Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
I hope this post finds you safe and well. It seems that during this long blogless time, I have become an accidental, if not very skilled, miniaturist! And I’m very happy to say I finally have something to show for all those long hours of watching paint dry – the inside of Granny Square’s new […]
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The second episode about my not always successful attempt to make a 12th scale lighthouse…
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A very Merry Mid Summer (or Mid Winter) to you :) I feel I have been a long time away and there are many reasons for that. Probably the most interesting, has been the making of the lighthouse – not least that it has overtaken the Makery to to the point that it is next […]
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A very small story about boredom and curiosity.
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This is my quilt for the Endeavourers quarterly Challenge. The theme, this time, was ‘a scene from a book…
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A special post for the 29th February with a Mrs Hare Story and a most practical list.
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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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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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