The Quilt Quine

We had a lovely few days in the New Forest catching up with cousins whom we have not seen in 16 years. There were picnics, movie nights, wal...

  This week we have been on our holidays for the first time since 2019. We hired a van and drove down to visit my family in Norfolk. It was ...

  A peacock arrived at my house this week - there are peacocks 2 miles away and across a river so I wonder if he had been kidnapped and dump...

  I am getting quite a few calls from quilt customers that start off with, “Are you busy?” I am busy enough;) On a very productive week I ca...

  Don’t tell Nicola but we paid Freya a quick mid-week visit in Glasgow... Nella’s doctor said it was a good idea since she had never seen w...

  This week felt almost like the old “normal”. I got 3 customer quilts done with all-over patterns and sent a box of quilts back to Frances ...

  Freya has been home this week and it has made such a difference having her around. We had a trip to Rosemount in Aberdeen where we trawled...

  As I sit to write my weekly blog during this long Pandemic, I wonder what I have been up to all week. My life is not as busy and chaotic a...

  It may still feel like winter here but otherwise things are looking sunnier. Freya has been home for a visit for the first time since Chri...

It’s all very well sitting on the sofa criticising contestants on the Sewing Bee on TV for making silly mistakes but if I was ever selected ...

I am a coffee snob with a penchant for collecting stovetop espresso makers. Freya should be able to come and stay next month so I wondered w...

  I am still working on the “Christmas Friends” customer quilt... just doing an hour here and there. My quilting stamina is not what it once...

  At the start of this week Nella was seriously ill, not eating, dizzy and fainting. Her doctor was phoning hospitals, looking for a bed. Sh...

I need a schedule in Life otherwise I would probably feel as though I never got anything done. I write lists for the joy of crossing things ...

  I finally committed to getting the FOQ sampler, “as You Like It”, done from start to finish. I did nothing else in my workshop all week, j...