Using Secondhand Fabric

I have now finished ‘secondhand September’ (more about this in the post here) and have completed my personal challenge to wear thrifted and secondhand clothes every day that month. I’m making a distinction between ‘secondhand’ and ‘thrifted’ because of the various companies who chose to donate surplus garments to charity shops rather than discard them.ContinueContinue reading “Using Secondhand Fabric”

No-waste quilting: using fabric and wadding scraps

Late summer is a good time to do some sorting and tidying in the studio. Ready for a fresh start in September, perhaps, since that always feels like the start of the year to me. I went through every box of fabric (my fabrics are sorted by colour and the pieces are usually a fatContinueContinue reading “No-waste quilting: using fabric and wadding scraps”