Oh My Stars!
So this week I joined the Oh My Stars! quilt along and I have mostly been making or thinking about making stars: I started off with the basic sawtooth star in 12″, 8″ and 4″ blocks: I then had a … Read More »
handmade by mary emmens
So this week I joined the Oh My Stars! quilt along and I have mostly been making or thinking about making stars: I started off with the basic sawtooth star in 12″, 8″ and 4″ blocks: I then had a … Read More »
Pin It I spent some time over the last week cutting vintage sheets up into fat quarters. I’ve now got a box full of approx 90! I do have plans for them and it doesn’t involve sewing with them! But … Read More »
Do you pin your fabric while you’re sewing? Sometimes, quite often in fact I wing it! It does of course depend on what and sewing and who for but sometimes I love the freedom of just holding the fabric together … Read More »
It’s true at the beginning of December I had a birthday! It almost passed me by. I actually spent the day doing 2 fairs back to back (read more about those here)! Fortunately my wonderful husband took the 2 days … Read More »
Happy New Year to you, I’d love to do a review of the last year, thoughts about the next but can’t really be bothered! If you are interested to know what I did last year you can read about it … Read More »
Our gorgeous little boy turned 2 last week! It really doesn’t seem that long since he looked like this: I got the cushion cover finished in time without a problem – I do love an invisible zip! He seemed quite … Read More »
You may remember last week I mentioned that our little boy is about to celebrate his 2nd birthday and I was asking for inspiration for something to sew. I have a lovely new book called ‘Sewing for Boys’ but not … Read More »
Following on from my last post of a few photo’s of a finished quilt, excitingly there was no rain this morning so I took the opportunity to get the quilt out on the washing line and photographed in full: I … Read More »
I am so relieved and delighted – the quilt is finished! He is delighted: so much so he collapsed with joy on it! Full post coming soon, I just wanted to share some cute photo’s of happiness, well worth those … Read More »
Tobi has been on holiday from work this past week so we’ve had lots of quality family time and a few strops and rows (that, I promise was the children!) and little time for sewing or blogging; for this I … Read More »