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How to Pin a Quilt with a Grapefruit Spoon

I am fortunate enough to be a member of a quilt group that has a well-established system of arranging to go away together to quilt. These quilting breaks are taken by almost all the members of the group who stay for either a week-end or a whole week and they take place not once, butContinueContinue reading “How to Pin a Quilt with a Grapefruit Spoon”

London treats and tailors’ thimbles

Although I was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the North-East of England, I grew up in a village in the Buckinghamshire countryside. A forty-minute train journey from the nearby town was enough to take you to London for a ‘day out’. So a day in the capital equals a special treat for me – and nowContinueContinue reading “London treats and tailors’ thimbles”