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Category Archives: Quilting
Inching Down the Rabbit Hole
Slowly but surely I’m am making progress on hand quilting my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt. As I keep telling other, progress is progress! It’s three weeks since I last showed you my quilt, I had just started the rope … Continue reading
Posted in Down The Rabbit Hole, Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged Down The Rabbit Hole, Hand-quilting
19 Comments
Stars
Last week I decided to catch up on some time-limited projects, I’d been concentrating on finishing my first quilt for care-leavers, but it meant I was a bit behind on other things, some of which had a date on them! … Continue reading
Quilts for Care Leavers
Last Saturday I met up with a group of ladies in Steeton to make quilts for young people who are leaving the care system.I do feel quite strongly that these young people have had a pretty poor childhood and then … Continue reading
Posted in Quilting, Serendipity
Tagged Oh My Stars quilt, Quilting, Quilts for Care-Leavers
18 Comments
Going Round the Rabbit Hole HQAL
It’s three weeks since I last showed you my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt, I’d just finished the sunflower border and I was on a bit of a roll… Unfortunately I came to an abrupt halt and failed miserably with … Continue reading
Posted in Down The Rabbit Hole, Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged #downtherabbithole, Down The Rabbit Hole, Hand quilting
25 Comments
Jelly Roll Workshop; A Quilt in a Day
I’m quite excited at the moment, I fixed a date at the weekend to run my first quilting workshop. It’s on June 29th!! A little while ago one of my local fabric shops, B&M fabrics, opened a workshop in the … Continue reading
Nineteen for 19
May is whizzing by and I haven’t even worked out how I’m doing with my Nineteen for 19 challenge for April, so here goes… 1 Scrap Quilt I was planning to start a new BOM with scraps, I’ve even sorted my … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Garden, Nineteen for 19, Quilting, Serendipity, Splendid Sampler Quilt, The Travelling Sketchbook, Walking
Tagged Nineteen for 19
10 Comments
Woodland Spring Wreath Quilt
A couple of days ago I embroidered another piece of the border for my Woodland Spring Wreath quilt, this is a BOM from Raggedy Ruff Designs, I’ve just got one more month to stitch and it’s finished. This month I … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged Free Machine Embroidery, Quilting, Woodland Spring Wreath Quilt
9 Comments
Going Nicely Down the Rabbit Hole
It’s three weeks ago since I last shared my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt, I was feeling a bit down-hearted about how long it was taking and my slow progress generally with the project. This is where I was up … Continue reading
A Woodland Spring Wreath
I’ve just started the border of my Woodland Spring Wreath quilt, this is a BOM by Andrea Walpole of Raggedy Ruff Designs, it’s quite exciting as it’s all starting to come together. There’s several short lengths of patchwork and two … Continue reading
Posted in Quilt-a-long, Quilting
Tagged applique, Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Raggedy Ruff Designs, Spring Wreath Quilt
13 Comments
My Splendid Sampler 2
I’m trying to reduce the number of quilts I’m working on at the moment, having finished one fairly recently I still have six at various stages of construction!! Some just need quilting (hand or machine!) others need piecing and some … Continue reading


