It’s done!! And I love it…..may I present Ilsa’s quilt!! Made using the Moda Amelia fabric line. The batting is Warm & Natural cotton batting and the quilt is machine quilted using YLI machine quilting thread – I did freehand loops and swirls. And now I need to run off with it to the post […]

Nothing on the creative front to report from here today, but I have finished my Christmas cards and Christmas party invitations and my sewing machine is buzzing away as I quilt Ilsa’s quilt! The big news is that Northumbria Police have made three arrests in connection with my mother’s robbery and two similar cases this […]

Aaaah….Can you hear my big sigh…. I’ve finally made it to the machine quilting. Phew. Maybe this quilt will actually make it to England on time. I love machine quilting and after having had a fairly stressful week, a gentle hour at the machine is really doing me the world of good. Sock knitting and […]

I never did get to show you photos of my trip to York last week, what with the missing camera and all the hullaballoo in between. Anyway, now I can. I love York – it’s a fabulous town to have a good mooch around, fantastically historic and full of interesting places to visit and things […]

The good My mother found the passport and the savings book that she thought had been stolen at the weekend. The British police were magnificent – kind, patient and very reassuring to a shaken elderly lady. My camera has turned up!! Thanks to Lindsay who disguised it as very un-camera-like so nobody would steal it […]