The Quilt Quine

The week started off with damaging gale force winds. The Yurt tried to take off, the henhouse blew over, branches broke off and at least ha...

I tackled a pair of boys' quilts almost as soon as the customer dropped them off as I knew that if I left them any longer they may not ...

I worked on a geometric Yurt panel this week which I have called 5 Bar Gate. It is a very basic strip quilt with vaguely Welsh/Amish inspir...

Curtains R not Us I had a great day on the beach at St Cyrus with the children on Monday, the May Day holiday. It was sunny, not windy, lov...

It was another 4-day week so I had to get stuck in and try to quilt two things at once. I rattled off 3 Yurt2 roof sections then concentrat...

I questioned my sanity when I had to ring a list of people who may be able to have my children after school when I forgot to check whether ...

Spring!! The weather was pretty good this week, indeed, unbelievably fabulous on Sunday and we even ate outside twice at the weekend witho...

We spent a great week on Mull despite some very wet weather that made part of the cliff wall collapse further down the street. It was like w...

I signed up for Mobile Me, supposedly a productivity enhancing programme to link my computer, ipad and phone so that contacts and emails wo...

I'm on the Isle of Mull without an Internet connection! I will have to wait until the Internet cafe opens later this week before making ...

I started the week determined to make good headway on the Yurt book and began by printing out everything that I have written so far. There ...

  There has been something wrong with my coffee this week. It seemed to lack flavour so I went on a quest to source some more interesting b...

Sometimes I have customer quilts that don't get quilted as soon as they arrive. This one came last year as a "no hurry" quilt ...

I spent most of the week preparing for my trip to QGBI Region 15E near Durham after getting in touch with Region 15W to apologise profusely ...

I have really fallen out with my domestic sewing machine this time. I don't think our relationship will ever be the same. It just isn...

The mid-term break was grey, wet and cold so I decided that the children could do with a dose of culture at Aberdeen Art Gallery. Although t...

I was determined to make significant progress on writing some projects to go in the Yurt book. I wrote instructions that I think are simple ...

I flew down to London this week to be at the APQS technical training course in Surrey. Despite being "Europe's Oil Capital", A...

  I expect that I really do have plenty of time for writing a book except that I have a tendency to get a little side-tracked. I have just ...

I had a birthday this week and celebrated in style with my friends and family, surrounded by pink balloons; the lucky recipient of a retro p...