Saturday, January 12th, 2013
I have spent hours and hours of precious sewing time dithering around, flicking through my gazillions of quilting books, all the articles I’ve cut out over the years…..I finally came down to Carrie Nelson’s Simple City pattern and just as I was about to start cutting I noticed some very fine pencil marks in the […]
French Fireworks!
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
This is my next project. Isn’t it so good you could eat it? It’s Rouenneries Deux by French General. I love, love, love the combination of the browns and beiges and that lovely rich red. I’d actually set this afternoon aside to get started. And have I? Nope. All I’ve done is dithered around looking […]
Dithering Rouenneries
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Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Thank you so much for all your great suggestions on what I should use my beautiful boxes for…..so far I’ve used three of the boxes to sort out my threads (which were previously in a horrible jumble in a great big box where I could never find what I wanted)…… Don’t they look nice? I […]
Who won and what a star!
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Monday, January 7th, 2013
OK, now be honest with me…. Who joined me in feeling a great big sigh of relief when the last family member went out of the door this morning? Phew. I love the lot of them, but it felt SO good to be in an empty house and have some time to myself again! I […]
Hands up!
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Saturday, January 5th, 2013
It doesn’t seem to matter where I’ve been or what I’ve been doing, I love coming home. OK, I’m not quite so keen on all the laundry that a family of 5 bring back with them from skiing and the chaos that I have to spend a day or two organizing, but for me, home […]
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