Scraps and Threadtales

You have to say for someone who is a fan of both baseball and Halloween this a good week. Change that to Red Sox and Halloween and it is a ...

It is amazing what sports fans will do to stay up with their teams. This morning my DH and I got up at 0600 to watch a taped copy of the Re...

I pulled out some of my half-finished bright strippy blocks last night. I thought it could be a quick finish...of course I had to complicat...

Yesterday I had to drive to Fairford to pick up DH's prescriptions so I treated myself to a side trip to Firkin Woolen Mills. Their fab...

The title of this post sounds more like a Sherlock Holmes story...and in a way it is becoming one! A few weeks ago I brought an American w...

Yesterday was the "big auction day" down in Cirencester with the Flog It" TV team. It was much more stressful than I expecte...

The fog is so dense this morning I could barely see MacBeth at the end of the leash! A good day to stay in and finish a quilt or make anoth...

The past few weeks have flown by! Dh has been sick which makes everything more complicated...he is doing better and went to work today so I ...

I spent the last three days in a miniature class with the folks from Gandads Playroom. They are retiring this year so this was their last cl...

My Dh is coming home on Monday so today was final quilting day is today...tomorrow I clean! I put the final border on my Rose Sampler quilt...

Well MacBeth (my scottish terrier) really did it this time. Last night Brownie (my small brown cat) escaped from the house and a few moment...

I am one of those people who never win anything. I can't even begin to count how many quilt raffle tickets I have purchased in my life a...

Today I went to an Anglo American picnic. The group gets together every 3 months or so. As part of the entertainment they held a chili cooko...

Some days no matter how well you plan you feel like just nothing is going to work out...this is one of those days. Right now I should be qui...

The sun was shining so I decided it was too nice to stay inside...even to quilt. So I drove over the boot sale they hold every Sunday at the...

Today I decided to take a day off of everything and just play in fabric. I finished two blocks for a group baby quilt, finished piecing a ba...

Now that I am feeling a bit better I am trying to get back to my resolution of going to at least one new place or doing one new thing every ...

Here in the UK the BBC runs a show where folks bring in things to be appraised (like the antique roadshow) then they bring the item to aucti...

Well I am back. Sorry about the long delay. The short version - the infection got worse, I spent some time in the hospital, my eyes got a bi...

I haven't been sewing very much this week but more on that later. Right now I am trying to make up my mind on a small Halloween table ru...