Hi Smites I hope your day is great! We are going to start sewing a block, or a few blocks, or even a whole quilt if you get excited. I hope you’ve all enjoyed them…. anyone got anything burning away in their minds that you’d like from StitchyMites next, or down the line? If you’re looking something a bit more complex, that you can change or tone your colours down and find

Once I had drawn it I laid it down over the quilt - nope. goes from the border into the main body of the quilt, but I didn't want to have to appliqué onto the whole

deadline for my fabric collection next Friday, so if you think I’m ignoring my panic and squashing it down

Hi Smites Things are settling down again here... things on the Charlie end are still not wonderful as

I don't know what made me slow down, but apparently it's a worldwide trend - the non reading of books You can go at your own speed. Or watch the two TV series of his books that are out at the moment - Slow Horses and Down Cemetery Road Grief and anger and hope and love together. I hope she never stops writing them!

Well Miss Tula is home safe in Missouri and I’ve nearly caught up on all the work I didn’t do while she She has used all her own fabrics of course, so everything you see here is Tula Pink of some sort. Tula was very jealous she couldn’t use the linen, but she always regrets not using her own prints so 'When I was a child I believed that every hill I saw was simply where a dinosaur laid down and died and I was pretty good at it, considering this was my own theory I was correct 100% of the time.

Don’t get me wrong, he likes a dip when it’s hot, but he’s often happy to wander up and down the beach I am absolutely loving it, I can’t put it down!

You know when you've had a wonderful holiday, and then you come home and all the STUFF crowds in and I hope they're not perching on the stools to watch the royal personage sleep though.  long waterway, I am standing outside Versailles itself, and the Trianon and Petit Trianon are right down I hope you're enjoying my trip through a screen :) More next week - we went to the recently opened and

design this quilt about 6 months ago, but it's only in the last 2 weeks that anything has actually gone down So that I won't have to redraw the whole thing a million times over, I tend to make changes on smaller , I will go over the whole sketch with a pencil and circle the parts that are appliqué.  That's when I have to look at my favourite magnet above my computer and remind myself hahaha  Anyway I hope

I’ve been holding such a secret in. I’m excited to say I’m a new FreeSpirit Fabrics designer!

Hi StitchyMites, I hope you’re having a nice Wednesday. packages of yardage (we may have added some other shopping while we were there…) and we wandered off down

Using my Perfect Circles method they will be quick to turn and stitch down! Anyhoo I hope these ideas give you something to think about if you're joining the Courting Sew Along!