Lola

It was a friend’s birthday this week, and it sneaked up on me. In a mad rush, I made a large Lola pouch with Cotton + Steel cat fabric and Robert Kaufman Shetland flannel in ocean. She loves cats and greeny-teal …

Starting and finishing

Last week, I went a bit wild and started four projects in four days. We know we should not, but we all do it, right? On day 1, I started cutting out templates and pieces for a Christmas tree skirt I have …

More knitting and a few hours at the sewing machine

Not more knitting? Yes. Sorry! I am still working on my quilt-show entry, which I cannot yet share, so you have to put up with yet another knitting post. This knitted hat was made for my teenage god-daughter using Shannon Cook’s …

Manly socks

Please do not judge me when I say that I have been married for a very long time but that these socks are the first things I have knitted for my husband. From what I can gather, he had some …

Rasberry beret

Yes, it is not really a beret, but do you think I could stop humming Prince’s song while I knitted it? Diana sent me a gorgeous ball of cashmere-blend yarn. It was so very lovely and soft that I am …

Scrap box challenge: Quilted cushion

Last weekend, I should almost certainly have been doing something else, but I decided to make a cushion. I blame a lovely parcel of scraps I received in the mail from Susan of Patchwork n Play, Pinterest and Amanda Jean …

Proud parent

My stepdaughter, Emily, has been busy sewing peg bags as gifts for her friends. Even though she is using my free peg bag tutorial, she lives on the other side of the country and these are all her own work. I suspect she …

Bowl

According to Instagram, I made this experimental free-motion quilting sample a year ago. It sat in my UFO collection until a week or two ago, when I started picking friends’ brains for ideas. To use it up, making a vinyl zipper …

A tea mat

Still inspired by Minki Kim’s Sew Illustrated, I made this mini quilt. It is sort of a hybrid between the tea mat and the dessert mat in her book, and it is a good size for a mug rug or something to …

Liberty and linen coin purses

If you follow Serena at SewGiving, you will know that a few months ago she made some really cute little purses for her daughters to put their teeth in for the tooth fairy. What you did not know is that she …