handmade by mary emmens
Earlier this year Tobit’s brother got married; I’d known about the event for 6 months or so and had been pondering the idea of making them a quilt for a wedding gift. This time last year we had a whole … Read More »
This project started back in September with the sorting and stitching of scraps in to colour groups: Slowly over the month it grew: I tackled reds: Last weekend I tackled orange, yellow and green and then I deconstructed a pair … Read More »
I started the quarter with this almost complete quilt top: I added some narrow borders and talked to Leah about the backing; she decided that she would like a large fox on the back, like Mathias has a large whale … Read More »
Welcome to Bloggers Quilt Festival; it has motivated me to get on and share this quilt which I finished last month. Just over 3 years ago there was a quilt along for the Marcelle Medallion pattern by Alexia Abegg from … Read More »
I have a great pile of finished items that I have yet to share. Here’s one that was gifted this last week. It’s a cushion cover for Bethan’s wonderful teacher: I made it using the Frances Firefly block from Elizabeth … Read More »
All too often terrible events happen across the world, many of which we are unable to do much about but we can respond to them. So I made a couple blocks for Pulse; I couldn’t resist using the selvedge in … Read More »
I’ve made some progress on the Groove quilt; it’s all cut out, I’ve stitched all the curves and I’m starting to put it together. But, this arrived yesterday: I’ve eyed this up ever since it was released, recently Leah has … Read More »
Lots of cutting yesterday and today in preparation for making a Groove quilt: Tweet
Have you seen the great campaign by Lindsey Rhodes of LRStitched? It’s a commitment to support makers by buying and making their patterns, read more about it here. As someone new to pattern writing I have an insight in to the … Read More »
This is the first (and hopefully not only) tick off my 2nd quarter FAL list. My aim was to get the third of my Welsh Blanket quilt patterns – Peony, made into a quilt top. At the start of the … Read More »