The Quilt Quine

My sewing machine ploughed admirably through yards and yards of industrial Velcro and eventually all of the new USA Yurt quilted roof secti...

Adrenaline seems to have kicked in for the run up to my USA trip. Instead of my usual 500 word weekly ramble, you will be lucky to get a fe...

  On Tuesday I drove around the countryside dropping my children off at their various billets on my way to Birmingham with the Landy full ...

  In order to stop myself from panicking that my Yurt Tour of America's plan had gone awry, I made some lists then started phoning and ...

Although there are two weeks left of the school summer holidays, I think it would be fair to say that the weather has been pretty dismal. B...

Profoundly speaking, I have been comparing the various mores and lesses of the week. The children were busy with holiday clubs and one afte...

Despite not looking forward to an outing to Great Yarmouth, I had a surprisingly fun day. It is a Norfolk seaside town that is a smaller, ...

We were all packed up ready for our camping trip so I went to lock up my workshop. Noticing that there was a strong smell of elderflower c...

  I decided to concentrate on getting as much done on the quilts for FOQ as I possibly could before the school holidays. The first hurdle ...

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...