The Quilt Quine

I decided to leave the Yurt rafters and doors strapped onto the Landrover roofrack and Freya accused me of driving around like a hippie loa...

I drove from Aberdeenshire to North London in 11 ½ hours, listening to BBC Radio 4 and eating rather a lot of sweets. A long journey like t...

There is nothing like a lack of time to concentrate the mind. Despite having had months to prepare the Yurt for its exhibition at Stitch an...

I resent the time that is wasted by being ill! At the start of the week I had a couple of days feeling under the weather and all of the goo...

I have been waiting impatiently for the Postie to deliver Christmas fabric for a couple of weeks; I expect it has been waylaid by HM Cust...

I couldn't really go off quilting in the workshop all during half term; instead, I tackled long the overdue chore of clearing out the s...

Amazingly, we have had no lying snow so far this winter, despite significant amounts in the South for a change. I am not unduly upset at th...

I taught three distinctly different types of pupil this week. One day I was a relief art teacher for 9-12 year olds, on another I taught p...

For some reason I have had the word "discombobulated", meaning confused or muddled, stuck in my head and it seems an appropriate ...

It took me a whole day to do all of the sums required to complete the tax return that I could have done months ago. In theory a spreadshee...

The week got the off to a gentle start when the children returned to school without a single flake of snow scuppering my plans but I stocke...

Despite my good intentions, things are not yet back to "normal" after the festive season. It has been all too easy to get up lat...

Starting a New Year feels rather like the end of a party; there is a certain amount of tidying up to do before gearing up to new projects....

The week before Christmas went by in a blur. I quilted non-stop so that the African quilt would be ready for special delivery Christma...

I know there are 52 weeks in a year and I could plan early for Christmas but it never happens. Maybe one year it would be fun to do all of...

I had originally planned to cut off the awkward edges of the African tumbler blocks but that would have been taking a shortcut and I conced...

My whole schedule went by the wayside this week as I was under the weather for a couple of days. Being ill is such a waste of time so I aft...

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...