Look what I finished up last night! The quilt top that is, not the baby – he/she still has a couple of months to go, which is a good thing, because I am so unprepared for baby day and Christmas falling on the same month, not helped of course by having a six week window in which Hercules could arrive. The top isn’t officially finished yet, there is still a little appliqué to go, but I know that’s going to [...]

Helen has asked me to spread the word about her new flickr group, Australian Scrap Quilters. She is in the process of organising a swap for people who are interested in making a scrap quilt without spending four years collecting up co-ordinating fabrics. You send off a collection of various 6.5inch squares of 100% cotton from your scrap collection and stamps for return postage, and in return you’ll receive the same amount of squares back to you in the theme [...]

I love the thought of surrounding myself in handmade items, preferably that I’ve made myself, and to me nothing seems better than sleeping underneath something that I’ve spent months creating, which is what turned me on to quilting about a year ago. Unfortunately I didn’t think this plan through very well, I’m not a very precise crafter, and I’m certainly not a patient one, something that I think is required for quilters. So quilt top after quilt top was shoved [...]