The Quilt Quine

Midsummer was damp and cool again this year and I was secretly glad not to be camping at a Festival, even though Glastonbury looked great o...

I admitted that my sore throat was not getting any better and finally phoned the surgery but predictably, it proved impossible to speak to...

It was a good thing that I got on with several projects early on in the week to make up for some "lost" time later on. The trapun...

$Sparkzz!@*&>!!:( My week got off to a great start as I multi-tasked baking flapjacks, bagels and a loaf on Monday flying between dy...

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...