Patches of Destruxion

 Hello Everybody! I have actually finished a quilt top! It's my Fussy Cutting Forest quilt, made from the blocks created during the 2018 #fussycuttingsewalong hosted by the lovely Naomi Clarke on Instagram.  You can read more about this and see it all coming together in my previous blog posts ( November roundup , Fussy cutting forest begins , December roundup , Works in progress , Making mistakes , More works in progress , Oops  OK, there were more of those than I was expecting). Here it is! I did actually manage to find a space on my kitchen floor big enough to put it down. I am quite happy for my solution for finishing off the corners - I am going to cut the edges of this to turn it into a neat rectangle when it's been quilted, so I needed enough extra at the sides and corners to be able to do this. The making of this top really has been a learning process, I definitely learned a lot about fussy cutting by doing the different challenges every week.  There is a marked differe

Hello everybody! Yesterday we got the news that the woman who taught Sing and Sign classes to my three little ones is having to close down her franchise due to the pandemic making the business no longer financially viable. I am very sad about this, Helen is an amazing teacher, so full of enthusiasm and love. All 3 of my kids loved her classes and they have had a lasting impact on them They still watch the DVDs. My eldest made friends at school with a Hearing Impaired kid partly because he already loved signing and found it easy to learn more signs to communicate with his new friend. And I met so many lovely other Mums at the classes - they really helped me keep what little remained of my sanity during my maternity leaves. So I thought today would be a good day to tell the story of a cushion I made for Helen.  I made it to give to her in 2016, when I was going back to work and assuming I wouldn't be coming back to her classes (I was wrong, my daughter appeared in November 2017, so I