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 »

Thank you to those that got back to me about yesterdays post, and the decision was…..   Black.So  when I got in this morning I starting cutting out the black squares to go with the batiks and stripped them together.  I didn’t want to make a huge quilt so decided to do four rows of Continue reading »

So you know how it is when you suddenly decide that you are going to do something and then it all changes to something completely different.  Well today was one of those time.  Late this morning I decided that I would go into the studio and catch up on a couple of sample quilts that Continue reading »

Well the borders are on and now its ready for quilting, which won’t be until after next week when I’ve been to the Festival of quilts as I need to collect a batch of threads, one of which will be for this quilt. I am going to use the Superior Rainbows Zebra thread.  Its one Continue reading »

Well its been some time but I thought I had better get back to my sons quilt, which if you remember I started a couple of months ago.  For various reasons I hadn’t been able to work on it, but today I thought I would get back to it.  So I started sewing all those Continue reading »

I have found these floor tiles in Costco and put them under my machine. They are anti-fatigue so are great for standing on for long periods of time.  I have also finished the cats quilt and had the final Linus quilt on and of since my last post. I have ha d loads of problems Continue reading »

At last I have finished off the micro pebbles on the cat quilt.  It took me longer as I kept getting side tracked and the heat this week has been almost unbearable.  But they are done. Now I just have to do three more border feather sets and its done.  Unfortunately I couldn’t finish it Continue reading »