Since, well, since forever, I’ve had making a Liberty quilt on the top of my quilts I want to make list. I’ve been collecting Tana lawn for decades with this in mind, but somehow it’s never quite happened. I just never could quite make up my mind about what I wanted to do… That’s all […]

On Friday my lovely friend Elisabeth (aka Shark’s Dinner) and I headed out to the Swiss Quilt Guild’s exhibitions in Solothurn, a pretty town about an hour on the train from Zürich. What did we find? It had been yarn bombed…. (don’t you love the pink bobbles!) Who would have thought? Those railings involved some […]

It’s a public holiday here today – Labour day….a good name for a day when we don’t have to labour I always think! It’s cool and rainy and if truth be told, a perfect day to stay home and potter…..what bliss. So today has been a bee block day…. Stitch Tease…. European Siblings Together…. I’ve […]

At the moment I seem to have reached one of those times in life where there is just never a free moment. Everywhere I look there is stuff that needs my attention, and sometimes all I can honestly manage is knitting socks! If I’m honest, it’s all a bit much. I’m trying to take baby […]

A year or two ago I bought some lovely simple blue and grey fabrics at a delightful little quilt shop somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Switzerland. They are German fabrics, but I have about as much chance of remembering the name of the producer as I have of remembering the name of the […]