Another day, another swap completed! This time it’s the first round of the Goodie Bag Swap on Flickr. Make your partner a bag (or purse as I believe our American cousins call them) and fill it with a plastic bag full of fabric scraps! I got paired with someone very young and funky, so I …
Today I am taking part in Amy’s fabulous Blogger’s Quilt Festival. This is the 4th time I have taken part and it is always a highlight of the year for me. Once you have seen my quilt head on over to the festival and take a look at all the other amazing, inspiring quilts on …
After about a month I have finally gotten round to quilting the Whirligig top I made with all the lovely fabrics from Elizabeth Scott. And also managed to find some late afternoon sunshine to photograph it in. It is the biggest quilt I have FMQ’d so far, and though my machine really struggles with tension …
” What’s this?” you say, 2 posts from Bearpaw in 2 days!! Unprecedented! I know, I don’t think it has ever happened before, in fact this is the third post this week (I think I need to go for a lie down!). But I just had to share with you my excitement at being today’s …
There has been a lot of exciting activity in the world of British Quilters this week! The amazing human dynamo that is Lynne of Lily’s Quilts has started a Brit Quilt Group on Flickr for all us British Quilters to get together and share stuff. And if that’s not enough we are now busy organising …
Here is the top for Felix’s 21st birthday quilt finished (well almost, see below). I posted about the initial idea here. It is based on a computer colour tool. This has got to be one of the easiest quilts I have ever made. Once I had tracked down the wonderful Kona Solid Charm Packs (from …
I actually finished my doll quilt a couple of weeks back, but what with starting so many new projects I haven’t had time to post about it. My partner received the quilt last week and seems to be genuinely delighted with it, so phew! I was making this quilt as part of the Doll Quilt …
Before I tell you about my new project, I wanted to introduce you to a new monthly feature on the wonderful Lily’s Quilts Blog. Lynn is approaching her blogiversary and to celebrate she has launched Fresh Sewing Day. This will be a monthly event where bloggers are encouraged to share a project they are working …
Remember how happy I was a few weeks back when I received all those lovely FQ’s of Elizabeth Scott’s ‘Red Rose Farm’ fabric directly from Elizabeth herself? Well I was desperate to get them cut up and sewed back together again as soon as possible! And like everybody else recently, I have been so …
A few weeks back I made a tickertape cot quilt as part of the latest ORBC quiltalong. Deeroo was hosting the quiltalong on her blog and I posted about the quilt I made here. Well that quilt sold in my shop really quickly and since then I have had it on the top of my …