I decided that my charity knitting project was going to be knitted knockers (prostheses for breast cancer survivors), and that will be where my focus remains, but I was encouraged to help out at a recent craft bee at Calico … Continue reading
I have not been shouting this from the treetops, but my goal for this year was to sew one humidicrib cover a month, as I did in 2015. I had a plan for the rest of the year. I was … Continue reading
Two years ago (I was shocked to realise it has been that long), I decided to start a new quilt from scraps. I had planned to make at least one block each month as part of my Bee, Myself and … Continue reading
Bye-bye, baby quilts. The last binding on the last humidicrib quilt has been sewn on, and they have all gone to the coordinator of my quilting association’s community quilts program to be taken to the hospitals’ neonatal units. I promised … Continue reading
Do you have a hard time letting go of things you have made? I have been looking critically at some of my finished and unfinished quilts and have decided that it is time to let a couple go and to … Continue reading
I have been keeping any New Year’s resolutions and goals pretty close to my chest. I really only have three vague craft goals for the year: Finish projects I have started or not started but bought the yarn/pattern/fabric for. This includes making … Continue reading
Today I said goodbye to my two scrappy humidicrib quilts, and I also bade farewell to a lap quilt I had been making to donate. It was a good thing I had marked them for donation before I even started … Continue reading
The author of a quilting book I read some time ago wrote that she keeps any scraps larger than 1½ inches. I took this advice to heart, and started to squirrel away tiny scraps. Recently I have been looking at my … Continue reading
This year, members of my sewing group have been busily making quilts to donate to various causes as part of the WAQA’s community quilts program. I have had great fun making tiny quilts, which have all been given to a … Continue reading
Granny Mauds Girl 