems, part of the process to claim my blog… My Giveaway Party Winner is HERE And my my Friday Finishes are HERE Happy Friday! Janine @ Rainbow […]