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Welcome to Week 7 of the Christmas 18 QAL and here is Block 6 …. This week we are going to make flying geese with the 4 at a time no waste method. This method really changed how I viewed flying geese and is now my go to method. This block is available as a…
Welcome to Week 6 of the Christmas 18 QAL and here is Block 5 …. This week is about half rectangle triangles (HRTs) and is a quick an easy block to make up. There is still time to take part so if you do want to make the whole quilt and join in the fun…
From time to time things pop up in the Quilty Charity World. Lemn Sissay is a brilliant poet, and Maggie Lloyd Jones is working with him to support the Care Leavers Christmas Dinners he has started a movement about with a donation of as many quilts as possible to wrap the Care Leavers up with…
Welcome to Week 5 of the Christmas 18 QAL and here is Block 4 …. Block 4 of the cut&alter Christmas 18 QAL is released today and, if you have signed up, will be in your inbox shortly. This week’s block takes the half square triangles (HSTs) we have been perfecting over the first 3…
Being part of the Bloggerati* I was offered some Scandinavian inspired Christmas fabrics to try out. Below are a few of the designs available in the latest Scandi 2018 range, by Makower. The designs are available in red and grey, and there are also a few solid-ish ‘linen texture’ prints to match. I was sent a…
Christmas Is Coming – The Geese Are Getting Fat; although before we get there, it is my birthday. It is around this time of year (the start of a new school year, and just before my birthday) that I start to feel a bit maudlin; I’m not sure whether it is the nights drawing in,…
UKQU are doing a second mini quilt swap and I have been lucky enough to have been asked to be a Swap Mumma. This involves looking after a group of swappers, helping and guiding them and offering support and reassurance when they are unsure of how to proceed. During the course of both blogging and…
– the making of a gift calendar for monster-loving kids or the Grinch of the family Kids love monsters, but we probably all know someone who acts like a Grinch, scorning everything about Christmas, but still wanting to eat the chocolates and get the presents. As that could just about describe me, I decided to…
Welcome to Week 4 of the Christmas 18 QAL and here is Block 3 …. Block 3 of the cut&alter Christmas 18 QAL is released today and, if you have signed up, will be in your inbox shortly. We will be reinforcing the learning we have done on how to make 8 HSTs at a…
About 3 years ago a very good friend gave me a birthday gift wrapped in a piece of beautiful cotton fabric instead of paper. I was over the moon with the fabric and the thoughtfulness of it and little did I realise at the time that this is known as the traditional Japanese art of…
I just LOVE Christmas… The colors, the joy, the cosyness at home, my christmastree with all the beautiful souvenirs from our holidays, I just love it all. It starts itching when I change my kitchen curtains from orange-autumn colours to checkered red and white… I have this very simple lapquilt made from squares; one side…
I have, over the past few years found the quickest way to put together the top of an advent calendar due to having to create them in August/September ready for display in the shop for Christmas. It’s not really a job I enjoy so finding the quickest way was a must and doing it differently…
