Quilt and Sewing patterns in December

Quilt Now issue 57 is out now and it contains two of my patterns. Photo credit: Quilt Now The first is for a set of storage canisters to sit, say, on a sewing table. They could hold ribbons, buttons or reels of thread. I designed them so they would nest inside each other, so they couldContinueContinue reading “Quilt and Sewing patterns in December”

A quilt from table-cloths

Many moons ago, when I began to write this blog, I created a post called ‘Embroidered Vintage table-cloths, what’s not to like?’ (you can see it here). The photo showed a beautiful cloth which I inherited and tried to use, decoratively, in our house. It had the most beautiful collection of hand-embroidered flowers all differentContinueContinue reading “A quilt from table-cloths”