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Stacked Coins Table Runner
Inspiration for some pieces comes from the strangest places. I love the surprising way an idea is born out of something as simple as a late night conversation before sleeping. This is a table runner...
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A Girly Quilt in progress
I’ve spent a lovely day today working on the quilt I’m making for Alice for Christmas. Although it’s coming together so quickly that if I finish it well ahead of Christmas, I may struggle to wait. A...
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Alice’s Quilt – a heartbreaking work of not so staggering genius*
*Apologies to Dave Eggers for stealing and abusing the title of your book (which bored me silly!). Remember the quilt I started making for Alice for Christmas? The top of it was beautiful. It looked...
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Creative January
January is cold so far. This is an odd sentence. In this part of the world, it’s meant to be hot, scorchingly so. But it’s not. While this is brilliant for knitting and quilting, it’s not so great for...
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Of Blocks, Beads and Birthdays
A few weeks ago I started a longed for quilting class. Well I thought it was a quilting class. Turns out it’s in fact a patchwork class and there’s a difference that I just hadn’t considered. A...
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Mother-Daughter Scrappy Quilts.
Some time last year my mother suggested we embark on a joint quilting project. Not to make a quilt together, but to make the same pattern without telling each other anything about it – no word about...
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An Alice Quilt
About a year ago, in a fit of Christmas gift making enthusiasm, I started a quilt for Alice. It would be the first quilt I made for someone other than myself. Until I started sewing it, I didn’t...
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A Mug Mat
I’d never heard of a mug mat. I only stumbled across the notion when I was looking for small quilting projects. After several biggish quilting projects, I knew I wanted a few small things to make –...
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Cria in Progress
Sometimes a knit comes along that’s both challenging and a bit boring. Cria, by Ysolda, manages to be both and thankfully, having taken some photos of it today I’m suitably inspired to continue on with...
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A Charm Square Quilt
You know you’ve made something nice when, on seeing it, someone dear to you says ‘I’d love one just like that!’ And so it was that when I made Alice’s quilt last year, a quilt that admittedly took more...
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