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The text in this posting is copied with her permission from an email by Jenny Bowker  and the gorgeous photos are taken from her Pinterest ...

Remember Lily and Gus , the Etsy shop I featured here in March? I got one of their whales for my youngest son, who loves cuddly toys. I g...

After the last posting I received an email from Cherilyn Martin , an English quilter living in the Netherlands. She had read the article abo...

This exhibition sounds very interesting, I have put my thinking cap on! (actually the quilt I am working on at the moment fits the size r...

Long time no blog - I have been very busy since the last posting but haven't got much to show for it. I finished the Animal Kingdom ...

Unless you are living on the moon you will by now have heard about the flooding in Queensland , Australia. The Brisbane River reached its pe...

My two oldest boys had Letterland Day today at school and both wanted to dress up as ZigZag Zebra. So I made them some pants and t-shirts w...

After finishing a quilt (or as in this case, several quilts) I usually feel like doing some small, fun projects. So yesterday I made silk pa...

I've finished the top for the Art Quilts Around the World challenge and sent it off to Melbourne. Time for a new project! Yesterday I t...

I am glowing with pride after reading Lyric Kinard's blog post about me ! I did her Freeform Screen Printing class at Quilt University ...

I finally made a freezer paper screen of another biker and printed it - this one is based on a pic of my second son Ernst (5) riding a bike ...

As you may have noticed, I have given this blog a facelift in the last few days. I have changed the header, cleaned up the sidebar and, most...

Twenty three years ago on this day, December 1st 1986, my mother died. She was 44 years old and I was 17. It makes me sad that I have alread...

I haven't done any sewing in the last week, as I have been (and still am) very busy turning our emigration blog into a book, using this...