Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
This week I’ve been working on trying to perfect a simple cloth doll pattern… …and a request quilt. This quilt is a late birthday present for one of my son’s (I have three sons and two daughters) and he chose it because he wanted a big flag for rugby matches. This is 74″ x 94″. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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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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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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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First: Other people’s pictures [edited to remove some images from pinterest]. My currently in progress quilt is a kind of illustration of the post but on Tuesday my lap top broke – I hope I will find out later today if it’s coming back restored or beyond economic repair. Yesterday my phone broke and that […]
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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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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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