Last Sunday’s patchwork course highlighted that my cutting and measuring skills need practise. Without cutting precisely, the kind of patchwork projects that I’d like to tackle, are going to look bad. My mistakes would shout out everytime I looked at the finished project. With this in mind, I spent time, […]
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Patchworking for children
I am always thrilled when one of my children shows interest in my hobbies. When two children are enthusiastic, even better and I need to act. AJ and BL have been pouring over my patchwork and quilting books. They have enjoyed the patchwork projects that we have done together. It […]
Read moreWelsh books for my bookworms
(llyfrbryfed – welsh for bookworms) It is always fascinating to hear the parts of a book, that my children choose to share with me. They may not tell me the whole story, but they read out the sentences that ring true to them. The bits of text that shout out, […]
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I can’t help thinking that some of the birds, that we saw at Slimbridge today, were designed with the inspiration of art in mind. The urge to pick up a pencil or paintbrush, was very tempting. Oh, those feathers and colours. Today was bitterly cold, but dry, so we wrapped […]
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