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Hibernating again

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Once the weather breaks and the nights start to draw in and it’s dark in the mornings when we’re getting up , every year it’s the same. I stop wanting to go out any more than I absolutely must. I fill the freezer just incase we’re snowed in (which of course never happens, this being […]

Hibernating again
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Simple City

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

If in doubt, turn to Carrie Nelson! Somehow I ALWAYS find inspiration in Carrie’s books. In this case it’s Simple City from A Touch of Rosie. Although now that I’m cutting and piecing, it isn’t all that simple and there are an awful lot of pieces (600+ for a single bed), so I think the […]

Simple City
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Confessions of a quilt show junkie

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Ok, OK ….that may be over-egging it…particularly as I almost never go to quilt shows (although I will certainly be back at Ste Marie aux Mines next year and would go to more shows if there were more nearer!), but several of you did write to ask me to confess to what I actually bought […]

Confessions of a quilt show junkie
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Quilt Show Heaven…otherwise known as a little trip to France (Ste Marie aux Mines)

Friday, September 16th, 2011

For the past 17 years I’ve been trying to make it to Ste. Marie aux Mines in the Alsace region of France in September. I’d heard about the quilt show that takes over the little rural village for 4 days and thought it would make a nice trip out. Something always stopped me in the […]

Quilt Show Heaven…otherwise known as a little trip to France (Ste Marie aux Mines)
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The next project

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

As so many of you asked…. The next project is a quilt for one of my god-daughters. Rachel is going to turn 8 in December. She lives in very, very, very rural France (fairly near Poitiers), but is English. I asked for the colour scheme of her soon to be decorated bedroom – cream, green, […]

The next project
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