I must have spent three weeks deliberating over how to fasten up my patchwork Grainline Tamarack jacket before I came up with this Gambeson-esque design. I didn’t think I wanted a zip, I was thinking of just putting bronze snaps on it, but then I got into conversation on...
Can you believe this was the first quilt I ever designed when I started learning to quilt and got EQ7? I think I designed this in 2012 but it took until October 2019 to actually make it! I thought the Drunkards Path blocks looked a bit like birds when...
I wish I had written this post earlier, that way I would remember what it was that inspired this quilt. The idea was that with the pattern, each interpretation would be different. You create your own rule in which to use the starburst style FPP block, but within that...
This quilt is simply called Square Dance for it’s appearance in Annie’s Twist & Turn Block Quilts. The Helsinki part was to do with the fabric line I first made it in. I made this in October 2019, using bright prints I had to hand and quilted it the...
Oops, didn’t mean to disappear for several months…. that’s the longest break since starting this blog TWELVE years ago. I am behind on showing my makes, and I am not sure why it’s such an effort but I have several more quilts, including my latest animal portrait. I’m still...
So I’m now caught up to July (what was I doing?!) and here is Pencil Pusher! This lone star quilt and also an article on the aggregation of marginal gains was published in Make Modern magazine, issue 30. I think sometimes I make a quilt, have to keep it...
Oh wow, so it turns out I have four unblogged quilts for 2019, so I guess I’ll post about them in quick succession! Coming up soon – Pencil Pusher, Helsinki Square Dance 2 and High Flying Birds! This though is Frost, made in April 2019, lets see what I...
A lot has been knitted since June and my first class! I frogged the seed stitch scarf in the end, but I have got a back and a front panel done of a five panel cardigan. It’s a bit boring though so I have been working on a few...
Hello, I’m still here! What a few weeks it has been – I’ve been busy at work, I’ve been doing a night class, I’ve had some issues with illness and palpitations and I’ve been making stock for a show I’m about to tell you about! So this website and...
This quilt is my first to feature two animals. I intended to enter it into the Opposite Attract contest with SAQA, but I decided it wasn’t good enough, and then failed to get new photos taken for over a month until we got to Dickey Lake in Montana on...