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I’ve still never seen Star Wars

23 Jan

I started this paper piecing gift at the beginning of the year knowing that it needed to be gifted today. I do love paper piecing just one block to turn it into a cushion cover; it’s a lot of work...
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I’ve never seen Star Wars

19 Oct

So this is what happens when your middle child gets invited to a friends birthday party and they are a Star Wars fan. I immediately thought of making something but what? I know there is a line of Star Wars...
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A new pyjama pattern

10 Aug

I’ve written recently about the Goodnight Sweetheart pyjama pattern; sadly Leah is now too big for this pattern and I don’t have the skills to grade it up for her so I had to find a new pattern. I did...
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Years later…

31 Jul

Over four years ago I made an Easy Linen Shirt for Mathias: It was too big on him at the time but he has worn it extremely frequently over the last year. But he’s grown so I thought it about time...
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An origami cushion?

12 Jun

No I didn’t make a cushion cover by folding fabric! The origami theme comes from the fabric used! Bethan had a birthday invitation with a weeks’ notice which led me to a slight panic about what to make. Rather than...
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A personalised birthday cushion

7 Jun

It appears that there’s a trend here for gifting cushions for birthdays this year. I’ve made 3 in the last month and there is another in the works. I blogged about the shirts cushion I made for Tobi already so...
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Shirts

17 May

I was looking for some fabric a week or so ago and while rooting through the cupboard a bag of paper pieced shirts fell out. Rather than put them back in I decided to get them out and make a...
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A mini from scraps

13 Nov

You might not remember this quilt from December last year: It was made with 6 FQ’s and I kept the leftovers just because that’s what I do! I discovered them one day last week and wondered what I could do with...
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Using stashed fabric

22 Oct

A few years ago (2011) I went to the Festival of Quilts for the first time with Emily (blog post here), I bought these 1/2 metre cuts of fabric: They are flannels from Boden, I’m pretty sure they were being sold by...
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Kids Clothes week – Rohan Hoodie

20 Oct

A couple of years ago at a South West Stitchers meet up, Will from Abakhan brought a box of scraps/offcuts etc and I picked up 2 largish pieces of fleece from it. Initially I thought I could use them for...
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