I think an update on my lockdown quilt project is overdue – and I need a bit of help with some quilty quandaries! I have been doing a little of one or more of the different processes involved each day, … Continue reading
quilty quandaries
Tag Archives: patchwork
craft as therapy (or: how to use patchwork to stay sane and hopefully find your flow)
It’s been a while since I posted last, round about the time lockdown started. I said then that I was going to go on making the small things that I make, whether or not anyone was in a position to … Continue reading
my new love
My new love is not fabric. I have been playing with fabric for as long as I can remember. As a child I always asked for – and got – those craft kits for Christmas. All through the 1970s I painted by … Continue reading
patchwork hearts
I like making things. I particularly like making one-off things. After all, most people don’t, as Ryan O’Neal demonstrates in What’s Up Doc, tend to like repeating themselves, do they? But sometimes I need to make not one of something, and not even … Continue reading
all in the detail
I do love a bit of creative upcycling. There is nothing dearer to my heart than someone who, using their creativity and talent, manages to turn the old and discarded into something new and beautiful. And quite frankly, you can’t get any more beautiful upcycling … Continue reading
using up the leftovers
This little bear was my Mothers Day gift from lad. He liked the idea of giving me a bear hug, from an actual bear. And so do I. The bear (who was made by Natali Bright) has been sitting on the … Continue reading