I don’t know about you, but in a world of increasing technology, being busy with a young family and living some distance from a lot of friends and family, I quite often find myself saying/writing/texting “I’m sending you a big hug”. It’s not as good as just being able to pop round and give them a hug but goes some way towards letting them know that if I lived round…

In my last post I mentioned how my sewing machine was going in for a service…although I felt a bit jittery at the idea of not having my machine I had a list of things that I wanted to sort out (mainly re-organise my sewing room) and near-completed projects that I wanted to finish. Sadly, I was wildly over-ambitious both in terms of the size of my list and the…

What I love about blogsville is having my eyes opened to lots of different crafts: some (Mr f&f for one!) would argue that I have enough projects started/on the go/wanting to start already that I really don’t need to be shown lots of new ideas. I love it though – although it often leads to sleepless nights as I’m excitedly planning what I could try out next it also helps…

I have finally finished my first ever quilt – a Disappearing Nine Patch – so exciting! This quilt started life back in May when I was talking to a friend who’s niece was turning 21: a landmark birthday that she wanted to give a memorable gift for. We started talking about cushions and then I mentioned quilts (I was still flush from having done my jelly roll quilt top which…