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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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I was wondering about what to enter into the Quilt Festival at Amy’s Creative Side and I suddenly remembered my ‘old man and the sea’ wall hanging. Unfortunately, I only have dull Winter photos because I made it in December and gave it to my son, who lives by the sea in Portsmouth. I’ve decided […]
Read More…Yesterday, I finished Cindy’s block and that means I’m technically no longer behind in the bees – yay! But not for long unless I get this month’s three done soon. I was too tired to concentrate on another bee block, though, and I noticed my box of solid scraps was looking very blue so I […]
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