For people who like to make things, sometimes you wind up with… well, a lot of stuff. (Exhibit A: my husband’s growing collection of 3D printed tat) But what could you do if you want to keep making things? What if you want to practice a new skill, like quilt piecing, quilting, and binding in […]
Once I had finished my last quilt, my husband then asked me to make him one too… but with Star Wars fabric. As Joann Fabrics is now very much departed, I hit up my local Michael’s for all the Star Wars fabric they had in stock, which was actually quite a lot. Most of the […]
In the next step along my journey of preparing myself for the complicated quilt pattern, I decided to make the Ultimate Beginner Quilt pattern from Fat Quarter Shop. It uses fat quarters, it has written instructions and videos, it shows you a few different styles of quilt blocks…. I thought it would be good practice. […]
You know how it goes, you see a project that looks appealing and buy the kit and then realize you have probably bitten off more than you could chew for your first big quilting project and so you have to take a step back to something smaller/easier! This is the free Patchwork Squares pattern from […]
Happy New Year! One of my Son’s current obsessions is for Alphabet Lore, and more specifically letter E, so he has been asking me repeatedly for an Uppercase E, like his name. The internet wouldn’t provide me with this at the moment it seems, so Mama’s got to figure it out herself. I took this […]
Yep, it has been over 4 years since my last post. I guess I haven’t been making anything that exciting? Either that or just busy busy busy? I digress. Lately I have been trying to practice my sewing skills when it comes to quilting, seams must be straight, pieces must be cut accurately……. Rather than […]
I have been on a little scone kick lately. I think because I managed to buy some clotted cream at Whole Foods so therefore had to make scones! I started off with some regular fruit scones, they were ok. Next came some Marmite and Cheese Scones (Hairy Bikers recipe via BBC Good Food Magazine), they […]
These days any sort of baking, making, and indeed crafting, takes place around children napping, in between wrangling children, or while they are distracted by Disney+ (best lockdown purchase, you the MVP!) But sometimes the baking takes place with children involved! And this is one of those ones. My daughter loves sprinkles, and chocolate, and […]
Ok, so it seems like my posts are once a year right now. I guess I just haven’t been making anything particularly exciting these days, partially due to a lack of time, and part due to my ongoing wrist problems – Bah! Anyway, I thought I would share this wonderfully easy and tasty cake recipe, […]
(I am just going to gloss over the long blogging absence, I have been making things, but they haven’t been exciting things and I had kind of lost my mojo) We all know I like to make things, but I don’t class myself as being particularly artistically skilled, and was way out of practice at […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 