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Well! Dull, grey rainy days do have a silver lining! Namely: the outdoor conditions are ideal for cracking on with sewing room projects 🙂 Although not so good for photographing said projects, but I've done my best in the poor lighting circumstances... I am really...
Sit back, relax, this is NOT the Quilt Police knocking on your device’s screen! Quick recap from my previous post: 'I’m on a gentle mission to reassess my piecing techniques and figure out where inaccuracies have crept into my process. My mission is NOT to create a...
Sit back, relax, this is NOT the Quilt Police knocking on your device's screen! I'm on a gentle mission to reassess my piecing techniques and figure out where inaccuracies have crept into my process. My mission is NOT to create a perfect quilt but to increase the...
Well! This was a bit of a surprise! To allow the fibres to shrink before cutting and piecing I pre-washed a piece of white cotton from IKEA I wasn't expecting the colour to change! I mean it's white, there's no dye to bleed! My husband knows a thing or two about this...
Welcome to a belated edition of Saturday Quilting Bring & Share. I hope you have been having some stitching fun this weekend. Bring along your project(s) and share in the some of the quilty goodness offered to us by other members of our Worldwide Quilting...
The Basket of Blooms applique is continuing to give me opportunities to learn and practice new techniques. This week I made the yo-yo embellishments. First time making these and maybe not entirely successful as the holes in the centres look rather large - perhaps I...
Welcome to Saturday/Sunday Quilting Bring & Share ;-) Please do bring along a project or two, fill a glass or mug with your favourite beverage and relax as we share in just a little of the goodness doing the rounds of our Worldwide Quilting Community. Join in the...
In my previous post I shared a photo of all 60 of my Quilter's Color Quest Bear Paw blocks up on my design wall. After three days of walking past them and looking back at the photo I picked out two blocks that weren't quite working for me. The problem was the lack of...
So, designing and making a Bargello quilt, how hard can it be? :-D There are plenty of Bargello patterns to be bought, found in books or available for free on the 'interweb'... but none seemed to quite fit the fabric quantities I...
Conditions outside have steadily deteriorated through the day... It started grey now it's very windy, very wet and very, very grey! :-( I have had to admit defeat re. publishing a Saturday Quilting Bring & Share post. Reality check! This is a busy time of year for...
