Dorothy's threads of life

I've had another busy weekend this time at a 2day workshop with Marg Sampson George. This is the time to raid the stash and find all th...

Back home again after a wonderful weekend filled with quilts, fun and friends. The first photo is lunch at Kyneton on our way to Maldon whe...

I've been waiting for the cotton chintz to arrive at Somerset  and it did when I was there on Friday. I am making Karen's quilt whic...

First item to be finished was the 4th centre block for my Coxcombs and Stars and now I'm working on the bottom and last border. This is ...

I managed to get another of Lori's blocks finished. I like to make the HST's by sewing two squares diagonally together on either sid...

I'm saying Hurray because I've been without my computer for 10days. Today it came home with quite a bit of work done to it. Everythi...

With the weather being so hot yesterday, I decided to wash a couple of my quilts. I never treat them as if they are 'precious',  I  ...

Today , the 26th January is Australia Day. It's about celebrating the fact that we live in the 'lucky country'. I came to Austr...

We are all breathing a sigh of relief now that the weather has changed from unbelievably hot to our much cooler but more normal summer weat...

Feeling better and back to normal which includes sewing again. Summer has arrived at last with a couple of lovely warm days which is now goi...

Happy New Year Wishing everyone all the best for 2014. I haven't been too well over Christmas so there has been no blog and no sewing...

Each year I take part in a Christmas Swap with a Prim Yahoo group. This week I received my parcel from Imi in Holland. It contained a Mug Ma...

This is the 2nd block for Lori's   Humble Quilts   quilt. There is always a lot of fabric cutting  to be done with each block, so I s...

While I was in the cupboard looking for my halogen table lamp I found this container/bucket and instantly knew what was inside it. It must ...

All the applique for the corners and surrounds is finished and I'm really pleased how it looks. Once it is quilted I'm going to bind...