UK Quilters
It is finally happening, my husband and myself are about to impart on our first whole week holiday without the children, whom are now adults. It is five past six on a cold early February morning. There is nothing but darkness outside the windows of the coach. This is not my usual place to blog…
Sometimes you feel an urge to design something different – an applique pattern or a quilting pattern perhaps – but where to start? As I keep telling everyone – I can’t draw; I never got beyond third year in art at school, let alone needlework, so I need to seek help in my book collection.…
Over the holidays and the last couple of weekends I had a bit of spare time, so went for a wander around a well known stuff shop. In our home it’s actually known as Stuff Shop, even though it sells clothing too. Mostly we shop for the stuff. It struck me as I was wandering…
I like books! I collect books – all sorts of books, not just quilting books. I probably have more gardening books than quilting ones and if you add in the books about plants in general then I have way too many (is there such a thing as ‘too many books’?). I also have magazines. In…
Once again, this show has not failed to impress me. Now – my mum had a saying: “Better to be born lucky than rich”, and I tend to say that whenever I win something! Once again, I was lucky enough to win tickets for this amazing show, and I have said that I will not…
If you are of a certain age you will have some beautiful old photo albums with small black and white photo’s carefully displayed with sticky corners. Those albums are usually looked at by me during the emotional times of my life – births, deaths and visits from relatives. Otherwise, they remain carefully stacked in a…
Have you used Pinterest before? It’s such a great tool for quilting, I promise! If you’ve not ventured into the world of pinterest before then it really is worth a look. Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool that will soon become a valuable item in your quilting toolkit! In essence you create ‘boards’ to store…
