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New Pretties, aka Don’t Eat Yellow Snow
I had a chance to go to Lampeter on Friday and visit the wonderful Calico Kate, always a fun experience although my bank account doesn’t agree! However, I was quite focussed and I had a plan, so only...
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Block Party
I mentioned my plan to make squishy foam alphabet blocks for my niece’s first birthday a few weeks ago, and at last here are the finished articles! They were a lot of fun to make – I went to town with...
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Irish Charm
After my disappointment with Moda’s very cream-coloured “Snow” the other week, I couldn’t get the idea of a scrappy Irish Chain out of my head. And I couldn’t get anything into my head, either, so I...
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Sssssssssss………… BOOM!
Christmas is coming, they tell me. Thanks to the nature of crafting, it feels like I have to start thinking about Christmas presents in August to have a hope of finishing anything! But I’m off to a...
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Let it go, let it goooo!
Here’s the third cushion cover that I’m making as a Christmas present (the first two are here). It’s for a little girl, so I chose to do Elsa from Frozen as an applique – her mum tells me she’s a...
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A Trio of Cushions
And they’re finished! I used a simple envelope+buttons arrangement for the backs, luckily my favourite haberdashery stall in a local market had just the right buttons in just the right colours: And...
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Adventures in Foundation Piecing
The thing I love about patchwork and quilting is the sheer variety of techniques on offer. I’ve been doing this for a couple of years now and feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface, lol!...
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Foundation-Pieced Crane – Quilted!
Here’s what happened to the foundation-pieced crane I showed off in the last post: I rootled around in my stash and discovered some more postcard-themed fabric, which I used to set the crane on point,...
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Origami Crane Cushion
And here’s my finished Origami Crane cushion. I’m really pleased with it. It’s actually been finished for a lil while, but the weather’s been too foul (and I’ve been too busy) to take any decent...
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Science! Baby Quilt
And suddenly, a baby quilt! A good friend of mine, who I worked with for four and a half years, had her first baby a couple of weeks ago. I’d planned to make him a quilt anyway so I already had these...
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Craft Swap!
A friend from an online game and I decided to do a craft swap before Christmas. She’s a very clever beader and made me three truly fabulous bracelets. In return, I am making her a wall hanging using...
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Oh, Christmas Tree!
Right now, in my head, that sounds like a euphemism for something ruder. And it’s all my own fault, too. Really, I don’t know what I was thinking. The general concept – applique a bunch of green...
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Frogging in the Frost(Byte)
So…. yeah. I’ve had this kicking around for a while now and I found I kept making excuses not to do anything with it. Slowly I’ve come to the realisation that this is because I really, really don’t...
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Origami Crane Pattern and Tutorial
At long last I’ve managed to do a tutorial for my Origami Crane block (finishes at 12″). I’m planning to request it as my block in an online quilt block swap, so it seemed only fair to provide some...
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Crane Wall Hanging – Finished!
Hooray! The Origami Crane wall hanging is finished, bound, labelled and on its way to its new home in Kentucky! (It is straight, I promise – it’s just the pole is sitting cock-eyed!) The cranes were...
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A Shimmer and a Sparkle
I have been a bad, bad girl. 2016 is the year of adding to the stash, right?! :p Help me out here, Molli! In my defence, I bought some of this before Christmas and the rest before I noticed all...
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Quilting the Christmas Tree
Yesterday was quilt club and I had no idea what I wanted to work on, so I grabbed a miscellaneous selection of projects to take with me, including the Christmas tree advent calendar I’ve been working...
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Cosmic Quilt Inspiration
I love the idea of space travel. Love it. Along with many others, I watched breathlessly in December as Major Tim Peake and his co-astronauts launched from Kazakhstan on their way to the ISS, and...
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Lovely Bubbly!
After my shameful confessions of fabric hoarding recently, some good news on the other side of the coin – some stash-busting projects! My craft-swap gifts and the baby quilt below have come entirely...
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Mug Rugs – Using Iron-On Vinyl
I love a good experiment! I’m planning to make some items that I might want to use iron-on vinyl for, so I decided to order some and have a play with it to see what it can (and can’t) do. I wanted to...
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