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Not drunk

8 Jul

Back in October 2010 I received a parcel of ‘scraps’ from Jo who was relocating to the States for a while and wanted someone to do something with the scraps left over from work she had been doing for Dashwood...
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Scraptastic Tuesday

11 Apr

This months bee block for Siblings Together was chosen by Maria and the Frame Block box tutorial is by Sarah. It’s a great scrap busting block although that very much depends on your scrap collection! The outer frame does require...
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Red and white

28 Mar

I finished this quilt last month but it’s taken a while to get it photographed. It’s a quilt for Siblings Together and I’ve had foundation pieced blocks sent from various parts of the world, thanks to all the members of...
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Using someone else’s scraps

16 Jan

November was my month in the Siblings Together quilt bee and I had a brilliant lot of blocks sent to me. I was running low on red scraps and Nicky (also one of the Scraptastic Tuesday hosts) kindly sent a...
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Siblings Together November block

5 Nov

It’s November and therefore my turn in the Siblings Together bee and I’m asking for this block: I don’t actually know what it’s called, if you know then please enlighten me! Please use red fabrics for the X, I don’t...
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Sunday Stash #66

9 Oct

Welcome to another edition of Sunday Stash; first I have thread to show you. It’s not normally the most exciting thing but the purchase and delivery of this means that I am a step closer to getting the Groove quilt...
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More catching up….

9 Feb

I’ve been busy sewing and not blogging, but today I have got some scrappy makes to share. First up is a couple of gifts I made for Christmas; one hour baskets for my girls: This one was made for Leah...
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Another bee quilt

26 Oct

I’m leaving it a bit late to enter a quilt for bloggers quilt festival just because I’ve not had the time to sit down and write! But here it now is: This is a bee quilt with blocks made by...
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Scraptastic Tuesday

13 Oct

As usual there’s been a fair bit of scrappy sewing going on this last month. Octobers bee blocks for Julie Carol these were great fun to make although they did use up more scraps than I expected (that is not a complaint...
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Disappearing again?

5 Oct

Yet again I am spoilt for choice in which project to choose for the months goal. While there are a couple of things higher up my ‘desire to complete’, list I think what would be most useful to complete is...
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