Pour Maman

Mother’s Day in France is tomorrow. I had planned to make her a Madli stole, in her favourite light pink, but I simply ran out of time (and the idea of winding 900m of laceweight yarn by hand held me back, too – I should get myself a swift and a ball winder). I thought [...]

Stars and hexagons

A while ago, I started my first quilt made of lovely black and white stars in hexagons. I had to put it on the back burner for a little while as I needed to work on some more urgent stuff. But this week, as I had finished my layered quilt top, I picked it up [...]

My first finished quilt top

As you know if you’ve been reading my blog, I have just started quilting, after many years of being tempted by this craft. I finally took the plunge a month or so ago. I had started a hexagon quilt, but it’s not the one I want to talk about today (note the “today”, because I’ll [...]

Halfway point

And a little bit more! I’m making good progress on my quilt top for the QAL over on Ravelry with the UK Quilters. I’m doing almost a block per day at the moment, so it’s quite good. I also do some stupid mistakes like sewing the wrong sides of the strips together… I let one [...]

Progressing

I didn’t mean to neglect my blog, but I have been so busy doing multiple things that I didn’t take the time to stop and write about it! Also, Lucas is turning 5 months today and in the last couple of weeks, he’s been interested in about everything that surrounds him. I am loving it. [...]