handmade by mary emmens
I hope you’ve had a fun week entering some great giveaways. It was fascinating to read your memories and thoughts on vintage sheets, sorry I’ve not got around to replying to you all I’ve been a little busy this week! … 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 »
Hadley is queen bee this month and chose a St Louis 16 patch using this tutorial. It’s simple to make, I made 2 using 2 fqs in half an hour. The fabric is a new line by Gina Martin for … Read More »
I’m guest posting over at Lily’s Quilts today, head on over to find out more about this beauty: Tweet
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 »
Last summer I made a gorgeous (in my opinion) baby quilt as part of the Zakka sew along using the pattern from Patchwork Please. It had quite a boyish theme to it, I struggled writing that because I don’t think … Read More »
Deep breath, time to make a decision about my goal for the month. Truth be told I’m going to try and be really disciplined this year and focus on what I want to do, not pick up BOM’s or QAL’s … Read More »
A new month and therefore a quick round-up of the sewing I did in November. Three notebook covers for friends and relatives: This last week I’ve been sewing up some clothes for the children and pyjama bottoms for me: And … Read More »