Happy New Year!

At the start of 2011, I would not have imagined some of the things that have happened on the quilting front. I would not have imagined that: My blog would grow from nothing to over 250 followers That I’d have such awesome contacts and sponsors as the Fat Quarter Shop, Pink Castle Fabric and Aurifil

More excitement and great generosity comes my way

I have two thoughts echoing in my head today. The first is that sometimes things that are very easy for us to do for others can make a big difference to them. And secondly, what goes around comes around. I had a lovely sewing day today with the gorgeous MissyMac. We played with her new

FMQAL – Pre-preparation

 Here are a couple of pre-preparation bits I’ve been doing for the QAYGFMQAL.🙂 Quick quiz question for you: Lucy and others pointed out that I haven’t put in the total amount of solid material you need on the requirements list. That is because:a) it depends on what size quilt you are doingb) I am lazyc)

TGIFF the Hide-n-Seek edition

I suppose as the last TGIFF for the year, I should do a recap of all the year’s quilts… But it’s just been too busy to even think about it. I just opened my blogreader for the first time in days and I am ALL OVER THE QUILTOSPHERE! I knew from the number of entries

Choose your own Free Motion Adventure QAL

Before I forget, Thank Goodness It’s Finished Friday is over at LifeUnderQuilts this Friday. If you have a finish, hop over and join in! And now, back to our regular programming and a few more details about the FMQ Quilt-a-long. As I mentioned in an earlier post, you’re going to have choices – this is

Laura’s choice bundle

Wow! I’m amazed at the response to this competition already! The first entry was up less than  an hour after I posted – I spent AGES on the FQS site drooling and deciding. I thought I was ok with picking fabric, but the entries so far leave me for dead! Lucky I’m not entering! Have

Blogger’s Choice Fat Quarter Bundle

Competition now CLOSED! It’s finally here! Nope, not Christmas which a lot of you are still celebrating as I write this, but the day AFTER Christmas (known in various parts of the world as Boxing Day), which is the day I have been waiting for, the day I can reveal all… Very exciting sponsored competition!

Guest un-Hostile Takeover!

My hugely unsuccessful but vaguely entertaining blog-war with Sunni at LoveAffairWithMyBrother takes another leap today as I do a less-than-hostile takeover of her blog and reinvent my Super-Dooper-5-minute coasters. Go and take a look!

Quick excitement update

A few quick excitements…1) Cara of http://www.caraquilts.com/ is joining us as the final guest judge of the super secret Fat Quarter Shop 7.5-yard competition (oops did I let something else slip there?!) starting HERE on Boxing day (26/12). 2) I had an amusing exchange with Alex Veronelli from Aurifil who liked Giles’ idea of wrapping someone in

Bernette Vs Singer Round 2

Well my Singer Quantum L500 is back from Sydney. Or rather, a new machine is back. They replaced it. Hurrah – there’s hope, right?The loan machine had the same issues as the original, so I was a tad doubtful. We also needed to eliminate user error. My basting and technique (quilt from centre out) was