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Focus cutting sewalong 2026 month 1 round-up

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 Hello everybody! Well it's been a while since I wrote anything here. Moving house completely took over my life last year. However, we are now all moved and starting to settle into our beautiful new home near Oxford. So now that I have moved and unpacked my main fabric stash, I have joined back in with the #focuscuttingsewalong, hosted as ever by the lovely Naomi Clarke-Mordy . This year the shape is the square, and we are putting four small squares together to make one big square. I'm using 1.5 inch squares, because I have all the papers left over from making my Focussed Rainbow quilt in 2024 . There's also a colour theme for the year - Naomi has divided the year into 13 lunar months with a different colour for each month. And we have now finished the first month, where the theme was White/Cream. So here are my White/Cream focus cut blocks! I made 10 in total. Week 1: Identifiable motifs. I made 3 blocks in total. At this point in the process I hadn't unpacked most my ...

The 4th Genevieve Awards: Festival of Quilts 2024

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 Hello everybody! There has been another Festival of Quilts! And I exhibited again - with one solo quilt, and one block in a group quilt. I was only able to go for one day this year, but in that day I managed to pack in watching the 'Wearable Quilt Creations' catwalk, and an embroidery workshop, as well as getting around all the quilts and some of the vendors.  Again, I managed to max out the storage on my phone and its SD card with photographs as there were just so many beautiful quilts to see. Me in front of my quilt 'Focussed Rainbow' Me pointing to my block in #teambearpaw24 2 - conceived and pieced by Chris English So to the awards!  The Genevieve Awards are awards I give to the quilts on display at the Festival of Quilts. The only prize for them is the knowledge that I like your quilt. I make up the categories, I decide which quilts go in to the categories, I decide who wins. These are now the fourth Awards (you can also read the ones for 2023 , 2022 and 2019 ) an...