handmade by mary emmens
My plan this month was to turn this: into a quilt top. Not as straight forward as I thought it might be. After cleaning the kitchen floor and laying out blocks I struggle to decide on a layout. Many of … Read More »
Just a really quick post to say yes I’m still here just busy trying to get well and sewing as much as time and energy will allow. This week I got together with a few lovely friends and we did … Read More »
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 »
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 »
I can’t yet share the ‘thing’ I’ve spent most of my time on this week but here’s a little something I did last night while I had a pile of vintage sheet scraps pulled out: It’s a paper pieced string … Read More »
I can’t quite believe that this is the last month of the And Sew On BOM but it is and Kristy kindly left what I think was the fiddliest block until last! It took a while for me to find the … Read More »
Yes I did mention last week in this post that I needed to sort my stash out, well this is not a photo of my well organised, tidy stash but the And Sew On BOM for August: We returned early … Read More »
The unstoppable Kristy at Quiet Play put a call out again last week for pattern testers. She attached images of the blocks that she wanted testing and one of them was a digger. There is a small boy in our … 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 »
This weeks project from Patchwork, Please! is the Tea Cosy and Teabag pouch. I decided to continue to use Essex Linen and the Sew Cherry scraps that I used last week on the tea towels: In hindsight I wish I’d … Read More »