Today is a lovely day. Don’t get me wrong, it’s tipping it down outside, and it’s me that’s having the lovely time. It started out with a 15km slow run in the woods, up and down the hills, with friends. It  rained steadily most of the way, but wasn’t cold and every so often it […]

I was a little worried when I settled down to start machine quilting Nature’s Notebook this morning. I really didn’t know how my Madeira rayon thread would work for machine quilting. I’ve read so much on the web about the Bernina 820 being really temperamental about the threads it will accept, but hey, you never […]

Things seem to be calming down on the home front, at least for the moment. School breaks up tomorrow, so I’m taking full advantage of the quiet right now. We seem to have got our heads round the school situation and I think we’ve got some tutoring almost organized for my daughter next year, with […]

Well here we are. Meadowsweet is finished, bound and everything. It’s single bed sized and several people seem to already have their beady eyes on it…. It’s amazing how throwing a whole lot of completely crazy fabrics together ultimately results in something so, well…subdued. I loved having my very own sewing retreat. (It would however […]

I’ve now adjourned to the living room to watch this…. and finish sewing down the binding by hand. (Yes I’m most definitely finish off by hand – one of my favourite parts of making a quilt!). Blame the move to watch Wimbledon on a combination of a rather unsatisfactory Afternoon Play on Radio 4 and […]