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The Singing Sunflower Jewellery Roll! Two pockets 7 1/2″ x 7″ and one pocket 7 1/2″ x 14″ After this post on Friday, I decided I”d better just bite the bullet, take it apart, put in the forgotten lining and sew it back up again. before the fix after the fix And this time it […]
Read More… Several months ago I posted a wall hanging to Laura. But unfortunately it has yet to reach her. We think it might be lost up a mountain in Austria or has possibly been eaten by a goat or something :o( so I decided to make Laura a jewellery roll (also useful for keeping a variety of other […]
Read More…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 […]
Read More…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 […]
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The Good… My MIL gave me a cheque for my birthday and I ordered some fabrics from Hawthorne Threads. At last they have arrived and they are beautiful! The bad… Although a squishy is always a good thing… The customs charges went quite a way towards defeating the point of ordering from the […]
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I love Really Random Thursdays and all week I seem to notice things that strike me as perfect for a RRT post but then, somehow, on Thursdays my mind goes blank and I forget whatever I was going to write about. So, today, I thought I’d share part of a post from a blog I […]
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This week I’ve finished a Bee Block – Winged Square for Jess using a tutorial by Amy at During Quiet Time and Jess’ colour choices. I adore this block! And I added the sea bed, bottom layer to this for Jan. I also finished a small wall hanging – Eat, Sleep, Sew! And this is what […]
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For my second entry in the Bloggers Quilt Festival, I really wanted to enter my Tradewinds Quilt, which I made around Christmas as a gift for my eldest daughter. But, unfortunately, I only had inside, Winter photos, which really didn’t do justice to the beautiful fabrics. 1. Trade Winds Finished Rolled, 2. Trade Winds Finished, 3. […]
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Unfortunately, I finished this seconds too late to link up with Le Challenge! It began simply enough enough with some sketches… And an exciting new applique technique I read about on Karen’s blog. I found it was much less clunky than my usual freezer paper efforts and you can get an idea from the wings… …but […]
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