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If you have read my quilting blog or follow me on Instagram you will know how much I love scraps and using them for scrap quilts, you will also know how much I love Tula Pink and that every single tiny piece gets saved ‘just in case’ and that curating fabric pulls for quilts is…
Our book for April 2021 is called Assault and Batting and it was written by Tess Rothery. When her mother Laura dies, Taylor Quinn returns to the family home to step into her shoes including running a quilt shop and look after her teenage sister. The police have written off Laura’s death as an accident…
Disappearing 9 Patch Back in 2019 I wrote a blog on how I had used a charm pack, and I thought that it could be an idea to do a series on this subject. After all, there are so many ways to use charm packs – and other pre-cut selections, and there are so many…
Spaniard César Manrique was born 24 April 1919 in Arrecife, a village on the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Manrique was an artist, sculptor, architect and activist and, during the Spanish Civil War, he was a volunteer in the artillery unit on Franco’s side. Manrique attended the University of La Laguna to study architecture, but after…
“The journey to college is a rite of passage we mark as a joyous occasion, one we celebrate by buying luggage and books on how to build a fulfilling life. But really, if you ask any mother, she’ll tell you that deep down, we want to mark it as a loss, a funeral of sorts”…
Don’t deny it, we all have them, those unfinished quilt projects, those part made blocks, quilts and orphan blocks and what do we do with them? If you’re like me you just stick them in a box or bag and forget about them until, months, years later, you’re looking for that piece of fabric that…
Art is not my strong point but give me a pile of orphan blocks and I find that creative streak just trying to get out. My first foray into making a quilt top out of random orphan blocks was at the first ever Bloggerati retreat in November 2018. All my plans for the weekend were…
Last month I burbled on about the Rail Fence design and how different it could look if you used strips of different widths instead of the usual equal ones. But I couldn’t just leave it there and went on with my playing around. What if, I thought, I added squares to the corners? All corners?…
A bit later than I’d planned, but here is the book for February 2021. Forget me Knot, by Mary Marks Forget me Knots is the is the first book in a series of eight written by Mary Marks. They are all available as eBook, audio book and printed (you may need to look for second…
There are thousands upon thousands of envelopes used every day, for business and personal use and a vast array of envelopes of every colour and size. They’ve certainly come a long way since they were first used as earliest records say that the Ancient Chinese and the Babylonian’s used clay to protect messages. Around 2,000…
Long story short.. well probably not, ……. ok definitely not, but I do sometimes at least try, and then go off on one of my bonkers meanders. This one is probably one of the most bizarre ones to date, and believe me that takes some doing! Topics in no particular order include …… Poppies, Face…
I have been quilting for around 10 years and have made hundreds of keepsake quilts, but I still consider myself an intermediate quilter with lots more to learn. In January 2019 I decided to challenge myself to learn some new techniques and attempt my first quilt along. I was sure I could easily put an…
Kerry Keeble
Nina
Christine Hutchins
Sue Burford
Carol Lightburn
Chris Franses
Teresa Barrow
Katie done