The Quilt Quine

I was determined to get my Houston entry finished this week so after teaching 9 and 10 year olds how to throw a sponge javelin on Mo...

The next time I plan to make a competition quilt I might just allow a little more time to order the necessary materials. The copper fabr...

On Bank Holiday Monday I informed my children that the next time I take them shopping collectively will be when they are all over 25...

I had a wonderful Monday morning catching up on paperwork and emails and was enjoying a leisurely cup of coffee when the phone start...

When I was not confiscating contraband items from school children this week I started to look into some quilt competitions for The Ostrych...

Since I have been on a roll with the Norse series, I made an effort to crack on with quilting the piece that looks rather like seaweed. T...

We had a great family holiday in Edinburgh, travelling by train from Stonehaven. There were times when the children wished we had taken the...

When I attempted to upload my weekly blog onto my website earlier this week I was horrified to discover that Blogware had ceased to exist a...

Although I had told myself to leave plenty of time to pack for my Yurt expedition to Newcastle, I ended up teaching in school for two days....

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...