Our oldest daughter, the one who received the Turquoise Scraps quilt for her birthday, has brought me the most beautiful Mother’s Day card! She cut pictures out of magazines and recreated the Buttonberry (Note: Link Updated 30-8-11) block that I used for her turquoise birthday quilt and also for her queen-size black, red and white [...]
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Costume Week (and “Too Good to Cut” update)
Posted in Family Life, tagged "Too Good to Cut" Challenge, Egyptian mummy costume, muslin, Quilting, Sewing on March 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My daughter’s school celebrated Book Week this week in conjunction with World Book Day on March 4, and one day, the students were allowed to dress as characters from their favourite books instead of wearing their usual school uniforms. My young daughter recently had an opportunity to meet the author John Malam, and she received [...]
Birthday Girl (Turquoise Scraps quilt)
Posted in Family Life, Quilting, tagged birthday quilt, Design Wall Monday, Quilting, Sewing, turquoise scraps quilt on March 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I finished quilting the Turquoise Scraps birthday quilt today, just in time to deliver it to our oldest daughter when she came over for dinner and cake to celebrate her birthday this evening. Here’s the front… and the back… and our beautiful Birthday Girl. She likes her quilt. Happy 19th Birthday, Sweetheart! Happy Quilting!
Christmas surprise from Texas :)
Posted in Family Life, tagged Quilting, Sewing, Texas on December 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I just got the most wonderful Christmas present from my best friend in Austin, Texas. She writes the blog, Blue Eyes and Bluebonnets. It’s a Texas care package! It has lots of things that I cannot buy here in England and really miss from “home” — Luzianne tea bags (for “real” iced tea!), Kraft macaroni [...]
A Patchwork of Pumpkin Seeds
Posted in Family Life, tagged 101 Cookbooks, cooking, Halloween, Heidi Swanson, Jack-O-Lanterns, Quilting, Sewing, toasted pumpkin seeds on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My husband and daughter had a good time carving their Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns last night. I just wanted the pumpkin seeds for toasting, and they did all the hard work for me! Heidi Swanson at 101 Cookbooks has a wonderful recipe for Toasted Pumpkin Seeds, and I used her basic method for making my own little [...]
Dry Stone Patchwork
Posted in Family Life, tagged cows, dry stone walls, gardening, quilt patterns in nature, Quilting, Sewing on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We have lovely neighbours. Here they are, enjoying an evening snack. The day before yesterday, we noticed one of these lovely ladies poking her head over the dry stone wall that borders our property, trying to eat the mint plants from last year’s vegetable garden. Then, when I was making dinner yesterday evening, I happened [...]
A beautiful day….
Posted in Family Life, tagged I Spy Squares quilt, Quilting, quilts on the clothesline, Sewing, Trip Around the World quilt on May 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
…for washing quilts and drying them on the clothesline. It’s so nice to finally see the sun in our corner of Yorkshire. Happy Sewing!
We are a resourceful lot
Posted in Family Life, tagged cutting mats, quilting rulers, unusual uses for quilting tools on April 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Quilting people can do anything. We really can. Measure, measure, measure….cut, cut, cut…change the shape and put it all together again. Today we had new flooring installed in our kitchen, following a plumbing disaster which ruined the old floor. We have a closet in our kitchen which I call the “pantry” and my husband calls [...]
Happy Mother’s Day (in the UK)
Posted in Family Life, tagged Mother's Day UK, Mothering Sunday, Quilting and Sewing, Sewing on March 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today in the United Kingdom, it is Mother’s Day. Traditionally known as “Mothering Sunday,” it always falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and the date and month can vary from year to year. It is believed to have originated in the 16th Century, when people would visit their “mother church” on that particular Sunday [...]
I’ve been tagged…..
Posted in Family Life, tagged 5 Things Game, blog friends, tagged on November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My new friend Jessie at the Threads of Life blog has tagged me in the “5 THINGS GAME”. Gosh, you really scared me at first — I misread one of your headings, and I thought it said “55 Things on Today’s To-Do List.” Whew! I had to really think about some of these answers — [...]
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