Category Archives: Quilt-a-long

Staying Home Quilt

Posted on May 23, 2020 by

I’m feeling well chuffed, I’ve just finished the top of my Staying Home quilt and it’s turned out better than I ever hoped for! This is the quilt which started with the free quilt block designs organised by Natalie of … Continue reading →

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Coming Home Quilt

Posted on May 17, 2020 by

It’s three weeks since I last showed you my Coming Home quilt, I was on the home stretch having just finished the applique of eighty leaves in the four corners, plus birds, dots, vines… I had already made the pieced … Continue reading →

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Staying Home Quilt

Posted on May 16, 2020 by

Last week I managed to finish the last of the embroidered blocks for my Staying Home quilt. This is my adaptation of the SAL organised by Natalie of the BirdHouse, she organised various quilt designers in Australia to give a … Continue reading →

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Peacocks and Peahens

Posted on May 7, 2020 by

Last month for the Foot Square Freestyle group we were making blocks for Lynn, she chose a gorgeous palette of peacock colours for her blocks, with no light neutrals, so all rich blues, greens and purples, with a bit of … Continue reading →

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Coming Home Quilt

Posted on April 26, 2020 by

I’m getting there! There’s light at the end of the tunnel!! I’ve cracked on with this quilt, hand-stitching all those leaves to the corners. I discovered that on a Friday night Andrew Lloyd Webber is doing a free screening on … Continue reading →

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Staying Home Quilt

Posted on April 25, 2020 by

I’m making good progress on my Staying Home quilt, it’s basically going to be made from the left over fabric from my Coming Home quilt, I seem to have rather a lot left! The basis of the quilt are some … Continue reading →

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Coming Home Hand Quilt – a- long

Posted on April 5, 2020 by

I’ve actually made pretty good progress over the last three weeks, I found the hand quilting was a great thing to do whilst watching Bluprint classes! Bluprint (the old and well loved Craftsy) has all classes for free at the … Continue reading →

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Hand Quilt-a-long

Posted on February 23, 2020 by

Change of plan!!! For the last few weeks I’ve shown you my progress (or not!) on my Christmas table runner. I have to admit it is sitting next to me, neatly rolled up, looking very reproachfully at me, as it’s … Continue reading →

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Christmas HQAL

Posted on February 2, 2020 by

It’s three weeks since I last shared my new hand quilting project, a Christmas runner with 24 embroidered squares. The embroideries were a surprise SAL from Hugs’n’kisses before Christmas,their suggestion was to use them for an Advent calendar, we don’t … Continue reading →

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Christmas HQAL

Posted on January 12, 2020 by

Last month I finally finished my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt so it was time to choose a new project for my Hand Quilt-a-long posts. I was planning for a while to start a different quilt, but having started this … Continue reading →

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