February 22, 2013 – 10:33 am
Applique and I are not best friends at the moment. I’m pretty happy with gluestick applique but I thought I’d give needleturn ago and I ended up with a blooming mess. Then I gave up and decided to machine stitch, but as the pieces were only tacked down, I ended up with weird lump bits and [...]
February 3, 2013 – 7:56 pm
A last quick post before I go on holiday! I’ve sorted the packing, the dog has somewhere to go tomorrow and I will be back blogging and sewing again around 15th February as I’m working away straight after we get back. Of course I have prepared some hand sewing to take to Riga with me- [...]
January 12, 2013 – 4:38 pm
First things first, those who were interested in the half rectangle triangle solution, go visit this thread here. I’ve not actually tried it yet as I got a bit fed up with them I thought I’d try and get on top of my sewing obligations today! Here’s Brittany’s quilt top for Around the Bend and [...]
September 4, 2012 – 9:34 am
Have you seen the Can’t Grow a Mo’ Sew a Mo’ block appeal? I won’t go into too much detail but it’s being managed by DJ Cool Bear to make a quilt to be raffled off for Movember and the Mary Potter Hospice raising money for prostate cancer patient care. All you have to do [...]
And the winner of the scraps and bits and pieces is… Nadia/TCN! And the Twitter bonus prize winner is… @gholmes724 Well done, I’ll be in touch later *** Right, onto new business! I’m starting my first quilting bee! I couldn’t find one with spaces and wanted to take part in another borders one but it was US only [...]
