The Quilt Quine

We made an early start on Tuesday for our epic 12-hour road trip to Bath and WOMAD.  Plenty of sweets and stops helped to pass ...

    We have been enjoying a Scottish heatwave which is wonderful but it has been difficult to get anything done. I wondered what I had...

The summer holidays got off to a good start with a week of unusually lovely weather. It has probably been 10 years since we had s...

It was both a long and a short week as we hurtled towards the summer holidays. It was so cold, miserable and like November on...

    I knew I should not have allowed myself to start an epic novel series such as "Game of Thrones" - it proved to be highly addic...

      Apart from teaching pretty demanding infant classes this week, I seemed to pick long overdue tasks such as sorting out Fenella's b...

   With 4 days in school I did not have much time to work on anything at all which is why my single day off on Friday that did not progress ...

Because I eventually managed to book up overnight accommodation in Bath and the Yurt for the WOMAD festival, I thought it might b...

      Three days of teaching does not allow much time for quilting projects but the schools are desperate for relief cover and the fun...

    When I was not teaching in school this week, I spent untold hours working on the Quilted Coracle. I used a leather punch to make holes...

As I had anticipated, I had a busy few days prior to my trip to Malvern making sure that the fridge was well stocked and that F...

I ceremonially switched on my upgraded APQS Millennium and quickly quilted a tiny quilt that will be for the kids’ piano teacher wh...

I reached the point where I was so frustrated with my appalling internet connection that I vowed I would invest in a pigeon lof...

I have to admit that I was not actually looking forward to the Uttoxeter trip... It was the thought of all of the packing, organi...

    For most of the week, I was my school-teaching alter-ego; apart from Monday when my mobile phone rang just as I arrived at school to r...