Messy Jesse in 2012
Hi friends! A very happy new year to you all! I wanted to welcome you all back with a look through my 2012 year, didn't it fly by! Firstly, and most importantly I made my very first quilt this year :)...
View ArticleHappy New Year SALE!
Hi friends, just a quick stop by to let you all know that I'm having a big new year fabric sale over at Sew and Quilt! Quilting fabrics reduced up to 40% OFF!What better way to spend your Sunday...
View ArticleCraft Books and New Fabric!
There's nothing I enjoy better than sitting down with a nice cup of tea and paging through some eye candy in the form of sewing and craft books. It's one of my favourite things to do, after actual...
View ArticleScappy Trip Along Quilt!
Hi friends! I've been busy working away on my scrappy trips quilt along since the beginning of the month. I wanted to jump into this project as I thought it would be a great way to start the year with...
View ArticlePam Kitty, Love!
I'm so happy that I'm stocking the wonderful new Pam Kitty Love collection by the super talented Pam Kitty Morning! It's a delightful line full of whimsical prints in a pretty colour palette of reds,...
View ArticleLatest Vintage Finds
One of the things I enjoy most about the summer is car-boot season! I love venturing through the aisles of cars, peeking through boxes and eyeing up the candy on offer, most of the time it's not great...
View ArticleScrappy Trips Quilt Finish!
Yipeee! I've finished my scrappy trip around the world quilt! I'm so super proud of this and love how it's turned out :) I don't think I would have made this is it wasn't part of a quilt-a-long because...
View ArticleChevron Quilt Top
So after the buzz and excitement of finishing the scrappy trips quilt, I was itching to get started on a new quilt project. I decided upon this chevron idea, as I love HST and can't seem to get enough...
View ArticleA Fabric Giveaway + Updates
Hi everyone! Happy friday :) I hope you've all had a good week? I've been looking forward to this weekend after a super busy week. Lot's of 'day job' hours, working on things for Sew and Quilt - some...
View ArticleFinished Chevron Quilt!
Yippee!! I've finally finished my mum's chevron zig zag quilt! I slacked off for a few days but blasted through the binding on Sunday, and managed to capture some great photo's of it in the wonderful...
View ArticleOur First Home: Dining Room Update
We've been quite busy on the house front lately, with lots of ideas planned and DIY's going on over the weekends. Robin sometimes get's fed up with the fact that every weekend - without fail! I always...
View ArticleOur First Home: Laundry Room Dreams!
Hi friends! There's not been much sewing going on around here lately as I'm in full DIY mode, and when it hits - I just have to go with it and abandon the sewing machine for a few days in order to get...
View ArticleOn my desk
Still not much productive sewing going on at the moment, but I have found some time to play with my latest fabric purchase, Shelburne Falls by Denyse Schmidt. I just love this line sooo much! It has a...
View ArticleLatest
Hi folks! happy wednesday! I hope you're having an enjoyable week so far. I hit my first car-boot of the season last week and picked up these gems. Pyrex divider dish, vintage fabric, embroidered...
View ArticleThe Little House On The Prairie Quilt
I really love the vintage, traditional feel of this quilt. I can just imagine Laura from Little House on The Prairie having it on her bed! I knew I wanted to create something like this the moment I...
View ArticleEnglish Paper Piecing, Diamonds
Happy Tuesday! I've been paper piecing some 8-point diamonds recently, which I've been itching to start playing with since they arrived at Sew and Quilt last month, but had to hold the plans until I...
View ArticleQuilty Barn Along
Happy Monday friends, I hope you are having a good start to the week! It's a bank holiday here so I've been enjoying a longer weekend with time to quilt :) so let me introduce you to my quilty barn...
View ArticleA Work In Progress ...
So it started with this ...A very messy and overflowing scrap box, which was completely impractical! With every project I would have to rummage through this banana box in search of a particular colour...
View ArticleQuilty Barn A-Long Complete!
Yippee! I finally got round to hanging up my Quilty Barn-A-Long mini quilt yesterday, and I am so pleased with it. I had finished it at the weekend but had to delay things slightly as the wall where I...
View ArticleA Little Bit Country
Happy Thursday guys! Now don't you just love a great deal, and even more so when it's from one of these huge companies that seem to rule everything. Well I do, and that's exactly what I got last week...
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