Helen phillips

I have been inspired by the colour blue this week............loving all the bluebells popping up in our garden and in the fields and woo...

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Over the past week it seems i have mostly either been quilting, piecing patchwork together by hand or by machine...or taking pictures of quilts............i'm having quite a quilty crush right now.....this is the little strip pieced scrappy quilt i began in the winter........ ................the top was finished very quickly and then i took my time hand quilting it in the evenings......watching various tv programmes and movies...........then when the quilting was complete i took a while to…

Hello dear readers.....lots of brocante bits and bobs to share today....last weekend my daughter sarah and i went to the little brocante at gladstone hall, burton in wirral......it was a lovely day, sunny but not too hot (at first)...... ....some of the treasures i found are shown here.....a dundee marmalade jar, french mustard pot, cotton reels, vintage wooden pegs and little green glass bottles with labels...... .....shown here with sweet peas and my vintage charm quilt..... ........i…

Hello again lovely readers......we have lots of pictures of my new pink hearts quilt this week...... ............this is made from my heartstrings quilt pattern (in my etsy shop link in bio)..... ...........i finished hand quilting this last week but was busy with other work and a lovely half term outing with my younger daughter and her family so it wasn't till the weekend that i made the binding..... ...........i took these pictures on my worktable on a cosy sunday .....with coffee and…

I have a new quilt to show you today...............this is the chrysanthemum quilt and i actually finished it a while ago.......... ..................now that it is published in the july issue of the gorgeous pretty patches magazine i can reveal it here.......... ..................it was a very enjoyable quilt to make, beginning with english paper piecing the flower.....i chose lots of pink and red fabrics for this and mixed them with white and grey ones...........each flower centre was the…

Hello again dear readers............hope you are keeping well and safe....here are some cheerful pictures from my week.....beginning with my work table covered with spring things....tiny bunnies, flowers, sewing things, mini eggs and some tiny toys from my husband's childhood that i found in a box in the attic....i selected the tiny hens and sheep for this time of year...... .............the farmyard animals were always some of my own favourite toys too.....the tiny gambolling lamb on the…

The end of December and the end of another year.........we feel grateful that our christmas has been cosy, happy and peaceful.... .........we had a lovely christmas day at our elder daughter's beautiful home, with happy cosy family times...... .......and on other cosy winter evenings i've been quilting my baskets quilt by hand...... ........the perfect fireside winter project......... .......my little houses pincushion matches this project well....... ..........i'm loving these cosy winter…