Now Christmas is over and the presents have been opened I can share with you a few more of the gifts I have been making over the last month.Here are 2 little baby elephants made for the 2 new baby boys born this year.This one is for Ewan who I made the cot quilt with …
First of all, mucho apologies for not posting at all in the last two weeks. It’s just the time of year, too much to do at work, Christmas shopping, along with a visit to my folks and the most time consuming thing of all, making lot’s of my christmas presents! So here’s a sneak preview …
Welcome to a beautiful, sunny, winter’s day in South Edinburgh! I am going to take you on a short tour of the area where I live. No crafting today just some healthy exercise and fresh air and lot’s of interesting things to see.Above is the lovely, sandstone, terraced street that we live on. Our house …
I have been having great fun making these crochet corsages for Christmas presents. Each one is a bit different as I am making then up as I go along. I couldn’t really find a pattern I liked so have just been experimenting. It is very satisfying putting the different colour combinations together and choosing the …
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 …