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Christine Hutchins recommended the post The Gower 6 years, 4 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Adventures of an Inexperienced Quilter – HST Rulers 6 years, 4 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Great idea at the time! 6 years, 4 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Things you ignore and regret later 6 years, 4 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post So You Want to Get a Project in BP&Q Magazine? 6 years, 4 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Felices Navidad! 6 years, 4 months ago
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Sew Easy Cutting Mats 6 years, 5 months ago
Sew Easy has added four new cutting mats to their ever popular range. Featuring a soft yet stable surface and clear metric and imperial measurements and grid markings, these mats are extremely durable and…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Stitchers Christmas 6 years, 5 months ago
[Author Unknown]
Twas the night before Christmas, and, oh, I was weary.
My stitching unfinished, my eyes getting bleary.
The stockings weren’t finished, the chimney was bare.
And I knew that morning s…
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Such fun!
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Love it!
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Lovely poem!
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Aww!
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Christine Hutchins wrote a new post, A Little Bit Controversial…perhapsThe Bloggerati Song Challenge 6 years, 5 months ago
I really liked the song title I was given all those months ago, when I thought the challenge and idea was something I could get my teeth into. After all, I knew I had the perfect fabric somewhere in my stash. As soon…
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I love that you used sweet wrappers, all very exciting using different ‘fabrics’. Brilliant interpretation
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Thank you Jane! It takes a bit of a ‘leap of faith’ to use sweet wrappers in something that you are going to sew. I was concerned that the sewing may rip the papers, but sometimes you just have to go for it!
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Great interpretation and execution!!! Amazing how quickly volunteers appear when sweets are involved!
PS. No wonder I called you Teresa when you even mimic her blog titles LOL.-
Thank you Nina! Yes, Teresa was in my mind when I thought about the title – I couldn’t think of anything better as a title!
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Well my first guess was Sweets for my Sweet, but I soon realised that was wrong. What an incredible piece this is!
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Thank you Maggie! Some members of my quilt group thought Sweets for my Sweet as well.
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Totally amazing, so much creativity!
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Thank you Teresa – your blog titles inspired my blog title – I couldn’t think of a better title, as I realised that several parts of my quilt could / would be controversial. When I include religion / religious symbols in my quilting, I am aware that it could cause offence somewhere…this quilt almost sort of did that at our quilting group, where one of our members hates the song with a vengeance (mind you, we also tease her about parsnips, mashed carrot and swede – she can’t stand swede, junket…amongst other things – it makes our group Christmas dinners quite entertaining! She does tease me about my stash…)
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You have not seen my Merry Sproutmass …..coming soon 30th Dec to a blog page near you!
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I thought Sweets for My Sweet too, but love this
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Thank you Candy – it was fun making it, if a little nerve wracking, wondering how it would go down with others…I have just about got to the stage where as long as I like it, it is fine. I also get to thinking that it is a process, that whatever happens, however it turns out, it is something that was just waiting to come out, and has something to say – that it is another step on the journey.
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Upstash, Downstash, Restash, Destash 6 years, 5 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Under Pressure 6 years, 5 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Song Title Challenge—- Oliver’s Army 6 years, 5 months ago
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post N.S.F.W. (Not Sewn For Weeks) Strike A Pose 6 years, 5 months ago
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, A quilting journey 6 years, 5 months ago
Ok, so its not for all of us patchworkers and quilters – I get that – but ever since I started quilting I have really enjoyed the piecing but not happy with my quilting efforts. Tugging large quilts through a smal…
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That’s my ultimate dream, glad you are enjoying it
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Such a lovely progression. My ultimate dream, too. I love those giant circles. Inspiring!
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Wow…lucky you..x
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A lovely description of perseverance. Enjoy.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The First Quilter I Ever Knew 6 years, 5 months ago
We asked Margaret Attfield, who won the final Janome M100 QDC given away this year about her quilting journey .. in her own words:
I think my quilting journey really began with fashion. From a very early age, I…
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Lovely memories and story and you were not the only baby to be left outside a shop in their pram. I was left outside the International Food Store in Horley in a brand new Silver Cross pram one afternoon. She only remembered when my father came home from work in the evening & they both walked a mile into town to hopefully retrieve me. In my mother’s defence I had only been adopted a few days before so having a new baby could easily be forgotten, unlike a birth mother who had carried and given birth to a child. I was still there in my pram luckily, but crying with gusto because I was hungry. I learnt to sew with my mother on a Singer Treadle machine and then in the late 1960’s she got a green Bernina. I had a Sindy and a Tressy doll so every time she made me a new dress they got one too from the off cuts. I did not get my own sewing machine until the 1970’s when I left home and used it to make curtains, cushions & clothes.
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That is a lovely story. I take my hat off to your mum; those dolls are so fiddly!
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Great blog Margaret…first of many!
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Thank, Lyn!
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Gosh, your Blog brings back memories! I was, obviously, not the only one to leave a new baby outside the shops!! -only be to safely ‘rescued’ half an hour later. Your account of learning to sew at your Mum’s side was like me too but it was my Nan and not my Mum. Thank you for sharing Margaret. xx
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Thank you Sue.
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Back to 1967 – Pop Pickers 6 years, 6 months ago
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The Grenfell Quilt Hanging 6 years, 6 months ago
Many of you will recall the incredible events at Grenfell, and the quilts that were created in such a short time to help those who suffered. But life and events continue and Tuesday and the community group she is w…
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What a very poignant and sensitive piece about a tragedy we all felt and a community we all belong to. And when people feel unheard, as so many do,, a really powerful reminder that we are stronger when we are together.
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Maggie – this is true and is wonderful the way quilting reaches out and engages with so many. I hope we can show the completed project when it reaches that stage too.
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Sylvia Thank you for featuring our Quilt in this wonderful site. Sharing our story & supporting our aim to bring more awareness to our cause is much appreciated
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Christine Hutchins recommended the post Christmas Candle Wreath 6 years, 6 months ago
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