The Fruit Cake Recipe

In case you are wondering what on earth a fruit cake recipe has to do with a textiles blog, let me hasten to explain! In the collection of tea-towel design on Spoonflower, in the Amanda Jane Textiles studio (here), there are four based on recipes from my grandmother’s 1930s-1940s recipe book. All the recipes areContinueContinue reading “The Fruit Cake Recipe”

Snowball Blocks for Babies

There are lots of pretty snowball blocks on the design wall in my studio at the moment. Every single one of them is going to used in a small quilt for a baby in a hospital Special Care unit. Each baby quilt will measure 18″ by 24″ when it is finished. The snowball blocks willContinueContinue reading “Snowball Blocks for Babies”