I was given these fabric panels with springtime images on them and also some Easter ribbon. I prefer to use found and given materials and now that we know that sustainability is essential I’m even more keen to use supplies which have been passed on to me or discarded. There…
I made these teabag pouches using the pattern from Ayumi Mills book Patchwork, Please! I used scraps of fabric from saris and cholis that my best friend gave me. I made them to give my Mum so that she could give them to her friends for gifts. All filled up…
In all the projects I made this year I was interested in using materials that I already had. In this piece of work I used a bag of offcuts of fabric which had Bondaweb on the back of them left over from creating lettering for banners which I have previously…
I am proudly Sussex (actually my heritage is Anglo-Indian so I am also proudly Secunderabad). This year I had every intention of celebrating Sussex Day but I have missed it, it was on 16th June! Oh well, next year I suppose. The event takes place on St Richard's Day, the…
I wanted to make an heirloom Christmas quilt, a cover my husband and I could put on our bed every festive season. I chose the pattern Winterkist Snowballs Quilt by Lynne Goldsworthy which I found in an issue of Fat Quarterly e-zine. I looked for a design with large uninterrupted…
There is something nostalgic about American diner pies, even though I grew up in East Sussex. I think it comes from the films I watched when I was growing up. I remember when a broke Kenickie asks Rizzo if she's got a couple of quarters so that they can split…
Melanie Makes Meringues