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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 3 years, 5 months ago
A good idea – it does take a while to make, but can then come out every year.
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Log Cabin Christmas Card Hanger 3 years, 5 months ago
Do you still receive a lot of cards at Christmas time? One unusual solution to the dilemma of where to display them is this Christmas Card Hanger and of course you get the pleasure of making something useful…

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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Don't chop off the points! 4 years, 3 months ago
Hello – I’m Carolyn Gibbs, and my great love is traditional style patchwork and quilting – designing and making things myself, as well as enjoying antique quilts made by others.
In my “other life” I teach Che…

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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Birthday Bunting 4 years, 5 months ago
A special child needs a special present – here’s an idea for a personalised and unusual gift which will be useful for years.
This card hanger can string along a wall, or over a door, and because an alp…

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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Washing antique quilts 4 years, 5 months ago
I collect antique quilts, mostly from EBay, and some of them arrive showing plenty of evidence of a hard life. If they are in good condition structurally, but very dirty, I usually wash them. People often ask me how…

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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 4 years, 5 months ago
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Fit for an Angel 4 years, 5 months ago
John opened his eyes slowly, noticing that he had almost five minutes before the alarm clock started ringing. After almost forty five years of getting up to do the morning milking, his body clock could have…

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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, A Step forward for Tilly 4 years, 5 months ago
As Tilly wiped around the scullery sink in the light of the dying fire, she thought back over the past three years. Since coming to work for Miss Charlotte following the death of her mother, she had not only learnt…

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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, Grandmother's Flower Garden 4 years, 8 months ago
Hexagons are the easiest shape to use for patchwork using the English Paper Piecing (or mosaic patchwork) method. There are many ways hexagons can be combined into different patterns, but the most common is the…

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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 4 years, 10 months ago
This was brilliant Jude – provided some much needed hilarity and solidarity (my printer decided to do something similar just before I needed to print all the handouts for Festival of Quilts teaching – do you think they have decided to get together just to spite us?)
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Carolyn Gibbs recommended the post Not the blog I intended to write 4 years, 10 months ago
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 4 years, 10 months ago
A really useful blog, Chris – so often the same units are hiding away, and breaking the structure down makes it much easier to work out how to make it
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 4 years, 10 months ago
I like the shirt bag – specially the pocket for a shopping list!
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, North Country Quilts Exhibition at the Bowes: Part 2 Patchwork quilts 4 years, 11 months ago
The North Country Quilts exhibition at the Bowes Museum on until January 2022 contains some wonderful examples of typical British styles.
In the last post, I wrote about the Strippy Quilts. Today the topic is the…
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, North Country Quilts at the Bowes Part 1: Strippy quilts 4 years, 11 months ago
Currently, there is a wonderful exhibition of Heritage quilts on display at the Bowes Museum, which is near Barnard Castle. These are all British quilts made in the North East of England from the mid nineteenth…

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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
Thank you!
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
Thank you – I enjoyed imagining my quilts in their former existence!
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Carolyn Gibbs posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
A lovely story – quilting has indeed been a comfort in a dark world for so many this year
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Carolyn Gibbs wrote a new post, A patch of love 5 years, 5 months ago
Tilly took one last look around the cottage from the doorway. Almost all the possessions and furniture that she had grown up with had been sold to pay the debts which had built up during her mother’s last illness, l…

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3 years, 5 months ago
A lovely project tostart for next Christmas.
3 years, 5 months ago
A good idea – it does take a while to make, but can then come out every year.