handmade by mary emmens
Today is the start of the Holiday Lane Pillow blog hop: Jill Findley from Jillily Studios is the designer of this pillow pattern, Pauline from Quilt n Queen is the hostess for Holiday Lane, and Madame Samm from SewWeQuilt is the QUEEN OF BLOG HOPS, who comes up … Read More »
Thanks for all your suggestions in response to my request for help yesterday. This is where I’d got to earlier this afternoon. I’m actually typing this one handed as I wait for glue to go tacky! So yes I did … Read More »
This coming weekend my lovely youngest cousin is getting married, the present is made, a gorgeous quilt with photo’s coming soon (it just needs a label), now the small matter of what to wear. Truth be told that has actually … Read More »
If you’ve not entered the giveaway be quick it closes tonight at 9pm (UK time) I’ve been working on a few things recently some of which are earphone pouches: Some are for a friend who runs her own soap business Soapdaze and ‘gets’ … Read More »
Giveaway now closed After a week of seeing what others have created in this priceless blog hop it’s my turn to share some of my handiwork. First a big thanks to Mdm Samm for the great pattern and instructions and … Read More »
You know sometimes you intend to write about something and then you don’t? Well this is one of those! Way back in May I won a wonderful prize in the Sew Mama Sew giveaway day, it was from the lovely … Read More »
Another month of successful hunting: Quite a stack this month, some duplicates but mostly new prints to me: The blue and purple floral on the 3rd row is 100% cotton and quite lovely, I might be using one of those … Read More »
Welcome to Fresh Sewing Day, a quick review of what I did last month. I don’t think I was twiddling my thumbs but when I looked through my flickr stream to see what I’d done in October I didn’t find … Read More »
Welcome if you’re visiting for the first time via Bloggers Quilt Festival. Over the last few days I’ve been admiring the hundreds of quilts (471 as I write this) that have been linked up. I have a few quilts that … Read More »
Back in September I mentioned that I had started a quilt and I showed you some of the blocks: Well a month later I’ve sewn some more and incredibly have a finished quilt top: One which I do quite like, … Read More »