Are you sometimes inspired by the fabric??? Do you buy fabric because you love it and have to find a project to use it in? Well as a shop owner I have these feelings most of the times we receive new fabrics … but obviously have to make a choice which one I Â will sew […]
Category: Kits
Sister’s quilt … piecing finished
Yes, it’s true, the piecing is finished on the quilt for my sister … it’s been busy evenings, as that is more or less the only time I have to work on it, but my mum did helped a lot as well. There was a bit of decision making in the process about the order […]
Quilt for my sister … progress in pictures
We had our first retreat last week and I’ll tell you all about it in a couple of days, but every evening when I came back I was sewing and making progress on my sisters quilt. We made a good progress on the blocks, actually by now there is only 15 small blocks missing …. I […]
Quilt for my sister
My sister visited me last year for the first time and finally saw all the quilts I have made in real. Her husband and her loved them and wanted to commission me to make some. I said I would love to make a quilt for her, I don’t want any money, I just want her […]
Mosaic workshop
I have treated myself with a workshop with Vectis Quilters. The special tutor was Barbara Weeks, who makes wonderful felt pieces and also teaches fabric mosaic – and that was the workshop. I always wanted to make a mosaic piece, so when I saw this workshop coming up, I signed up straight away!! And it was such […]
Guess what I was doing??
Guess what I was doing all Sunday … here is a picture to hep you guess. Jasmine spend all day running in and out of house and was very happy playing outside with other kids, I just needed to supply her with drink, fruit and plaster for her knee (bless her, she loves her scooter […]
New projects
I was thinking I could have a couple of days off after all the rush with Open Studio and Festival of Quilts entries was over, but that’s just not me …. I had the time and space on my hands so I started straight away to work on new projects for September and October workshop […]
Finished and posted second time round this year!!
YES I did it! In the last month I have made 9 new small pieces for the Open Studio, and finished the Moonlit Garden quilt in time for the Festival of Quilts and I’m still sane!!!Open studio finished on Sunday, I have been quilting the Moonlit garden every evening of the OS and Monday and Tuesday […]
Open Studio starts o Friday
Yes that’s right!! Open Studios are going to start this week on Friday. And that’s mostly why I have been so quiet. I have produced 9 new pieces – no actually WE have produced all of them. There will be very often my name, but Oli always did something for the piece … from felting […]
Sandown quilt show and my Awards
It has been long and very nice day at Sandown quilt show. I’ll show you the winners and my favourite quilts in a day or two, as it’s quite late now, but because I have teased you about my own quilts, I will be a bit selfish and talk only about my quilts today. I didn’t ended up […]