I had a lovely day doing a patchwork workshop at Quiltessential today with my friend, Rachel. It is the first time that I have left Mabel for any length of time, but it worked well, which paves the way for me doing it again. (Phew!)

I have done patchwork before, but it was a long old time ago. We had a great day and produced a cushion cover.

How to do the binding on a quilt has puzzled me for ages now. Now that I know how to do it, it is so obvious!

Next step, is to add some quilting to my patchwork skills and then I can crack on with all the ideas I have had buzzing round my head and in my sketchbook for months. Watch this space.

Mabel does a bit of modelling…