Quilting Progress – Finally!

In my 2018 goals post, I talked about how I really wanted to finish my first quilt this year. I'm moving in summer and, as I mentioned then, I'm not sure my sewing machine will get set up where we move to so I'm attempting, however vainly, to get it done by then. Last year…

My First Quilt – The Beginning

Having finished my table runner I decided to dive straight in to starting my quilt. The plan originally was 3 different blocks of each of the six patterned fabrics I've chosen. Each of which would be sashed in white and then joined and bordered in white too (or maybe bordered in yellow or navy if…

Crafty Update

I've been doing a lot of bitty things craft wise recently. So thought I'd do a post to update my progress on all of them. First off I'm crocheting a cowl, ostensibly for my mother but honestly I've just really wanted to do this stitch for a while. I saw it ages ago but only…

Getting into Quilting

This is going to be my year of quilting. I'm going to make my first quilt. I got everything I need for Christmas. The plan was to start straight off having 'practiced' on my table mats. In reality, I didn't do as much quilting on the table mats as I wanted to as I ran…

November Wrap-up

Lots has happened in November, mainly writing, but between the writing lots of other things have happened to. I'm going to start with the writing because it took up the main part of my month. I did Nano. And I went past all my expectations (which you can see here but what it boiled down to…