Welcome Home Pillow This pattern, Welcome Home Pillow by Lynette Anderson Designs was purchased several years ago from Cross Patch here in the UK. I've used a piece of background fabric from my "Lynette" box of fabrics for the stitchery. A piece of lightweight interfacing has been fused to the back, and the design traced using a lightbox and a Micron Pigma pen with a very fine nib - my favourite is size 005 in a pale brown colour. I'm using a selection of DMC straded embroidery threads, in colours that were suggest [...]
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Woodland Secrets - Quilted and Bound Another quilt top that has been waiting to be quilted since the summer of 2023, is this pretty design by the Australian designer Lynette Anderson. This was originally purchased as a kit back in 2018 from Cross Patch - the kit included the pattern, and fabrics from Lynette's Peacock Manor collection. The hearts, which have been hand embroidered using a selection of Valdani variegated starnded embroidery threads, and the hearts were then hand appliqued onto the background blocks. I decided to keep [...]
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Anna's Lille Veggteppe - Finally Quilted My project for the past week has been to machine quilt this top that I'd pieced together back in 2022. The pattern is Anna's Lille Veggteppe, by the Norwegian designer AnnAKa, and wa spurchased as a kit from Lappedilla in Norway, way back in 2011. It was already layered with wadding and backing fabric, and I picked out a few Aurifil 40wt threads for the machine quilting - shades 2610, 2312 and 6010...  [...]
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Zip it Up - Lil' Dinos I've had these cute fabrics, Lil' Dinos and Lil' Biasplaid - both by Michael Miller Fabrics - for simply ages, and they're absolutely perfect for a project I wanted to make for a very special little boy. The pattern is Zip it Up 2.0 by ByAnnie which was purchased from Oh Sew Sweet Shop here in the UK. I've used Soft and Stable wadding for the main body of the bag, and a lighterweight fusible wadding Vlieseline H630 for the pockets. I've quilted both the main body of the bag and the pockets very [...]
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Declutter Challenge 2025 - Day 16 Day 16 of the Declutter Challenge is all about focussing on our unfinished projects. I've got a few quilt tops that I've made but still need to be quilted. The thought of pulling them out and making a list felt quilt overwhelming, but that's just what I did. And yes, I still love them all so I definitely want to fnish them. Some have been layered ready for quilting, and some still need backing fabric to be bought and a quilting plan made, something that I seem t [...]
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