A meeting, a girl and a bird

On Friday I met up with the lovely Nicky from Mrs Sew and Sow in Lewes. We had tea, looked around an eclectic assortment of antique shops and enjoyed some uninterrupted browsing in The Patchwork Dog and Basket – no husbands or children asking “Haven’t you finished yet?”!!! Unfortunately neither of us took a working camera but if […]

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LITTLE THINGS

This is a post about small projects A little pin cushion made from a small piece of blackwork stitched in variegated blue/purple thread and a kona charm square.   And my other finish this week was these three sewing cases, blogged in my last post. They are embellished with buttons but no hand stitching, except the binding.

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Something Different

How is your WIP this week? I’ve had some small gifts on my to do list for a long time and I’ve finally decided to make these… Then I looked at my WIP list and I just felt like making something completely different so I started this doll. Hopefully by the next time you see […]

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TGIFF

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 […]

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Please vote for me!!!

The time has come to head over to Jenna at Sew Happy Geek and vote for your favourite PLAY pick-a-card mini quilt  The voting runs from today – 29th of May – until 1st June. All the entries are wonderful but of course I would LOVE you to vote for my Ten of Diamonds Kite!!! 13″ x 19″ […]

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Chequerboard goes to the Quilt Festival

  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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Please Pick a Card!

It’s the eleventh hour! The eleventh hour, that is to join the  PLAY Mini Quilt Competition with Jenna at Sew Happy Geek. If you click on the button below you will find the rules and a list of fab prizes. I saw this competition a while ago and I’ve been following along with Jenna’s quilt, which […]

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The Power of Crowds

This blackbird, who has a nest in one of our hedges, has been happily singing in the rain a lot lately! But bad gardening weather is good sewing weather and I have an unexpected finish this week! It’s going to be my May entry for the Color Palette Challenge – and it’s finished two weeks early […]

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Spiralling Star

As you’ll know if you are a regular visitor to my blog, I am very committed to trying new things so I love TNT with Melissa Cory at Happy Quilting. And this week, for the first time, I attempted foundation piecing and making a spiral quilt. I have always been enthralled by both spiral designs […]

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