Dear Daughter I’ve chosen to make the Buzzard’s Roost block from the Farmer’s Wife Quilt book and tech usage for your letter, this time. For some reason, this quilt block wasn’t on my original list of blocks to-do. It jumped out at me, while I was flicking through the book, […]
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Dear Daughter: About being tidy
Dear Daughter It has been a while. I have written a few letters in the meantime, but somehow, they’ve not made it to my blog. These may make it into an appendix one day. Or maybe even an e-book containing the missing blocks. The good news is that, not only […]
Read moreDear Daughter: About not giving up
(only half the paper templates removed. Causing some wrinkles!) Dear Daughter I have created another patchwork block for your Dear Daughter Quilt. Something very satisfying about adding it to my pile of completed pieces. All waiting to be sewn together. I very nearly abandoned this project. It would’ve been easy […]
Read moreDear Daughter: About Being You
Dear Daughter It has been a while since I wrote a letter and created a patchwork square for my Dear Daughter quilt. I have not forgotten, or run out of things to say. No, the problem has been the patchwork squares. I just wasn’t totally happy with the ones that […]
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