Quilting For England

I hereby charge myself with wilful neglect of a blog. Guilty, M'Lud. The problem has been mainly one of time, namely trying to do a fairly full time (yet unpaid) volunteer job at the same tim...

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Now really, after a 4 month break from blogging, surely what I need is a Start-a-Long rather than a Finish-a-Long?  Either way what I need is a good kick up the bottom. The last few months ...

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Just as well as there is not much sewing going on here at the moment - back to another weary episode of "When Toddlers get Ear Infections".  Poor little lamb has been walking about with her head...

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Where do you come from? Don't worry, I'm not searching for my roots or getting esoteric. I am just curious how my fellow quilters found quilting - or how it found them.  I am a bit of an accid...

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Going to the Fat Quarterly Retreat really reignited my sewing mojo (Sewjo?) and so the week following it I spent every spare minute rattling up a new quilt top for Siblings Together with the le...

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Having seen this mosaic many times ... and how true it is: I was very happy to see another one on Miss Rosie's blog for quilters ... also true:

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I have my computer back, hurrah!  It is like regaining feeling in a lost limb.  I have felt rather cut off from the world without it, not least because we then all decamped to the West Country ...

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I will be interested to see whether this blog post comes out more or less badly laid out on the page than the previous iPad post.  On the plus side, it is a 'proper' computer ; on the downside, ...

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Just a very quick post to confirm that I am still alive (apologies for recent blogging hiatus) and to say thank you to the many lovely folks I chatted with at FQR (more chatting than sewing if I'...

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Take heed of my sorry tale: In the battle of needle vs finger, there are no winners.  Ow.

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At last - a finish to speak of!  And happily even though this is a name tag for the Fat Quarterly Retreat , it is not a secret because it is doubling up as a belated LMQG name tag swap too.  I...

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I enjoy being in a Bee but I do feel the pressure of getting my blocks done and dusted asap.  These are April's blocks for Kate, and are called Converging Corners - here is the link to the onlin...

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FINALLY!  Nobody is ill, I don't have any accounts to do or dull meetings to go to, and everyone is in school or nursery or wherever they are supposed to be.  In celebration, I have found my ba...

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Apologies for the lack of action on this blog.  The plague of ill children has struck the Pye household again, this time knocking out any kind of fun for 3 out of the past 4 weeks.  Hopefully a...

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Hello peeps Head on over to The Village Haberdashery blog to see my daughter's Zephyr sundress featured in this week's newsletter ! (Pictures by Annie -  much better with a camera than ...

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For once I have some sewing output to show - not much (blame half term) but a little: First up, a Bee block for Tracey at QuiltMeHappy : This is the same Tracey who so expertly long-armed ...

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Back when I was young and hip (all right, just young) we used to go on a group skiing holiday every year.  It was a real motley crew - various friends of friends - and one of our group always ha...

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Perhaps one of the ironies of having a blog called "Quilting for England " is that I am actually not very good at the "quilting" bit.  More accurately my blog should be "Mainly piecing and the o...

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Apologies for the fuzzy photo (my phone) and terrible light (evening) and thankfully you can't see the dreadful tartan carpet (previous house owner) - but I am so excited to have my first Q1 FAL ...

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Hello I am going to just post a couple of pictures so I can get on and sew!  This morning is my only sewing window all week so I have to make the most of it. I have been chipping away at my ...

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Let me explain my conundrum with a tenuous analogy: Imagine you have a loaf of bread, dated tomorrow (say).  Then for some reason*, you suddenly have 2 more loaves of bread, both dated a week ...

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Oh boy.  Did ever I need the Finish-a-Long to carry on this year.  Hats off to Rhonda for hosting the fabulous 2012 FAL - which did wonders for my WIP last year - and an enormous thank you to...

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I must start this post with an apology to Liz of Dandelion Daydreams for the lateness of her (November) Bee blocks.  I am so sorry that these are late.  Two words - Christmas Fair .  Enough s...

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Until today I had not sewed a single stitch since just before the Christmas Fair , so I was delighted when I negotiated an hour and a half sewing window today after my plans to go to the LMQG we...

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Consider a jar of marmalade.  Like this one: A nice posh brand might set you back by a princely £3.  Now imagine that you decide to make your own marmalade*.  Wait!  Let me stop you bef...

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