I made this for a magazine but it didn’t get published so I thought you guys might want it instead… mine’s another addition to the mini quilt wall that hasn’t happened yet! This uses a special ruler from Creative Grids. A great video on how to use the ruler can be found on YouTube HERE. You [...]
April 11, 2013 – 10:15 am
I’ve been quite lazy. Starting a new job and the extra hours I’ve lost in my day due to car sharing and coming home late has eaten dramatically into my evening which has made me too tired for any sewing time as I’m not getting home until almost two hours later than I used to [...]
I don’t know if you’ve noticed that button over to the right of my blog over the last few months? Go on, click it, it takes you here…. The Sewing Directory is run by the lovely and knowledgeable Fiona (and helped by Beth) and allows you to find all sorts of sewing businesses in one [...]
I love Eleanor Grosch’s Mixteca line. These came for me yesterday (I know I’m not spending but I had a 20% off voucher for Pink Castle Fabrics…) and they will be used for something for ME too as I think these are my favourite fabrics ever, ever. I’m thinking of making a skirt from the [...]
Firstly, my OH has solved the wonky Wallander block problem. It seems to be that if I number the pieces differently and put all the corners on at the end it lines up beautifully, look: However I am still needing to paper piece 100 of these in total which is harder than I thought. I’ve [...]
March 29, 2013 – 10:52 am
I think I’m missing something- possibly quite obvious- here and I need your help if you can! You know how I’ve been battling with half rectangle triangles? Well I reattempted them again, prepared to trim them down and make them bigger from the start. This is how my first Wallander block (of 100 I might [...]
I’ve not done a giveaway for a while and as luck would have it, I got an extra copy of the issue of Popular Patchwork wot has my cushion in it in the post this week. So if anyone wants it, please leave a comment, just one please and I’ll pick someone at midday GMT [...]
I started the week ill and today I was off work. So whilst I was on the sofa watching a film, trying not to move too much because I felt so weak and my brain was doing funny things, I stitched the skinny binding onto my Rain Deer Limbo quilt. Ta da! You may remember [...]
Exciting times, exciting times! I entered a colour palette competition over on The Intrepid Thread blog. You had to use a photo to generate a colour palette and the prize is fabrics to match that palette. Well I’ve been shortlisted to the final 4! ARGGHH! Here’s my palette, the photo is one I took a [...]
March 22, 2013 – 10:10 am
I’ve had a look through my bookshelf and I’ve got some books on there I’ve never read and some very lightly used that I’m not likely to use again. Looking at my Amazon wishlist, there’s quite a lot of “future” books on there, so it’s about time I had a bit of a clearout, and [...]
