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Scandi Christmas Table Runner
Enough doodling and gardening. I was itching to get back to some serious sewing. The perfect project for getting back in the groove was the promise of a festive table runner that I’d made my sister...
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Tee Time
I do love our golf course, it’s a great course and the views are stunning. I really am still determined to get to grips with this challenging, frustrating and totally stimulating game but at this time...
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Annali Inspiration
Among my Christmas presents this year was a treasure chest from one of my lovely friends. Inside were lots of yummy foody things. All locally produced. There were speciality mustards and marmalade, a...
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Peg Bags
Exactly a year ago last week, February half term, me and my sister and our sisters-in-law met up for a girls day out in the lovely little seaside town of Aberdovey. We drank coffee and talked; we...
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Time for UfOs
UfO Number 1 Aboriginal Dots It’s only just over a year since I began this sampler quilt. Quite a short time in the long line of UfOs waiting in line in my workroom really! It was the first thing I...
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Pedal Pushers Beach Bag
From Capel Bangor to Aguadulce We didn’t spend a lot of time on the beach on our most recent trip to Spain and we didn’t ride our bikes down to the sea as often as usual either, but I did carry...
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Heidi’s Quilt
I’ve been missing from here for such a long time. Nothing blogged since the spring and we’re almost into a new year! It isn’t that I haven’t been busy making, more that I’ve been even more busy with...
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Retro Orchard Puff Quilt
The first ever Puff quilt I made was for my own first baby well over How home photography has changed in the digital age! 30 years ago. We had a crib that had been in the family for many years and I...
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Upcycling
Have you ever completely ruined a perfectly good woollen jumper? I’ve done it once or twice! When Jeff first retired and took over the laundry he did. I remember one of my jumpers and one of his. I...
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Nappy Stack
With just a week’s notice my son invited me to go to his partner’s baby shower. The second thought to cross my mind (the first, ‘Ooh, lovely’) was to wish I hadn’t rushed to give them the Retro...
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Unrealistically Optimistic Quilter
Christmas Sewing 2016 One I’m not going to call this a New Year resolution, for one thing it’s much too late for that. But I am determined that this year it will be back to keeping up with the blog. So...
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Christmas Sewing 2016 Two
Countdown to Christmas Kits have never really been a choice for my sewing projects. I suppose somewhere deep in my psyche using a kit is ‘cheating’. I certainly have always gone through the agony and...
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Be my Valentine
Another Year, Another Valentine It was that time of year again. The eve of Saint Valentines day. Time to shut the door of my workroom and rummage through the bits and bobs. Especially the red bits...
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Dougie’s Quilt
Schoolboy! In September Dougie started school, we did feel lucky to be involved in his first few days. With staggered starts to school there were days at the very beginning of term when we had him to...
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Finished in February
It’s a great British tradition to complain about the weather and in January and February this year there was plenty to complain about. One of my favourite ways to keep reasonably fit is to walk in...
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Finished in February II
Story Cushions The first Story Cushion I made was The Very Hungry Caterpillar cushion it’s in the blog for April 2014. You can see it here. It had been in the making a lot, lot longer. It was actually...
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Perky Pumpkins
Halloween As halloween 2019 approached I recalled having seen some really funky pumpkins when I was browsing on Pinterest. I have quite a bit of orange fabric in my stash so I thought I’d take a...
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Woodland Creatures Quilt
Florence is growing quickly and suddenly she’s ready to move into her own room so I wanted to make her a quilt of her own for her cot. I’ve had the Moda ‘Thicket’ panel for some time and it seemed...
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Meadowland Quilt
What, a new project? I was still working on Florence’s cot quilt, ‘Woodland Creatures’ when a Meadowland block caught my eye on Instagram. One comment led to another and I had something new to think...
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sign of the Times
When early on in the COVID 19 lockdown the wearing of face masks was mooted I knew that I would almost certainly be making my own. I had no intention of writing a blog about them though! Time went on...
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