Chequerboard goes to the Quilt Festival

  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 […]

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scrappy yin yang

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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Ruby goes to the Festival!

Have you linked up with the festival of half square triangles | linky party at Canoe Ridge Creations? I was wondering what I could make by Sunday (the closing date) and I realised I made this within the last six months and it is at least 75% hsts…   Ruby Butterfly   …so I’m off to link up!

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Something New

It seems that each Wednesday, when I look at my WIP, I have less and less to show for a week’s sewing! ————————————————————– Here’s my WIP report for this week: No progress: Unicorn Stars Quilt Flora Quilt Started: 1 Finished: 1 This week’s stats: Completed projects – 1 New projects – 1 Currently in progress […]

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From the Heart…

Last Friday I posted A Question? My question was about this… … and I didn’t say anything else about it because I didn’t want to influence the response at all. And I would really like to thank everyone who replied. I so much appreciate the thoughtfulness and consideration that went into all of your responses. […]

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A Question?

I’ve just had a virtually blog free week but not a sewing free one. This is what I’ve been working on and I would love to hear any really honest views on what vibes this sends out. By that I mean I don’t want you to be polite or to try to be nice. But […]

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Scrap Attack Finish!

I’ve finished my first scrap quilt! I made this Fugly Scrap quilt for the The Scrap Attack Quilt-Along at Stitched in Colour. It finishes at 42 inches square and apart from a couple of Jelly Roll strips this was made entirely from scraps and this was all that I had left over… For the binding […]

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