It’s early morning, husband and first child have gone to work, the dishwasher is whirring in the dark corner of the kitchen, the dog is asleep on the sofa. It’s raining hard and I have four guests asleep downstairs and two boys asleep upstairs. I have coffee. I like these quiet grey mornings. After the …
… It’s been so long since I visited that it’s almost embarrassing writing about it, but here we go. First of all a confession: it wasn’t my favourite show. All the quilts exposed had been skilfully done but not many grabbed my attention and made me run back home to the sewing machine with a …
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. …
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