handmade by mary emmens
In the Siblings Together Quilt bee it’s Hannah’s month and she asked us to make a four patch snowball block. I made mine yesterday: The blocks are quite simple to make but there is a little bit of waste and as … Read More »
Welcome to my entry for the Bloggers Quilt Festival in the Large Quilt Category. September was my month as Queen Bee for the Siblings Together Quilt bee, I asked for a 18.5 unfinished cross (details here). I think it can … Read More »
I’ve been having a pretty productive time of late and hope to have some finishes to show soon, I made a quilt from start to finish in less than 13 days! Yesterday I played around with a layout of the blocks … Read More »
I’m the Queen Bee for September in the Siblings Together Quilt Bee, we’ve got holiday coming up and then school starts so I’m getting organised! I’ve decided to go big and simple for my quilt. I searched around for my … Read More »
Heather at Quilts in the Queue is hosting this years quilt drive for 100 quilts for kids. Many of you I’m sure will already be involved in making quilts for children so here’s a chance to link up quilts that … Read More »
It’s July but Sue has already put up the info for the Siblings Together bee block for August. For one reason or another both the sewing projects that I have on the go have been stalled so I got on … Read More »
It’s nearly time for FQ Retreat and the chance to hand over quilts to the Siblings Together charity. Sadly I won’t be there this year so there will be a box of 6 quilts leaving Exeter shortly to go straight … Read More »
This month in the Siblings Together Bee, Jane chose the Cheerio block, inspiration came from Issue 8 of the Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine which has a quilt by Camille Roskelley using this block. There were discussions in the flickr … Read More »
I set out my goal for this month to get this quilt top transformed into a finished quilt: Photo from Jo’s IG I did it! It was almost too hot for basting but I managed it and also came … Read More »
At the end of April I along with Susy and Jo stitched together a pile of Wonky Cross blocks that had been made by the lovely people of instagram and flickr to make quilts for Siblings Together. We made 3 quilt … Read More »