Was that a dinosaur? 2.0

Tag: sewing

  • My New Years Rissolution* part 2

    *Rabbit made a rissolution at the end of The House At Pooh Corner. https://wasthatadinosaurcouk.uk/2025/12/31/my-new-years-rissolution-part-1/ At the end of part 1 I mentioned I had a couple of hand sewing projects I wanted to work on. The first is a continuation of a project I started 2 years ago where each set of hexagons is made…

  • My New Year’s Rissolution* part 1

    *Rabbit called a rissolution in the last chapter of The House At Pooh Corner I found 2025 very difficult. A fall in February prevented me from getting on with my projects until April… then “sleeping sickness” which turned out to be low folic acid put paid to my creativity from the end of October onwards.…

  • Part the 3rd

    Part 1 is here https://wasthatadinosaurcouk.uk/2025/07/22/oops-i-did-it-again/ Part 2 is here https://wasthatadinosaurcouk.uk/2025/07/24/creativity-incoming/ So what is the progress? Firstly I spent time sewing triangles onto the hexagons to turn them into diamonds and pressed them. Then it was time to sew and press the rows. The pressing of the rows becomes quite meditative as I use the iron,…

  • Creativity incoming

    In my last post I wrote about starting my latest project… here’s the link if you need it… https://wasthatadinosaurcouk.uk/2025/07/22/oops-i-did-it-again/ So how am I doing. Well here’s my basket of “waste” which will be processed and used in future scrap projects. Now to how I’m progressing on my current project. To begin with I grouped all…

  • Oops I did it again

    “What happened to the projects I was quilting?” I hear you ask… I am currently unpicking the quilting in the tumblers quilt as messed up a bit in the preparation (more haste, less speed is sage advice still)… And my monkey wrench quilts are stalled currently too while I work out techniques to quilt them…

  • Bobbin Chicken

    I happened to use a partly used bobbin on my spool pin (top thread) with about an equal amount of thread on it as the bobbin I was using in my bobbin compartment (bottom thread). Both threads ran out at the same time. I made the collage below and had Be My AI describe it…

  • Maybe gone but not forgotten

    I was all set to start quilting my next project (the 3 quilts I briefly mentioned last time) https://wasthatadinosaurcouk.uk/2025/04/17/how-can-it-already-be-mid-april/ What stopped me? I got distracted by finding the first quilt top I made after being “certified” blind in October 2017. https://wasthatadinosaur.wordpress.com/2019/11/01/finally-registered/ The paperwork was filled out at the hospital and that paperwork went to the…

  • How can it already be mid April?

    I feel like this year has been tediously slow and lightning fast both at the same time this year. I finished the apple core quilt a week and a half ago when I made a label and bound the raw edges it took me 4 weeks from cutting the apple cores to gifting it to…

  • A Quilter’s Parable

    Sometimes we can obsess with perfection. The top shape in this drawer is an apple core it has 2 concave, and 2 convex sides. When these patches are sewn into pairs a convex curve is sewn into a concave side. *we can ignore the clamshells at the bottom they just happen to share the drawer.…

  • February round up

    5 days after my last blogpost I had a bad fall badly bruising my ribs. My sewing was on hold all month. Just over a week later my daughter and grandson arrived for their visit. 5.5 weeks later I’m still not totally recovered, heavy lifting still causes twinges so to be safe I won’t be…