I made this tuffet using Sarah Vedeler's Happy Tuffet design.  In the hoop applique on a Bernina 730 using the mega hoop. 

I loved making these tuffets.  A large one and a mini pin cushion tuffet. 

Playing with the circular attachment on my new Bernina 790e Plus.  I love the embroidery designs on the machine.  It is so much fun just ...

I love this crystals design.  I thoroughly enjoyed making it.  Just to be layered and quilted.  Working on my new Bernina 790e plus at th...

I have had a really fun time making these folded wreaths by Poorhouse Designs .  The latest one is a Xmas wreath, 10 sections, with a little...

I took this photograph in the summer and had it printed onto fabric (size 40" x 40").  It looks quite stunning printed.  A bit ...

I have just finished reading A Talent for Murder.  Andrew Wilson has caught the right atmosphere for this book.  It caught my imagination ...

That's another quilt finished.  Just finished the binding this morning.  It was a panel I found in Kaleidoscope quilt shop, bought on...

I made this quilt a while ago.  I never seemed to have the time to get it finished.  However I sent it down to Kay Bell in the Borders to ...

It has been a while since I posted to my blog.  Time just seems to fly past.  I have been busy with classes.  They finished a week or two ag...

I have a new addition to my kitchen, a Kitchenaid mixer: do I need one, probably not, but I just couldn't resist it.  Too many colou...

The book starts right away with a murder.    Rev Aldridge is shot whilst protesting outside an abortion/health centre.   The ce...

Stephen Ah Nom was born in China and aged 6 was sent, by his grandfather, to   the US to get a   good education.   On completion of his...

I have just finished reading Forget me Knot by Mary Marks.  It is a wonderful mystery.  I love how quilting was interspersed with the murd...

I loved this book.  Ann Blockley explores experimental techniques and explains the texture of various flowers and vegetation.   The accomp...

I have just finished reading The Vicar's Wife by Katharine Swartz.  A new auhor to me so I wasn't sure what to expect.   I was com...

I have just read through James Ramsden's Do ahead Dinners.   This is the time of the year for comfort food and at a time when we are a...

I have just finished reading this most interesting book.   Quuilting with a Modern Slant by Rachel May.  It introduces 70 modern quilters....

We spent a lovely week in Alsace.  The wuilt show was lovely and we did a bit of sighseeing.  The weather was good which was a bonus. I bo...

This little book had some lovely recipes both traditional and Karen Solomon's own recipes.  I liked the fact that there were no porese...