A few weeks back we (Jonathan and myself) were delivering our last piece of furniture (from our now finished furniture making business) to a local customer. As we were saying goodbye, she took me aside and asked me if I would be interested in some antique linens. Well as you can imagine I was certainly …
I have just heard from Mary, my mini quilt swap partner, that she has finally received my little offering. You may remember I gave you a sneak preview a few weeks back. But here is the whole thing! It is called ‘Tudor Vine’ as the inspiration was of a black and white photo of a …
I know that quite a few of my readers are primarilly interested in quilts and are not particularly interested in my intermittent crochet posts, so here is an attempt to get you quilters more interested in crochet – a patchwork crochet cushion! Just think of it as woolly quilting… Sadly it is another Farewell Cushion. …
It’s finally finished! Well almost… Regular readers will have seen a sneaky peek a few weeks back but, many hours of hand quilting later, I have got it finished enough to include it in the wonderful Blogger’s Quilt Festival. It is a special surprise quilt for my sister’s 60th birthday (which was on Tuesday). …
I have finally found some time to make a start on my mini quilt for the 6-12″ mini quilt swap on Flickr. Above is a sneak preview. It is quite challenging as it can’t be square or rectangular (I have found a clever way round this without resorting to a circle!), and must only use …
I am trying something new out on the blog. I have been recommending quite a few craft books on the blog over the last few months and, even if we sell them in the shop and I could mail order them, I have always just added a link to Amazon. The reason being that I …
Here’s something I have been working on for a while. I actually made the first of these teacup pincushions at the same time as I made my hanging patchwork fishes.I made the 5 teacups first from old pattern book scraps and my own pattern. It would look a bit more like a teacup if I …
I managed to save one piece of furniture from our gigantic furniture sell-off at the shop to go in my sewing room. This quite beautiful, and capacious, white chest of drawers.It was half price for ages but nobody seemed interested and I couldn’t bear to reduce it any further as I really wanted it for …
For the last 10 years I have worked just about every Saturday in our shop. We used to sell kitchens and furniture and have 2 shops so I always needed to be in to take orders. Last Saturday was the final day for our second shop, the furniture has now all been sold and we …
Do you remember this lovely pattern I started a few weeks back? I blogged about it here.Well I have finished the cushion and I’m really chuffed with it. I think it is the nicest thing I have crocheted so far.I have just realised that it would have been better to photograph it against a darker …