handmade by mary emmens
I’ve just looked back at my first quarter finish along post to see what I really need to be working on this month. It appears that I need to get a wiggle on with some hexies and the Retro Flowers … Read More »
I thought I was on a quilt making mission when at the end of the week the children started talking about World Book Day (is it really across the World or just the UK?). Our school has decided on the … Read More »
At the beginning of February I shared with you my failure to read a pattern properly or was it just an inability to count. I needed 16 flowers for my retro flower quilt and had only made 9: So my … Read More »
Yesterday my children went back to school after the half term break so I had the opportunity for uninterrupted sewing time. I decided to tackle my retro flowers and now I have 16 finished blocks waiting for the next stage. … Read More »
Good morning, it’s a very chilly one here, for the first time since October I got up at 7am and went to the car boot sale, it was -1.5 degrees! I didn’t find anything and I am so glad to … Read More »
It’s half term holiday here this week so it feel like there is little time for sewing but I have a few things to report. Last week I mentioned a pile of triangles of Curious Nature that I was hoping … Read More »
Ooo I have a right pile of pretties to show you this week and I actually bought all of them! A couple of weekends ago the Craft 4 Crafters show was held locally and I had a whole bunch of … Read More »
I’m not here today but over at Lily’s Quilts guest posting about this: and this: and I have already received these blocks: Quick hop on over to Lily’s Quilts to see how you can get involved. Tweet
Another week and a bit more progress on my Retro Flowers: I’m almost halfway through piecing 1/4 petal to the next. This has been a leftover rather than an official WIP since Autumn 2013, I made a quilt for my … Read More »
In the last month I finished my scrappy log cabin quilt: I then had a bit of a tidy up of my stash and discovered that for some reason had been storing large (smaller than a fat eighth) scraps in … Read More »