The Red Wren

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  Granny Squares

  A few weeks back I enthusiastically signed up for Pip of Meet me at Mike’s Granny a Day 2010. It’s taken me a little while to get started and there’s been a lot of pulling apart failed first attempts, but today it finally clicked and I made my first ever square! It’s wonky and my [...]

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  Forest Friends Quilt- Finished!

  I spent some of this afternoon sitting in a sunny spot in the lounge room finishing the last of this quilt;

  I really enjoyed working on this and it will be sad (in a good way) to see it head off to it’s new owner – a sweet little 18 month old by the name of [...]

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  Doily Garland

  Today we’re going to make a doily garland. It’s essentially a string of doily’s and paper circles sewn together.

  You need:
  1 packet of paper doilys. My garland used 32 (plus one extra for your circle template)
  Christmas themed paper
  circle template – cut the centre circle from your spare doily.
  scissors
  sewing machine, thread
  1. Using your circle template (the centre [...]