Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
If you’ve been following my blog lately, you might not be surprised to see my design-wall-piano is still going with the Bee theme. Today I finished the mug block, above for Sana in the Star of Africa Bee. She is making a wall hanging with the theme ‘Home is where the heart is’. I made […]
Read More…An oak tree for Brinda… A scrappy squares star and strippy heart for Dena…and some hst blocks for Nicky. I resolved to sew nothing but bee blocks until I got up to date so I have nothing to show except bee blocks! But they’re finished and it’s Friday so these are my Friday Finishes for […]
Read More…I’ve just realised it’s Thursday and I’d nearly forgotten about randomness! So two random things this week… 1. I’ve been meaning to ask someone/everyone about this email from blogger… Is this a good idea or is this how people inadvertently become noreplybloggers? 2. I had a quick look through my photos to see if I could find anything interesting […]
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I’ve been very tempted to join in with Spring Fever… But I’d thought I’d better give it a miss because for one thing I don’t have many stringy, or potentially stringy, scraps and for another thing I resolved to sew nothing but bee blocks until I get myself up-to-date (not to mention my that trip-a-long […]
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Thoughts are like butterflies. They appear out of nowhere and most of them should probably be left to pass by. But when I thought about having a piano (which I don’t really want) in my sewing room and not having a design wall (which I would like) and about having some random pieces of curtain […]
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jelly roll strips I spent my formative years standing on a table with my mother (who I should probably mention at this point was a tailor) sticking pins into me! And I learnt two things. One was to stand still. The other was to think of fabric like gold dust. We always had a scrap […]
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needle case sole space for thimble etc pincushion stuffing in toe I think I’ve lost my mojo :( I didn’t have the heart to post my Friday Finishes when everything was the same as my WIP and all I’ve accomplished since Wednesday is this slipper pincushion. One of my Bee friends loves shoes and I […]
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Welcome to another Really Random Thursday! Yesterday I came across these photos that I took in 2011. April began bright and bare-branched Gradually a greening A peeping through of spring flowers And a contentedness of ducks. Then, a few days later, I walked around the pond with Lucy, And the world was bursting into life. […]
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for Debra front I’ve go so behind with my Bees lately that I’m resolved to do nothing but Bee sewing until I’m caught up so all my WIP this week is Bee related. The house pincushion was inspired by a TV Advertisement for British Gas (which you can see here). back for Fiona Next on the list is […]
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