Sewing squares

Tacked and sewn together

More boxes

Pieces cut ready for another boxes cushion

A lovely mix of new Indian cotton plains and  upcycled fabrics in spots and stripes



Glorious shopfront

This is a shop in Cardiff that has an amazing display of sewing machines

They look beautiful....

but I can't help feeling sad that no one is sewing with them

at least they are being admired

More boxes

Boxes blocks sewn together - front

Back with papers

The finished top with the papers removed, all ready for quilting

Boxes block

 Here is a new block I'm trying - its called Boxes

This is the first row of blocks

This is the second.....

And here's the third

Sashiko

At the weekend I visited the fabulous touring Japanese Sashiko exhibition which is currently on at Plymouth Art Gallery and Museum.There is a gallery of photos from the exhibition available from this link as no photos were allowed at the gallery. I was inspired to use a scrap of recycled fabric to try a bit of Sashiko inspired stitching which has become a pincushion