Bits and bobs

I am still managing to seize a few minutes here and there for little sewing projects. I made a bee block for Sharon. Sharon and I joke that we have opposite tastes in fabric. She loves batiks and hates florals. …

Shabby or chic?

Winter storms have lingered into spring, and I pottered about in my sewing room while it rained. I made some more flowering snowball blocks, so I now have 64 blocks, enough for a 96-inch square quilt. I need to sew them together, …

A bit of this and that

Life got in the way of sewing and blogging all through May. I was busy working and moving my grandmother into residential care and out of her unit at short notice, a move that has been exhausting and stressful but …

Flashback Friday: Tea with friends

I have not dug into my archives lately, but inspired by Jennifer of A Quarter Inch from the Edge and her Throwback Thursday posts, I thought I would. As I have just finished the top of my Compass Quilters bee …

Union Jack quilt top

Back in February, I was the queen bee of Compass Quilters, and I asked my bee mates to make Union Jack blocks with my free pattern. Most of the blocks arrived on time, but I was waiting for a one or …

Possum Magic: Round 6

In an earlier post, I explained how Serena and I had to square up Rebecca’s quilt before I could start adding to it. Once that was done, I could start planning what to add as a border. I was inspired by Tessa Marie’s …

The truth about group sewing projects

One of the best sewing decisions I ever made was to join the Possum Magic round robin group (another was to join my local sewing group, but that is a story for another day). I have met wonderful sewers – …

The big reveal

Earlier this week, at one of our regular sewing mornings, my sewing group revealed the finished projects made as part of our round robin swap. The rules of our swap were simple: each person taking part put together a bag …

Compass Quilters: Ella and Nesta’s Little Room

Compass Quilters is in its second month, and Nesta from Ella and Nesta’s Little Room is our queen bee in September. Nesta asked us all to make 6-inch cross-stitch blocks using this Pile O’ Fabric tutorial. She asked for yellow, orange or pink …

Compass Quilters: One Wee Bird

Possum Magic is not the only group I joined as part of the 2014 New Quilt Blogger Blog Hop. A group of quilters from almost all points of the compass got together and started a block-based monthly quilting bee, Compass Quilters, and August is …