Scraps and Threadtales

I took a break this morning to do some crafts with the local kids. It will most likely be my last time since next week we will be shipping ...

I had so many plans to work in the house today to get ready for visitors and for the move but there is sun! Real sun with real blue skies! ...

I've been packing up some of my vintage quilts and came across a truely vintage fungly! Perhaps we are on the verge of a fungly revival...

Tonya at Lazy Gal Quilting and Bonnie at Quiltville are challenging folks to try Fungly quilts...basically using simple blocks with ugly/old...

I know it has been a while since I posted. I'd go through the long explanation of my eyes going wonky, not being able to use the comput...

OK so I am a bit early...that alone should surprise anyone who knows me! We had our ex-pat independence day cookout yesterday. It was typi...

Have you ever heard the comedians who can run through an entire Shakespeare play in about 2 minutes? That is what the past couple of weeks ...

We got home late yesterday afternoon from our vacation/holiday to Scotland. It is a beautiful country and the people we met were all very n...

I have had more visitors which throws my blogging time way off! That and finally having some sunny weather has made my eyes wonky too. If ...

Yesterday I made the most of being in the Cotswolds. First I went on a long hill walk with McBeth and my DH. The weather was wonderful. T...

Now my posts are a bit wonky in order...I know the show was a few weeks ago and I have posted since then but I've had visitors and my li...

I've been off the grid for a bit. The day after Tonya left my sister and her husband arrived from the states. I like having visitors s...

With Tonya on her way back to Paris the house is very quiet again. Brownie has slept all afternoon...guess all the attention wore the littl...

Tonya and I made it to the Malverns Quilt Show and back to Teddington in one piece. Our plans to not buy any fabric were busted 10 steps in...

I have been bad about posting, cleaning house, quilting or just about any responsible thing the past few days....blame it on the weather. W...