In between a whole lot of other things over the last couple of days I’ve been steadily quilting my zig-zag quilt. I actually intended to quilt the white part in white and the coloured parts in appropriate colours, but once I’d started with the white I realized that if I left the coloured zig-zag rows […]

 After The Fat Quarterly Retreat Quiltova and I decided to set up our own bee for Ex-pats and Europeans. And so, Sew Euro-bee-an was formed. I’m on duty for the first month and I’ve been pondering lots of possibilities over the last couple of weeks. I found a block I liked, but the publishers of […]

So. The kids are home and my quiet 3 1/2 days are over. I absolutely loved them. Loved, loved, loved! For once I managed to have time for me when I really needed time for me and I wallowed in it. I got a fair bit done – two quilt tops finished and the block […]

Yesterday was my day for getting my September block for the EEEEP EPP BEE designed and a prototype made. I’m a bit of a newbie to English Paper Piecing – except for the hexagon quilt I made as a teenager, I’ve done precisely nothing except for the Treasure Chest blocks that I made for the […]

Now I’m on my own and I’m motoring….can’t believe how much I’m getting done!! Today’s finishes…… Zig-zag quilt top (Happy Mochi Yum Yum) The first Waving Lace Sock (Evelyn A Clark, Madeline Tosh Sock yarn)….I’d rather like to rename this the Wiggy Sock after a certain young man’s wonderful success today! My first manicure in […]