A bear in the sewing room!
Hi everybody! My landscape fabric has been sitting like this in the sewing room for about two months. As I glanced into the darkened room…
Merry Christmas
Now tell me you haven’t said this to your machine at some stage! Merry Christmas everyone Happy Christmas quilting, Fiona
Two ways of looking at things and a lesson from firewood
I needed a laugh and some inspiration this week after watching the US election (I’m an Aussie). I hope this might take your mind off…
Dressmaking psychotherapy required…
I had an epiphany this week about dress making skills versus quilting skills. Since the 70s I’ve had severe psychological issues with fashion and clothing design.…
Evil spirits in my sewing room?
Has anyone else ever had left over evil spirits from teenagers in their sewing room? A few years ago when my youngest literally flew the coop (he’s a…
Don’t you just love Google?
Okay, so I was researching if you could wash satin… Turns out it depends on what fibres it is made from so I typed in a…
Quilter’s euphoria
Have you made a quilt that left you overcome with joy? I had a totally unexpected reaction to making my first picture piecing quilt. I was…
How far have you gone for a quilting design?
When you see quilting designs everywhere, you get to a point where you just can’t turn off you quilt radar. This can lead to some embarrassing…
Hunting for that pattern piece…
I’m pretty sure we’ve all been there. You go to sew the next two patches and one has mysteriously gone missing! You let out a scream…
Playing around with Photoshop
When I took a course on Photoshop last year, I was struggling to figure it out for the first couple of weeks. As I was getting stressed,…
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