March 2026

March furtle is here - photo heavy as usual!

Chertsey Museum involved Dorset Buttons using curtain rings - compared to originals from the museum's vaults! 

I made Gingers for Mothering Sunday

And a #craftivism Gingers for Ovarian cancer

I finished and named 4 I-spy quilts (plus 3 more waiting for names)

Stitch donated 11 second hand sewing machines to Days For Girls 

plus 16 kits

Three of us spent an afternoon making aprons for a local church cafe 

A mini "Guess how much I love you" quilt to go with a copy of the book and a matching outfit

Then a fab weekend in Ireland with Jackie.  We made lovely quilted Liberty pouches . . .

And Liberty Twist pouches . . .

and tall liberty Japanese rice bags

I was spoilt by the Irish family for Mothering Sunday

Even had a yummy cake make for me by the oldest granddaughter

Great spending time with her and her brothers

And an awesome collection of Mothering Sunday goodies

Gorgeous grandson has learnt to hold things, the taggie is proving successful

but a drinking glass is fun too!

We had a really good turnout at Crafty Church

and again at Coffee Morning (with crafts and lego)

And finally welcome to the world little Miss Sophia.  Obviously she had to have a quilt to match her brother's!

February 2026

 Hello from February's Furtle!

Lets have a look at the February photos

Some fab peacock Easy Stack blocks from Chertsey

An I-spy under construction

An Auschwitz memorial Ginger

and a Mothering Sunday snowdrop Ginger

A cuddly bear in the garden

I used a few left over easy stack patches to make a useful basket 

I made Jack a mini quilt to go with a new book.  I may have spelt Jackesaurous wrong but as it's a made up word, and his spelling is currently worse than mine, this will do!

 

He seems to like the book!

Another national day ginger: National Hug Day

Grandson's age now being measured in months not weeks!  Where did that time go?

Step mom asked for a pickle ball ginger

A little friend came to play in the sewing room

Lisa and I went on a locked latch course

A few nearly ready quilts - you may count 6 quilts . . . the sheet of paper on top has 7 names on it!

Gingers celebrate national dog walking day 

and national chips day

Brian needed to do some work on the heating so my sewing room is even more untidy than usual! 😶

Niece Tara and I had a day at Hampton Court.  Do zoom in and see the amazing detail on this dress

and the beautiful fabric behind the beading

and then take time to appreciate that whilst the dress would have been made by hand several hundred years ago, we are looking at a painting of the original dress

OhMyGosh!!!

I also spotted a few ceilings that would make great EPP projects!

Finally we had Crafty Church yesterday and made a few winter hats for charity

and couldn't resist the temptation to photograph them in use!

Happy 1st March, see you next month x

January 2026

 I have had a furtle through the phone photos for January and thought these might be mildly interesting!

I made a-some vinyl pouches with the Chertsey ladies a few months ago (the blue ones) but didn't like that the studs were on the vinyl as that seems likely to break, so I adapted the design a bit and added another section of fabric: these (the yellow ones) now work much better

I finished this hug quilt (yes I have done the binding since the photo was taken)

One I-Spy for a new baby, just need to do a second one for baby's cousin (honestly some friends are very greedy about grandchildren LOL)

Travelling to see *my* grandson means at least 75 minutes in the car.  If Brian drives I like to have something to do - my collection of EPP balls is growing!

I have finally finished my 2022 Easy Stack quilt from a Paula Doyle class.  I have rather fallen out of love with it, hence the crazy long time it took to make

I don't usually add labels  but the fleece backing moved a bit and ended up a bit small so I had to Frankenjoin a bit and it all looked a terrible mess, so the label is a sticking plaster to hide the booboo

We had a lovely late Christmas family gathering at mum's

A few new Gingers made an appearance: this one for Pie Appreciation day

This one for the RSPB bird spotting weekend

And this one for the RNLI SOS day

Brian made this for Jack - his dad made one for Lisa 34 odd years ago 

I'm teaching Paula's easy Stack at Chertsey on Friday, so though I'd show them the original idea and how much more complicated a Stack and Whack block was - and forgot to make the white  tall enough - doh!

More furtling this time next month.  For now, pictures of gorgeous boy!