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Am I the only one crafting last minute, unplanned Christmas gifts? Probably not! Although there will be organised individuals who had all their gift projects planned on 1st January and carefully scheduled them to fit with other activities throughout the year to ensure...
The 'get it finished' mindset I mentioned recently has remained with me. Looking around my sewing room I found a quick finish in the form of the table runner I made alongside my Patchwork Quilting Beginners class way back in January. The unfinished runner has sat on...
Well! It's been nearly a month since I last posted. In that post I reflected on several years of developing my patchwork-quilting hobby into a business. My conclusion, based on an overwhelming weariness with marketing in particular, was to step back from 'business' in...
Working a few hours a week in retail is a good way of keeping ahead of the seasons! Currently the hottest items on the on-line order front include Halloween fabrics and Advent Calendar panels. Interestingly many are being posted across the Pond to USA. Some of these...
Just a few weeks before Christmas someone (you know who you are SR) dropped a heavy hint for a gift. The request for a tree skirt set my brain cogs whirring - a most welcome sewing project, the most perfect distraction from Christmas prep lists! I started with a quick...
Welcome to Saturday Quilting Bring & Share. Bring along your project(s) and enjoy being part of the sharing of information and inspiration in our Worldwide Quilting Community :-) Use the links below to delve into lots of different aspects of our patchwork quilting...
The Bible is an amazing witness to God's ultimate plan to reconcile wayward humans to Himself. Through Advent I've been following daily notes* exploring the book of Ruth. Just a few pages long, the book is tucked away in the Old Testament. Ruth was not a Jew but she...
A sandwich of a blog post - two positives surrounding a rather negative filling! First positive layer: Here is the progress I've made with a couple of the projects I have on the go: Pieces of the Santa Fe Trail Sew Along: I made the twelfth and final block. Came home...
I'm happy to have my first Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt finished in the year I began making it - just! The monthly hunt though a box of scraps of the prescribed colour gave me a sense of making progress through the topsy-turvy year of 2020. The simple nine patch...
I hope your Christmas has been a peaceful time, perhaps even an opportunity to embrace different ways of gathering and celebrating. Our Christmas moved on from Plan C to Plan D as our daughter and S-I-L were plunged into Tier 4 restrictions - no mixing of households,...
