Scraps and Threadtales

I am a big one for making lists - grocery lists, to do lists, lists of quilts I've made and of quilts I would like to make. So that I a...

Well I am back from the states and slowly recovering from the holidays. Didn't realize how tired I was until I woke up in my own bed wi...

I love the holidays but I do tend to over-do it. The past week I have been cooking, cleaning, traveling, and attending holiday events like ...

Well after several days of intermittent power outages it seems as if we are all fixed now...I'll know better after a good rain! I'v...

Sorry I have been off-line for a bit. We are having electrical/water problems at our house right now and my DH was adamant about not pluggi...

I was looking through my quilt room last night trying to figure out what to put together for my 200th posting "prize." (don't...

It is a statement on a vacation when you are as happy as I am this morning to be home again! My DH and I took a cruise around the med this ...

This morning it was cold and foggy...tonight it is cold and foggy but I digress. My DH and I got up early to hit the weekly boot sale in ho...

As expected I still have a lot of Halloween candy left over. I am amazed how polite the children were last night. I told one group they co...

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...