I always thought itd be cool to be a gang member, but without the whole violent shizzle and the street corner drug selling. I think I probably watched too many episodes of the wire. And fell a little...
Things are busy here in Monkey Towers. Its only a skip and a jump away until the Fat Quarterly retreat, 4 more sleeps in fact. Although I am heading down on Thursday for no real reason other than I l...
I guess I started my Quilt Market recaps already, with my (somewhat excited) post on the new Liberty Lifestyle fabrics. Heck - am I glad youre as excited as me.Rather than starting with booths Im goi...
Spring Market in Kansas City was fantastic, and as soon as I get my hundreds of photos sorted Ill start sharing with you the exciting things that are coming in the world of fabric.The one thing I rea...
A (not so) little bit of a peek of the quilt I made for the retreat special of Fat Quarterly which is coming soon (although I should know this I am really not sure when it is - what with market and t...
Annie has decided that everyone should win something in the Flock giveaway....so for the next week (Until Monday May 21st) there is 10% off all flock in the Village Haberdashery store using the code ...
I am so excited to have this quilt finished. Id planned on taking a little trip out to find some fun animals, we have highland cattle in the farm up the road from us and they have babies at the minut...
You already know how much I love Brenda over at Pink Castle fabrics, dont you? Well, this week was the grand opening of her dot com site and shes been having a different sale each day using a coupon ...
The Fat Quarterly retreat countdown has begun....ticket sales will close in 12 days, so if you were thinking about it and havent yet bought a ticket hurry hurry. We dont have many left either, so you...
I was telling you just the other day about Annie and her lovely shop, The Village Haberdashery, and as concrete proof of her generosity and loveliness Annie has asked if Id like to host a giveaway of...
I spent Saturday at Patch Fabrics in Lowestoft with 5 lovely ladies teaching Camilles Swoon quilt pattern.Jennys block was a lovely selection of Autumnal shades. She wasnt entirely happy with her poi...
Aylin made this pillow last week, for Tacha. To say I am jealous is an understatement, I am sick to my back teeth with envy. But it did make me think, I should make myself one like hers using texty p...
I have some friends (yes, dont look too surprised) and together we form a little collective known (to ourselves) as the kitchen quilt guild. We meet up once a month or so at Lynnes house, in her kitc...
Things are crazy busy around here at the minute. Its less than 2 weeks until I fly to Spring market, and I have 2 quilts to finish.If you follow me on twitter (Im @ImAGingerMonkey) you will probably ...
I met Annie last year at Fall Quilt Market. Id known her for a little while before from blogland and she always seemed such a lovely person. When she said she was starting her own UK based online sto...
GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED!Last week I showed you this quilt that is in the current issue of Fat Quarterly (Issue 9, Kids). Ginger (hes 6) and I made it together as a gift for his teacher. I also mentioned ...
Thank you to everyone that entered the zakka style sew along giveaway, I really hope Ive inspired you to go and buy the book, because it is such a useful little book to have.We have 3 winners. Number...
So, after my somewhat disastrous attempts at making a block for Janes Desperate Housewives Quilt we shall try again, still using thangles and half square triangles (HSTs) because they are both so fli...
Jane asked me to contribute to her desperate housewives quilt blocks feature, which I excitedly set about doing before reading any instructions or paying any attention to to what size the block shoul...
Issue 9 of Fat Quarterly is coming this week. Subscribers should expect access to their copies in their in-box today and single issues will be available to purchase later this week.The theme for this...
A package literally just arrived with my lovely new mail lady, who was trying to have a conversation with me about tattoos as I was trying to push her out the door because I knew what the package con...
Lynne and I have picked our winners (pop over to Lynnes to find out if you won there!) and my Mr Random.Org chose lucky number 9 - Linda.Ill be contacting you later today Linda and will get your bund...
Before I start to talk about my project for the Zakka Style sew-along I just wanted to tell you a little bit about the book. When I first saw Rashidas book I thought that looks nice but left it at th...
As you are fully aware by now I am a little bit obsessed with modern extra wide quilt backing fabrics and my mission is to get a greater variety of choice and design from the manufacturers.I spoke ab...
Is number 44...Elsy.Elsy - Ive emailed you (ok, Im just about to) so let me know youre address and Ill get your package out to you!Yay!Congrats!
The official release date wasnt until May 1st, but our book is shipping early - so if you have pre-ordered you should be expecting your copy any day now.Amazon.com has the book in stock, whereas the ...
In exactly one month today Ill be in Kansas City MO, for International Spring Quilt Market.That is I will be if my passport comes in time.I finished the quilting on this little quilt yesterday, and n...
Thomas Knauer is still new to the world of quilting, and fabric in general, but this is his 3rd line for Andover Fabrics in less than a year (coming some time soon - its expected this Spring, so I wo...
I admit - I am not a naturally competitive person, I was never sporty at school, Ive never been the best at anything in particular, I didnt like the attention winning got you - Id rather be somewhere...
Thanks for stopping by on the Festival of Half Square Triangles blog tour!Do you want to make a pillow like this one? Its a biggie - it ends up at 24"square, so its perfect for a big snuggly bed ...
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