Around the World Blog Hop - This stop: Yorkshire

Firstly I'd like to thank Plum from Plum Quilts for nominating me 

(even though I don't normally do these things...)

and I'd like to apologise to Ailsa from Cape Pincushion 

for not reading my emails in time when you nominated me!

I have been a bit bad with emails and comments of late,

I do apologise. I could blame my 3 crazy kids, 

but they may read this someday ;o)

So here we go....

1. What am I working on at the moment?

A bit of this, a bit of that...

Mostly, I work on this:

But currently, I am getting the binding on this quilt...

And trying to make some sense 

of my Mother's oldest and most gigantc UFO.

I have hand sewn all the star parts together...

Now I need to remove the papers

and figure out how to square it up for quilting on my longarm....

(any suggestions gratefully received)

(it's a very 'Vintage' colour scheme -

not my taste at all, but I do love it because Mom made it

- or started it at least!)

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I have sewn the borders on my African quilt

and that is waiting to get loaded on the longarm.

I just need to piece a backing 

with the leftover blocks.

This is an old photo

(the borders ARE on! I promise)

I have various UFO's which I dabble with,

far too many to list LOL,

but hopefully I'll be finishing them off 

and putting them on my blog

in months and years to come!!

SOME, not all, are listed in my sidebar.

Here are 2:

'Carolina Lily'

And  'Criss Cross Apple Sauce' blocks

I have a lot more than this!!

2. How does your work differ from other of its genre?

I'm not sure. I seem to do a bit of everything 

so I guess I must overlap with many others of my 'genre'.

I just love quilting, the scrappier the better!

Although I do love my roses!!!

(Rose Hexagon Quilt Mummy)

3.Why do I create what I do?

I love sewing. Madly, passionately... 

I find it relieves stress and I like to sew pretty much every day.

Even if it's just something very small.

Or even something not quilty,

like clothes, bags, home furnishings etc...

4. How does my creative process work?

Chaotic-ly!! 

I see something, want to try it... do a bit, see something else...

finish something, start another 2 things..., 

cut out something else, get distracted...

etc etc etc!!!

But I do finish loads of stuff

so my guilt levels are not dangerously high :o)

One of my favourite finishes:

This quilt is often on our bed.

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Now I had to tag people.

I chose Scraps and Threadtales

because Sio constantly inspires me to try something

and she is so knowledgable about our patchwork and quilting.

She has answered many of my quilt questions over the years

and really helped me especially with this quilt:

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I also chose Birgit of Patchcom

because I have known Birgit for such a long time.

We met at a quilt group when I lived in Germany 

and she taught me how to paper-piece 

(- for that I am eternally grateful!)

(Paper pieced rose in my Rose Hexagon Quilt)

Birgit is a bit snowed under at the moment,

but I just wanted to take this opportunity to mention

what an important quilt friend Birgit is to me.

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And Kate of Katesquilting was tagged the same day as me,

 We then tried to tag each other,

but as this has already cut into my sewing time,

I am going to tag her anyway and be done - sorry!

Kate and I met as blog friends

and now we are real friends too, 

having families that holiday together well is great.

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Anyway, keep sewing everyone, 

it's cheaper than therapy!