As the last few months have all run into each other it follows that my blog post is similar. I haven't as yet lost my enthusiasm to get some UFOs done and dusted making use of all this extra time. First up isn't really a UFO as it was only started a few months ago in anticipation of a birth - baby not quite due but her quilt is awaiting............ For the binding of this quilt I brought the backing forward to the front and machine stitched it down. I have never actually done this before and am quite happy with the result - I wanted to use the same fabric as backing for the binding so i ..read more

Continuing on immediately from last month, I can confirm another lockdown finish with my very large Bella Solids Sampler from 2017.   A bit picture heavy - after joining the three sections I went back in to quilt all the solid white sections, just crossing over the lines already there to give a checkerboard look. I loved the binding and for the first time, I machined the binding down. I was more than happy with the look of it and it saved me 4 sides of an 85" quilt.  It was just after I started quilting this one that I found out that my niece Jaime was rather more front ..read more

So, continuing in the spirit of last month's blogpost, I think I'll continue to catalogue my makes since then rather than comment or chew over our shared experiences. I left you all with the completely scrappy log cabin which I felt was made with a fervour I rarely display in the sewing room. After making the Log Cabin section I decided to grow it into a medallion style quilt and kept going, rather ignoring my personal plan to finish UFOs during lockdown. I made another quilt top - this came in at about 54" square and has joined the "waiting to quilt and bind" queue. Highlighted below is t ..read more

How the world can change in a month! I plan to concentrate here on recent sewing pursuits.  I find myself in a Grandchild free zone so thankfully my sewing, being allowed out for a walk, and being fortunate enough to have a garden all makes it easier to cope. Face Time is a big help too. So March saw the joint birthday of two grandchilren, brother and sister, just 7years apart! For Ava's first birthday I made rather an elaborate fabric book with each month depicting a significant development in her first year. Before her brother Murray came along, we were blessed with another Grand daughter ..read more

Following on from my discounted pattern last week, the Covid 19 crisis has intensified. Many of you will be isolated and perhaps looking for a new sewing project. If you click on the FREE PATTERNS page above you will have access to three patterns which are yours, free, at the click of a button. Enjoy, and stay safe everyone ..read more

There's no denying we are experiencing unprecedented times - we are all thinking and talking about one thing. So in an effort to divert myself and offer a litttle cheer I thought I'd figure out how to discount one of my popular patterns. So from today, 15th March, untill 22nd March, you can get a huge 50% discount on my Mega Pinnie Pattern. Just use this link and it will take you directly to my Etsy shop. If you need to enter a Code it is Mega7. https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/bluepatch22?coupon=MEGA7 Enjoy xx ..read more

I felt the need to make sure I blogged this month especially the 29th February!! So I feel I have been quite busy in the sewing room this month but will wait until March to share a couple of gift items that I'd like to remain a secret. I was in the mood for a little scrap playing but lately have liked to keep my scraps in some sort of colour order, have moved on from the dog's dinner stuff that I have indeed produced in times past. So I started with scraps of a Lewis and Irene range, Big Bear Little Bear and hopefully keeping to a sort of controlled palette I added strips to squares until ..read more

January doesn't seem to have been as endless as it usually is and I am feeling reasonably pleased with my progress for the month. I continued with my hot water bottle covers making them after reading Helen's success in making hers more rectangular than bottle shaped. I made a normal sized one - Then a wee one - very squinty stitch and flip! and for comparison - In recent months whilst browsing Pinterest I found lots of articles and instructions for making a burrito style pillowcase - I hadn't come across this technique and became slightly desperate to try it out. ( Do have a br ..read more

So, another decade begins and I am still not up to scratch with my blogging. Like most of you, the run up to Christmas is alway so busy. I can see from my last blog that my Christmas sewing must have started pretty much after Halloween and first project was a stocking for youngest Grandchild, Murray. I used my favourite pattern from an old Thimbleberries book, I love its traditional look and usually add in the name using my embroidery machine. Moving on from this, I had planned, in my head, a book cushion for each of my nephews. I looked on Pinterest and on blogs and cobbled up a mixture o ..read more

I have discovered, as far as sewing projects go, that I like a deadline. I say, for sewing projects, as it clearly doesn't apply to my blogging. I was sorry to miss a post last month, I knew the end of the month was creeping up on me and I was full of good intentions.................. Another lesson I have learned of late, I don't seem to multi task so easily as I get older - has this happened to you too? i just seem to get a bit exciteable and flustered if I have too many balls in the air - Old Lady Syndrome out to get me!! Anyway, back to sewing. I know one or two of you were interested i ..read more