The Quilt Quine

It has been hard to tear myself away from my latest fiction addiction and concentrate on writing my book about a quilted Yurt while I have ...

I made a trip down to Glasgow in the Landy to do a talk about my quilts and travels for "The Glasgow Gathering of Quilters". The...

I paid the ransom in customs and received the Accuquilt GO cutter that I had ordered ages ago from the USA. I was really impressed at how n...

Things were not going according to plan on Thursday; maybe it was due to the tail end of Hallowe'en influences! First, three days'...

By now I should know better than to plan out my week. I received two phone calls from schools on Monday asking me to do some supply teachi...

Landrover dashboards were obviously designed to hold salt, vinegar and pots of mushy peas. We had an uneventful train trip back from Norfol...

Norma made an excuse to take friends, Ina and Kay to Chicago IKEA so they very kindly took me to the airport afterwards. A cheeky person i...

Friday was a busy teaching day at the Museum, spending time demonstrating and doing hands-on sessions with the APQS Lenni. There was a mini...

Sunday was yet another beautiful day when Norma and I set out on our drive to Wisconsin. We drove past traditional wooden farmsteads, red b...

On Monday I did a little exploring around Des Moines on my own as I would be waiting until the afternoon for the Yurt to arrive from Wisco...

After I battled my way through half of a giant waffle that I made myself at the hotel breakfast buffet, Norma collected me and we went off...

I have always had success with dyeing up until now but I was not pleased with the results when I decided to run a colour through my hair fo...

I joined North East Open Studios way back in the spring and really did not know what to expect. I lined myself up with some projects to ke...

Thanks to Kay for sending me a photo of the Yurt at Perth...! Mo and I had a whole two days of "raking" together when we took the ...

My main task for the week was to produce the handouts and patterns for my forthcoming USA trip. I had to run up a string of bunting to chec...

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...