Well I’m back from NYC! And what an amazing city it is! We had a wonderful time and I was really upset to leave. I’m usually always pleased to get back to Edinburgh, but not this time.I managed to just about fit everything in that I planned. All the usual stuff, Empire State Building, Grand …
I had a lovely weekend with my best friend Liz. She came up from London on the train on Friday afternoon and we headed straight for the haberdashery department in John Lewis!Liz has had a terrible year fighting off breast cancer (successfully, I am very happy to say). She started this beautiful blanket made of …
As promised a few weeks back, here is the next installment from my ‘family quilt’ archive.This one is a bit special as it was made for my parents Golden Wedding Anniversary 11 years ago (they celebrated their diamond wedding last year!). It is really a fabric photo album. I had to give my father a …
We had a lovely weekend away visiting our friends, Sarah and Tim, in Wales. On the Saturday we went for a trip to Tetbury in the Cotswolds, famous for it’s antique shops. I was desperate for some wool to start experimenting with corsages for Christmas presents, so had checked ahead that there was definately a …
One of the results of writing this blog and having my Flickr page is that I have had a chance to capture and archive lot’s of older quilts that I previously only had snap shots of (or no image at all). So I took advantage of the trip I made to visit my parents last …
Sun Wheel Mandala QuiltBack in the early 1990’s the Crafts Council in London held a wonderful exhibition of ‘New American Quilts’ which I attended along with a couple of accompanying lectures. The exhibition totally blew my mind and I realised there was so much more I could do with quilting than just Log Cabin ‘quilt-in-a-day’.One …
I have recently been popping in to the lovely wool shop, K1 Yarns, in Victoria Street (in the Old Town in Edinburgh) for supplies of black wool to finish the Granny Square Afghan. It is a gorgeous shop in one of my favourite shopping streets in Edinburghhttp://www.k1yarns.co.uk/with friendly staff and nice comfy chairs to sit …
Finally completed, after 18 years!Well that’s when I started the middle (slightly faded) part of this blanket, as a cot quilt for Jacob (now 17). I obviously washed it a few times so that part has fused and almost ‘felted’ nicely.As this was the first thing I had ever crocheted, I was very fond of …
Baby Oscar (my Great-nephew) has finally arrived! Actually he wasn’t late but his mummy had convinced me he would be coming early so I’ve had the cot quilt finished for a few weeks without being able to share it.You can now see it in all it’s glory with the little ‘balloon animals’ sitting in their …
A few weeks ago I finally finished the Hot Air Balloon Cot Quilt after a long haul of embroidering rigging and lines. I was desperate to spend a day just indulging my creativity in the sewing room. I had really enjoyed using the embroidery silks and wanted to have a go at some Japanese sashiko …