crabbit quilter

Do. Not. Use. Red. Fabric. Without. WASHING. IT. FIRST. This is important. Sigh.

Lily's Quilts  is showing an example of some small thing that can change people's lives. I've never been in care, never been an...

Finished! With washing and drying and everything! Here's the whole quilt, in not brilliant detail, because the camera has decided it...

The heart chain quilt is lying in a crumpled heap at the end of the sofa. Looking for all the world like a neglected unloved pile of fabric....

Only 99% because after I'd finished quilting the mammoth, I turned it over to discover a couple of wee puckers in the back. Rats. But th...

That post title first came up as 'wilting', and after 4 hours I reckon I have had enough for just now. Going well so far, no puckers...

How do I grow my blog? Just found this fantastic blogging entry on Lily's Quilts , an amazing and colourful blog I read. Ideal advice ...

Plugging away at loads of stuff - brother and family down for the Jubilee weekend, where we did absolutely nothing relating to the queen at ...

Last block of the wedding commission finished tonight. Phew. Now all I have to do is sew the top together, layer and pin baste, quilt and ...

You know that feeling you get when you make something from lots of little bits, and it feels like you've been doing it a while, and you ...

   No, not a mistake, I do have some knitting things left from my olde shoppe, oh! those were the days...But I will have a few quilting effo...

Well, no rain here at all, actually, which makes a change, but my favourite thing at the minute is the basted and almost finished huuuuuuuuu...

Have sewn the backing together. The finished top looks like this: And the backing will be reddish, and also the binding. I think it l...

Here's a wee peek of the work-in-progress bedspread - which is really real, not just a blether :) Its coming on well, and should ho...

Sewing is going on. Honest. Have made half of the top of the bedspread, laid it out with some raw fabric to check the design, and it looks. ...

Have been mostly working at my real job, boohiss, although it is a bookshop so it could be a lot worse (!) and visiting the family in the is...

Hallo blog! Am sitting on my arse downstairs wasting time on the computer when I should be upstairs cutting and sewing, but just wanted to s...

Not usually something we do really, as in, take a few days out in the sun to do nothing, but the last year has been a really difficult one f...

There is no such word as ADDICTING. It's just wrong and fills me with unmentionable horror and nausea. SO wrong. The word you are look...

And much less snottery too. Yay! I can almost hear properly again. Now I have no way of tuning out the Blighter, though, but nothing in life...