It’s taken a while after moving to get back into a routine for making.  The bonus is that I have a sewing room at home as well as the studio.  It’s a great distraction from other things I should be doing.  Gettin…

As years go by, it is so easy to just do the things we always do.  During one of my community classes, one of my students asked me to show her how to do mitred corners on the borders of her quilt.  It made me r…

I love this time of year.  Every morning on my way to work, I drive past a small wood.  Through the trees, as I go up the hill, I can spy the bluebells.  As I go up round the corner, the wood just opens up and th…

Over the last couple of years, we have missed so many opportunities for meeting up with friends and others that share our crafting interests.  It’s been especially hard to do this internationally but now, with the…

We are always looking for quicker ways to create our quilts.  I can remember when I first started my quilting journey, making one half square triangle was a great accomplishment.  Then came two at a time, four at a t…

Welcome to crazy town! Well, more like crazy world right now eh? But all is not lost, you now have 12 weeks to get up to date on all those UFO’s, WIP’s and all the niggling little jobs around the house that you kee…

Back in the summer, when I had time to play with fabric, I had the idea of making a small lunch bag using wipe clean fabric. I knew I could buy oilcloth to make one, but that would have been too easy.  I thought…

Recently I was exited to be able to join what was the second (somewhat delayed) annual retreat for an intrepid group of quilters collectively known as ‘Lady Chattey’s Quilt Lovers’. Thirteen ladies travelled to Denha…

Repair, Reuse, Recycle, Renew
Good quality towels tend to come at a price, especially if you are looking at bath sheets. You want them to last a long time and quite often, the binding on the edging starts to fray…

I was sent this gorgeous pack of Güttermann 100% cotton 30 weight thread to review. This thread is slightly thicker than the thread you would use for quilt piecing, making it perfect for hand or machine quilting, as…

When it came to opening up the studio to the public, I thought most people would be having concerns about safety with regard to Covid 19, so I was a bit surprised to be asked about how I recycle.  After the recent…

I don’t know about you, but when I see places or things named after a person, I like to know who it is.  When I started working at a campus at work, one of the wings is named after a man, but no one can tell me who…