Grit

Grit

A Grit mini quilt. Grit: perseverance and resilience. Grit: Courage and resolve; strength of character. However you define it, I think we all agree that a bit of grit is a good thing. A lot of grit, even better. This topic comes up often in our home of late as we negotiate mathematics, French, musical …

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Red Letter Day. Except in Blue.

Hello all! Just thought I’d squeeze in a little post before the weekend. If you’ve been following me on Instagram (it took a while, but I’ve finally found my way over there) then you’d have seen this already: This is the Red Letter Day quilt I started at Camille’s class last month. As it’s for …

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How to sew with minky or minkee (but not minke)

So you want to sew a minky blanket? You’re in luck – I’m back, fresh from wranglin’ the minky. Jokes, jokes. I mean this stuff (the brown dotted one): Minky is a synthetic fabric that is super soft, snuggly and damn slippery. You can find a fine selection of it here on Amazon* or over …

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