Friday, May 28th, 2010
I’m still playing with the Whirligig blocks I mentioned yesterday. Such fun! I really love Carrie Nelson‘s no-waste method of making Flying Geese blocks. I don’t know who thought it up – whether it was Carrie herself, or someone else – but whoever it was, they deserve a medal. It’s so much easier than the […]
Scrappy uglies.
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
I’m having just the most delightful time. When I do get down to doing some piecing I always realize that it makes me really, really happy. Maybe that’s why it sometimes takes me so long to get round to it – I always feel I should do all the other things that I have to […]
I’m in heaven….
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Finally we have some summer – just in time for one of my lovely Slow Down Sundays. Yesterday I did quite a lot of… And a little…. ….with Miss Rosie’s Spice of Life Quilts in mind. It wasn’t a day when I was feeling very decisive, so a lot of dithering went on and not […]
Slow Down Sunday..again…
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
This morning I finished the socks for my mother’s birthday and posted them to England. They should by now be winging their way in that direction, but will be late (her birthday is tomorrow). I’ve warned mum that that will be the case, but as she has my brother and his wife visiting from Canada […]
Sock finish no. 4 2010 – Granny’s socks are done!
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but one of my greatest treats is when it’s raining outside, the children are at school and I give myself the gift of an afternoon hand quilting beside a roaring log fire (and try hard not to feel just a teeny bit guilty about it!). There is really nothing more comforting […]
An old-fashioned girl?
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