I’m getting in just in the nick of time to participate in this… The last day to link up with Geta is today! Click the button above to read the other posts with tips from other quilters. Here are mine, hopefully something here will be useful to somebody! The idea is we discuss successes and [...]
Day before yesterday I posted off my Covert Robin gift…. Inspired by the vast amount that were swapped at the FQ retreat last year and the fact I had never actually made one, I decided to make an organiser from the Zakka book. I must admit I didn’t really enjoy it, there were problems along [...]
February 20, 2013 – 10:45 pm
I’m back sewing again. I tried to do some portholes in heart shapes for the Row by Row swap (we’re doing applique hearts this time round) but the shape didn’t lend itself well to the technique and I started again. In the end I settled for fusible applique with blanket stitch edges. The blanket stitch [...]
January 24, 2013 – 8:54 am
I havent got much to blog about at the minute- I’m currently learning to ice skate and have a class on Sunday and I’ve managed not to bite my nails for at least 2 months now so I’m having some acrylics done on saturday to protect them- they have never been this long before! Otherwise [...]
January 17, 2013 – 11:56 am
Lots of photos, mainly because it was dark and really difficult to take one I liked, so you’re getting the whole lot! This quilt is made from 9 12″ blocks from the Great Granny Along that started last summer, the tutorial for the block is HERE. All the fabrics used are from a Curio jelly [...]
January 5, 2013 – 8:29 pm
I thought I had conquered the half rectangle triangle but it has reared it’s ugly head once more! This looks OK doesn’t it, seam allowance wise? It’s not! Margaret on the Popular Patchwork forum was having trouble scaling up these rectangles from a pattern, which I thought was quite simple at first having followed this [...]
December 30, 2012 – 12:17 pm
…is not so much a resolution, more of a target for the year. On my birthday I received a wonderful letter from the taxman saying I owe them quite a large sum of money and on top of that I’m getting fined an additional 15% plus interest. So I’m possibly going to have to look [...]
December 28, 2012 – 5:46 pm
Its been a while but I’ve decided to do a bit of a WIP update and link to Nina-Marie’s blog… Firstly I started and finished this quilt top from an Oh Deer Jelly Roll over the Christmas break. It’s been so horrible and wet and OH has been on night shifts so he’s been sleeping [...]
December 4, 2012 – 9:28 pm
The photo isn’t the finished one as I’ve not commissioned a photographer yet, however the clock project is now available for you for free! You can pop onto the Indiegogo gallery page to download it or you can put your email into the form on www.fabricatemag.co.uk and I will email it to you! And if [...]
December 1, 2012 – 12:06 pm
As you may know I went for a meeting on Thursday about setting up Fabricate, a magazine for contemporary quilters in the UK released monthly. I am now pitching to raise the funds to continue, here is my video complete with erms and “telephone voice”… The distributors were enthusiastic as craft titles are a [...]
