The Quilt Quine

The Aurora Borealis quilt that I had casually named “Spinners” has a new name - I decided on “Bifrost Bridges” because in Norse mythol...

This week I was in Switzerland for 2 days at Bernina International, Steckborn. It was a little like a top secret visit to a (sewi...

There are often times when I wonder what I was thinking… I sewed all of the blocks together on the zany Aurora quilt and they ma...

All week I mass produced bias strips, pressed and fancy-stitched until I finally had enough oversized wonky squares to tr...

I was most impressed by the truck driver who managed to reverse halfway up our incredibly icy track on Monday. I thought he...

Sewing beads on may be a relaxing occupation but it does not feel like proper, productive sewing because it takes ages to s...

I made a mental note never to sew thousands of beads onto leather ever again but obviously I did not actually mean it. After a while t...

Bank holidays within holidays make it difficult to work out what day of the week it really is. There is only one cure for this wh...

Christmas started for me on December 23rd when Mo, Tania and I exchanged gifts that included socks, cushions, home-made damson ...

Radio 4 got me through the boredom of completing the unpicking and de-fluffing of the “Quilt that nearly stole Christmas”. ...

I could  no longer deny that Christmas is fast approaching so I decided to do as much shopping as possible in John Lewis, Aberdeen ...

There are times, like in the run-up to Christmas when it would be advantageous to persuade customers that their quilts would loo...

Almost all I thought about this week was figuring out how to join the top and bottom halves of Freya’s frock and get the zip in, ...

This week was spent dashing around as the kids had 3 days off because of teacher training. Some days we were in and out of town 3 o...