Sewjournal

I know we need the rain and my garden is loving it but it does make looking out the window a little dreary. However I found a little beauty hiding away in various corners of my front garden and I thought I’d share them with you. In the meantime I’m still basting my Labyrinth design. [...]

Well I have lots to show and tell you so this will be a long post. Why not go and grab a cuppa and settle down to enjoy this textile extravaganza! The Macarthur Textile Expo Yesterday I visited the Macarthur Textile Expo at Camden Civic Centre. It was a grey, coolish late Autumn day outside [...]

It was such a difficult choice to make. You all had such great reasons for wanting to win and had wonderful colourful visions for the quilt. In the end I tossed up between someone who vowed to make it by hand as Jinny herself would and someone who would perpetuate the giving cycle by making [...]

I’ve had some great feedback on my recipes. They seem to be very popular and people are really enjoying them. Thank you everybody who has written to me about them. I had one lovely email which I have permission to share with you (but without the name). I love the idea of calling lamb pasta [...]

I just found out about this great idea. You can see a list of participating blogs here. The quilt I’m going to enter is the second quilt I ever made. I made it for my daughter and I hand-pieced the front and then I designed and machine-pieced the back and then hand-quilted it. What was [...]

The project moves forward… Well thanks to Doris’ comments and a little inspiration the project is on the move again. I had a roll of “grease-proof” paper or sandwich wrap which I have used for tracing before. However this time I used it slightly differently. First I traced the pattern onto the paper. Next I [...]

Sewing tips Two days ago I shared some sewing tips with you for the Sew Mama Sew Tip-Fest. There have been some great tips added by many experienced sewers and you can find them here and here. I’m tickled pink because they chose to feature my blog in their post along with several others! So if [...]