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Over the past few months I've been following the Little House Sew Along and making the blocks ready to create a quilt. The Sew Along was inspired by events recalled in the wonderful Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Melva Nolan of Melva Loves...
I'm distracting myself from a big project that's got a bit too challenging, by making a little wall hanging. I selected some 2½" squares from my stash of blue and blue/green fabrics and teamed them up with Kona Snow offcuts to set them all on point. I decided to use...
Welcome to Saturday Quilting Bring & Share :-) Bring along your projects and enjoy sharing in some of the tips and inspiration posted by other members of our Worldwide Quilting Community. A photo-lite post this week as my sewing activities have been of the...
I'm British so I'll start with the weather! Today is officially the hottest day ever in the UK We have spent 48hours sharing in the extreme heat enveloping much of mainland Europe. Not being used to extremes of weather you can bet this is a major talking point here!...
Welcome to Saturday(ish) Quilting Bring and Share. Bring along your project(s), share in news and inspiration by clicking the links below to enter our generous and kindly Worldwide Quilting Community :-) I've entered February at lightening speed (well! for me anyway),...
Phew! I have finalised my selection of fabrics for the borders of the Pieces of the Santa Fe Trail quilt. Thankfully it hasn't involved the purchase of too much extra fabric. A total of one metre divided into two quarter and one half metre pieces. A quarter metre of...
Welcome to Saturday Quilting Bring & Share. Bring along your project(s) and click the links to enjoy the sharing going on in our Worldwide Quilting Community. Join in the with the Community by leaving your comments in the discussion threads on the blog pages you...
Ha! When I declare, 'I'm using up the blue scraps' patchwork quilters reading this will understand my bin of blue scraps is no where near being emptied! In fact after all my rummaging the bin appeared to be overflowing even more than when I'd started! :-D Anyhoo! The...
I've given myself a bit of colour bother! I went for a pick-n-mix tour of my local quilt store. I picked a fabric from the 'Fantasy' collection by Sally Kelly. I chose to mix it with a print from the Wildflower collection by Kelly Ventura. The Fantasy fabric has a...
We have thoroughly enjoyed a family outing to Micheldever Wood, Hampshire. The Wood, between our home town and the county town of Winchester, is famed for the beautiful carpets of bluebells spread out below a canopy of fresh green beech leaves. Walking through the...
