Every year at about this time I have the same feeling. The fresh airiness of the house after I’ve cleared all the Christmas decorations makes me realize just how cluttered everywhere else is. The rest of my family are an untidy bunch and inveterately hoard everything imaginable, so it’s always a real battle to keep […]

Today when I should have been working on my fireworks blocks, or going to church or engaging in a little light housework, I was doing something infinitely more exciting. Something I hadn’t really anticipated ever doing. Or having fun doing at least. But as I’m determined to do new things and going outside my comfort […]

I have spent hours and hours of precious sewing time dithering around, flicking through my gazillions of quilting books, all the articles I’ve cut out over the years…..I finally came down to Carrie Nelson’s Simple City pattern and just as I was about to start cutting I noticed some very fine pencil marks in the […]

This is my next project. Isn’t it so good you could eat it? It’s Rouenneries Deux by French General. I love, love, love the combination of the browns and beiges and that lovely rich red. I’d actually set this afternoon aside to get started. And have I? Nope. All I’ve done is dithered around looking […]

Thank you so much for all your great suggestions on what I should use my beautiful boxes for…..so far I’ve used three of the boxes to sort out my threads (which were previously in a horrible jumble in a great big box where I could never find what I wanted)…… Don’t they look nice? I […]