Elsie Piddock Skips In Her Sleep
This is my quilt for the Endeavourers quarterly Challenge. The theme, this time, was ‘a scene from a book…
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The Leap List
A special post for the 29th February with a Mrs Hare Story and a most practical list.
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The Empress’s New Umbrella
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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Thursday’s Child
Wool on Sundays – 159 (Ellen and the Star Dog)
To wool or not to wool…that is a question I have been pondering. Really, the hey day of Wool on Sundays was long ago before I switched from blogger to WordPress and the place for knitters on the web is clearly Ravelry. But I do find it a convenient way of separating yarn work from […]
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About Time – A Story
Here, at last, is my Summer Stitching book. First the story, then some notes. * * * * * * * THE STORY * * * * * * * NOTES For the pages in this book I used a selection of utility fabrics interlined with with Vilene Fusible Low Loft Fleece. For the cover […]
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The Trial and Error Cats
As every pet owner knows (and I’m using the word ‘owner’, here, in the loosest possible sense because we all know who really owns who), now and again, when you are not thinking too much about it, you fall quite naturally into speaking each other’s language. And so it happened the other afternoon. It was […]
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A Feast of Fools
As long liveth the merry man, they say, As doth the sorry man, and longer by a day… (Ralph Roister Doister) I wish you the very Happiest of New Years! When I posted a Merry Midwinter Mouse, I little expected that it would be Twelfth Night before I blogged again but I’m sure you know […]
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Wool on Sundays – 125 (Hodge Podge Winter Cardy)
Welcome to Wool on Sundays :) When the year is really beginning to feel its age and each day is passing by more quickly than the last, and when the nights are growing steadily longer and longer and the last of the Steam Rollers rattles and clanks away down the road to its well earned Winter rest, we […]
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