handmade by mary emmens
Nine years ago today this gorgeous girl was born; I wanted to give her something handmade for her birthday, but funnily enough she has quite a lot of handmade things and I was struggling to come up with a plan. … Read More »
Choosing a project for this month has been tough, there are a couple of things that I have to get done anyway so I felt I wanted to choose something else that would feel like a big achievement. So what … Read More »
Wow I really can’t believe that today is the first of November, thankfully October whizzed by, it wasn’t a nice month for me, I’m hoping that November will be much better! So what did I do? It doesn’t feel like … Read More »
At the beginning of the month I set my goal to complete my #MSBHQAL top. I was so nearly there; all the blocks were made, I sashed them and then hung the quilt top on the wall and after a day … Read More »
I’m guessing that if you ‘live’ in the world of quilts and fabric the fact can’t have passed you by that Quilt Market is happening right now and therefore it’s time for Bloggers Quilt Festival. It took me a little … Read More »
Just a quick post on the eve of my little boys birthday weekend to make a commitment to do something with these this month: Broken Herringbone blocks as part of the #MSBHQAL. I’m hoping that I will manage at least … Read More »
Another month flew by and I’ve struggled to find photo’s in my flickr stream to evidence much sewing: In fact this might look more impressive than it is, the 2 cushion fronts were made more than a year ago but … Read More »
At the beginning of the month I showed you these 2 blocks which I made 15 months ago at FQ Retreat (if you want to know how to make them I believe you can find the instructions in Lucie Summers … Read More »
A few weeks ago when we were beginning to settle in to the new bit of the house I decided that I had time and energy to execute a plan that had been swirling around in my head for a … Read More »
On Wednesday after a couple of days of paper piecing (which I’ll show you soon) I had a look at the Patchwork Please sew along project for the week and discovered that it was the Books for Baby quilt. A … Read More »