At last its off the frame.  This is just a quick post to show you the black quilt just before it came of the frame.  I’ve had some problems with it but its done now and I am quite pleased with it.  It’s ready for binding now and I will try and get a better Continue reading »

It’s been a short while since I last posted on here so I thought it was about time I got back to you.  It’s been a bit busy at home what with one thing and another, but at the weekend I went with three others to a store in Leicester and bought a load more Continue reading »

Finished all the pebbling on Thursday last, and I have to say it’s looking good so far. Unable to get back into the studio again until today and I was supposed to be making working in the studio a bit more organised.  Went to Ikea over the weekend and bought a few more storage things.  The Continue reading »

I am seeing spots before my eyes tonight.  I started doing all the pebbles on the black quilt last Thursday and went to the sewing class on Friday and decided to take the bank holiday Monday off as most of the rest of the country was doing. So today I went back to the pebbles Continue reading »

OK, not had much time in the studio today, but managed to get some stitch in the ditch done and a whole row of stencils.  Got one more row to do tomorrow, (and I have all day tomorrow to do it  yeaah) and then I have to pebble all round the stencils.  Oh, and do Continue reading »

Today I couldn’t spend much time in the studio as I had to attend a business training conference this afternoon.  However I was in long enough to sort out a few things and half decide on what was going to be included on the black one.  I am going to use a template but not Continue reading »

Okay, a quick catch up.  So in my last post I showed you a black and white cushion cover which was on the frame ready to quilt.  Since then I have done the front and the back, put the zip in and completed it.  It is now washed and ready to go.Here are the photos Continue reading »

Since visiting the NEC last week I have been trying to catch up a little, and yesterday a friend tried to help me improve my website a bit.  Now, this lady is usually very good at things like this and so we set too and tried to change the background surrounding the main part of Continue reading »

The Festival of Quilts is on this week, as many of you will know, and many of you will probably have been to.  I met up with many friends and had a good old gossip with them.  I did quite well as I walked around the myriad of stalls with oodles of fabulous fabrics on Continue reading »

Well today I thought I would do something a little bit whimsical and decided to quilt a little embroidered piece that I have had done for a while and which I intended to make into a cushion cover for a child.  So I marked it up and set of with it.   I decided to feather most Continue reading »