I quilted and bound Connor’s red string quilt a few days ago. Echo stitching around the block seams the same as his brother’s version and bound in the same fabric. I ended up using some flannelette from my stash, a bright blue with skulls and crossbones on it. The flannelette I backed it with wasn’t pre-washed and shrunk more than I had intended, making it really crinkley on the front. I don’t mind though, this quilt is going to get [...]

Only a mild fail this week with a canvas that went wrong, making this week officially better than the previous one! I’ve been wanting to make up some silhouettes of the boys for a few months now, but I rarely visit the paper section of any craft stores and so kept on forgetting to pick up the black card. I’m super happy with how these came out, they only took about half an hour each, and I had a lot [...]

I read A LOT of craftblogs, I love the huge amount of inspiration out there on the internet and the generosity of people wanting to share their skills with the world. So yesterday when I stumbled onto Knock Off Wood after finding a link on Craft Rookie, I was gobsmacked. I sat there for a couple of hours and read through Ana’s entire archive, and promptly made a list of every single project I wanted to make – preferably before [...]

Between going away for the weekend, and spending the week preparing for going away for the weekend, I haven’t managed to get much done this week. What I did get done was enough to consider this officially a week of craft fail. There was a failed playmat for a new baby in the family on Monday. It’s now sitting in an angry heap to the side of my sewing table where I occasionally swear at it and bemoan the fact [...]