handmade by mary emmens
At the end of April I along with Susy and Jo stitched together a pile of Wonky Cross blocks that had been made by the lovely people of instagram and flickr to make quilts for Siblings Together. We made 3 quilt … Read More »
At the beginning of the month I set out a goal to make a vintage sheet quilt top. At that point I really wasn’t sure what I was going to do but after looking through my stash of vintage sheets … Read More »
There’s been a bit of secret sewing going on this week but that’s finished so now I need to come up with a plan for the rest of the month. Now that the wedding quilt is finished I’m feeling a … Read More »
Not that many blog posts ago (2 to be precise) I set out my goal for April, to make 7 more shirts for the All Shirt Swap. By the time we were ready to go to London for the wedding (16th) … Read More »
This month I need to finish the quilt for my brothers wedding gift, but it is nearly done, just the binding to stitch down and then it needs to be washed and photographed. So that would be a simple goal … Read More »
I set my goal for March to paper piece the text for the back of the wedding quilt. I took the letters away on our sewing retreat and got them all stitched up. It was quite intense work, but I … 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 »
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 »
I started the month with this: and 4.5 metres of Kona Snow with the goal to complete all the cutting for a quilt top. My sewing space now contains this pile of flying geese, all trimmed, approximately 70 large and 224 … Read More »