handmade by mary emmens
Back in January I was fortunate to win a $50 gift certificate from Sew Mama Sew for the Canadian fabric store Mad About Patchwork. Imagine my delight when I discovered that they stocked Charley Harper fabrics! To be honest I’d be … Read More »
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Wow my blog post writing has slipped, a lot! I’ve been really busy stitching and also cutting fabrics for the shop, it’s been a little bit crazy but I’m not complaining. So I plan to do some catching up. Last … Read More »
I have lots of scraps including a big bag full of selvedges. Over the half term holiday I decided to play with selvedges and ended up with this: Aside from the time it took to stitch all the selvedges together … Read More »
Oh goodness I’m really struggling with what to state as my goal for the month. I have a small boy at home with chickenpox and so my plans for this week have already gone out of the window! But I … Read More »
At the beginning of February I set my goal to stitch 288 small flying geese and 72 large flying geese together into blocks! It seemed like a huge task, bearing in mind that I had to decide upon a layout first! … Read More »
Time for a review of February’s fabric acquisitions… A whole lot of vintage sheets: Fortunately these are allowed as without them my Etsy shop would close and I would have no money to spend on fabric holidays. Some from the charity … Read More »
I feel like I’ve fallen off the blogging wagon, time has been short, I tend to share my in progress and finished makes over on instagram (if you’re interested I’m memmens), it’s quick and easy and doesn’t eat into my … Read More »
A couple of weeks ago Lynne put out an emergency call for a couple of yards of Kona white that she urgently needed, I had a yard in my stash untouched so put it in the post to her the … Read More »
Life seems to be revolving around this quilt but it will get finished! This month my goal is to get all the blocks made up. This morning I sorted all the small flying geese into sets of 4. Now they … Read More »