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Last night was football night… and football night is also known as sewing nights around here. Husband on sofa watching aforementioned football and me in my room downstairs sewing. Everybody’s happy. I had all intention of practicing my ‘walking foot mad skillz’ but when looking for a large scrap of fabric to work with […]
Allow me a little moan. A couple of Saturdays ago I managed to get into this ‘talk/small tour’ behind the scene at the Wilson Museum here in Cheltenham. The subject? vintage quilts from their archives. How fab! (side note I got in on a ‘senior’ tickets that somebody returned…. nobody queried it… slightly depressing) Anyway, […]
I was going to begin by saying that I’m not a huge fan of the colour red… but in hindsight it might not be strictly true. True I don’t own red clothes – Chris de Burgh did not write that song about me – but every year I’m tempted by a pair of red Converse, and […]
This is how you end up losing a whole day … First you need to have a few books to put into your bookcase and because they’re in colour order this always require a little bit of shuffling and moving. Then you end up getting slightly distracted and start looking for books you haven’t read yet […]
The challenge was to make a quilt with what was at hand. No buying fabric was allowed… harsh, I know… Luckily for me I’m a fabric hoarder so I had plenty to choose from. What did I use? An old Toast top that had taken an accidental and sadly fatal trip into the washing machine. […]
