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Acquiring a new skill
It’s all Helen‘s fault. Oh ok, so maybe I mentioned wanting to do it first, but she pointed me in the direction of this jelly roll. The trouble is, having bought this lovely object (and I do think of...
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Embarcation
I had a lovely meeting with my midwife today, where we talked about labour and birth and the fact that my due date is now only six weeks away, and how quickly it’s gone. I do love my midwife, and it’s...
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A spot of colour
On the subject of pairing strips from a jelly roll again – I decided I could stare at them for weeks, or I could go to the shop and buy a little something to help me visualise what might come of my...
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Quilting for beginners
It’s another scorcher of a summer’s day in London, so what better way to spend it than cooped up in a small room hunched over a sewing machine?* Bearing in mind how long it took me to make the kitten...
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Trains that detour
Another lesson learned about life with a child. You think that you’re barrelling along in one direction and then the winter norovirus turns up and you’re off in another direction entirely. Add into...
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The White Post
Finally… So work can continue on the boy’s quilt. My original thought was that I’d be finished by March, but here we are in almost June and I am running to catch myself up again. Time is becoming a...
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Colouring In.
One of the joys of making my first quilt has been the necessity of playing with my coloured pencils and squared paper. With the milk roll came the time to begin piecing it together. The idea that two...
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Bring on the Winter
No. I didn’t mean it, and it has nothing to do with the house being 30degreesC either. But since the solstice has been and gone I’ve got that odd feeling I have every year: relishing the sun, with a...
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