Doorstop

In my bid for Total House Domination, I needed a doorstop for my Fabric Stash Room - so I had to make one.

Learn and move on....

A while ago now I signed up for a patchwork competition - it was for the Make and Mend festival in Leicester. The outline was to make a practical patchwork item from recycled fabric. I made my City and Guilds bowl from shirts:

The festival was yesterday and I dragged Mark over there so I could pick my bowl back up. The place was packed -people everywhere - some of them unwashed. We had to ask where the competition entries were because we couldn't find anything to be told the winning quilt had already been taken home. We went to look for my bowl - couldn't find it. There were about 3 quilts and one shopping bag on a wall -no bowl. Had to ask again and the lady took us back into the room and produced my bowl - still in the cardboard box I had posted it in - from under a chair. She said she really liked it but was worried about displaying it. Mark and me came out laughing but I won't do that again.

Lutterworth Piecemakers Exhibition

I have not been a member of this group for over two years but I still managed to get a quilt into their exhibition!

Two more reasons

Why I sometimes struggle with doing binding

Fred FARTing

My Dad will tell anybody who will listen that I am into Patchwork and Quilting - I don't know how he gets it into the conversation but he does. When Mum and Dad (Fred and Wilma) were out walking Max the other week in a wood in Wales, they met a lady called Mary who told them about a local patchwork shop that was closing down - they were shutting the shop but going into business more on-line. Long story short, Fred told me and I sent him on a Fabric Acquisition Road Trip:

I requested purple. Mum paid. They did good! I think it was a sympathy gift as I have been in the wars. 6 stitches on my foot which has been VERY painful and I struggled to hobble round the house for a few days. Getting better now though.

Bridlington again and Total House Domination

I have just come back from a retreat at Bridlington. Jan Hassard - the same as last year which means I have added another three UFOs to my ever growing pile..... Day one was Infinity Squares:

I did 4 our of the 12 squares on the day but have noticed an error which I have decided I can't live with and will alter (most unusual for me). Day two was Undulations:

On the day I got row 1 and row 2 mixed up and had to unpick and sew them back together, only to realise that I had done exactly the same thing again and sewn them round the wrong way..... More unpicking to do.... Day three was Twisting Triads:

and I haven't spotted an error in that one yet...... Before we went away, my attempt at Total House Domination began - progress so far: