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Finish Along Quarter 2 Tutorial Week – Butterfly Spools Blocks With Mrs Flying Blind On A Rocket Cycle

Finish Along Quarter 2 Tutorial Week – Butterfly Spools Blocks With Mrs Flying Blind On A Rocket Cycle

by Katy Cameron | 03.07.2014 | Finish Along 2014, Finish Along Tutorials

Today I’m welcoming fabulous fellow Brit-Bee-er Hadley, AKA Flying Blind On A Rocket Cycle, who is going to show you all about how to make some lovely butterflies.  Now if you can all distract her, I’m popping down to clear all that clutter in the photo...
Finish Along Quarter 2 Tutorial Week – Dynamic Magnetic Improv Quilt With Blue Mountain Daisy

Finish Along Quarter 2 Tutorial Week – Dynamic Magnetic Improv Quilt With Blue Mountain Daisy

by Katy Cameron | 02.07.2014 | Finish Along 2014, Finish Along Tutorials

I have to admit that Rachael’s is one of my favourite blogs to read.  So many colours and shapes and weird and wonderful ideas, I think I want to be Rachael when I grow up!  Anyway, when she offered to do a tute on her super cute magnetic improv quilt, which she...
Finish Along Quarter 2 Tutorial Week – Stitched Fabric Cards With Celtic Thistle Stitches

Finish Along Quarter 2 Tutorial Week – Stitched Fabric Cards With Celtic Thistle Stitches

by Katy Cameron | 01.07.2014 | Finish Along 2014, Finish Along Tutorials

I can’t quite remember when I first met Fiona, but, you know, us Thistles need to stick together, so I have been reading her blog ever since.  She has just returned from what looks like an amazing trip along the Silk Route, you should really go and check out the...
Finish Along Quarter 1 Tutorial Week – How To Write A Tutorial By Shay From Quilting In My Pyjamas

Finish Along Quarter 1 Tutorial Week – How To Write A Tutorial By Shay From Quilting In My Pyjamas

by Katy Cameron | 05.04.2014 | Finish Along 2014, Finish Along Tutorials

When I put out the call for contributors to Q1’s tutorials week, Shay inadvertently volunteered herself for this tute.  I think she was trying to be funny, but that’ll teach her ;o)  It took a few e-mails before she realised I was serious too, and that I...
Finish Along Quarter 1 Tutorial Week – Plastic Bag Tidy With Kirsten Of Gemini Stitches

Finish Along Quarter 1 Tutorial Week – Plastic Bag Tidy With Kirsten Of Gemini Stitches

by Katy Cameron | 04.04.2014 | Finish Along 2014, Finish Along Tutorials

My friend Kirsten of Gemini Stitches is here today for the fourth tutorial installment for the Finish Along.  I suspect Kirsten has looked in my hall cupboard and seen the guddle of plastic bags in there, because this is the perfect project to sort them out.  Off to...
Finish Along Quarter 1 Tutorial Week – Quilter’s Kanban – When Life Meets Logistics, With Elita

Finish Along Quarter 1 Tutorial Week – Quilter’s Kanban – When Life Meets Logistics, With Elita

by Katy Cameron | 03.04.2014 | Finish Along 2014, Finish Along Tutorials

I’m happy to have my friend Elita here today to show you how to be more organised.  I seriously need to be more organised about things, so I might have to invest in a whiteboard and post-its PDQ!  Anyway, anyone that runs as many businesses as Elita, including...
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From Rock Beach Padstow seemed so near and yet so From Rock Beach Padstow seemed so near and yet so far, so we hopped in the car and drove round 😁. It was all gloomy on that side of the water, but there were some nice wee boats in the harbour - see if you can spot the man taking his footballs out to sea and the Skegness lifeboat. The Alms Houses made LT's little symmetrical architecture loving heart sing, while my heart sang when my friend @flipflopfabricshop came by and bought me ice-cream... (Possibly also when we went into @tarquinsgin shop, but no photos of that *hic*) #jackdoesrockbeach #jackdoespadstow #jackdoescornwall
Yesterday we pottered about a little closer to the Yesterday we pottered about a little closer to the holiday cottage we're staying in, starting in Polzeath and walking over land to Daymer Beach, then back round the coastal path to Polzeath, where we stopped for lunch at the beach before popping over to Rock. I reckon we should just have gone to the bar, but LT muttered something about it not being open yet, so on we trudged in the hot sun... There were lots of people on Daymer Beach and many walking round to Rock on the sand. In the distance across the estuary was Padstow, which wasn't at all where LT thought it would be, so she was all discombobulated. Polzeath Beach was really rather busy, but since the tide was out people mostly got to distance themselves, even if there were some complete tossers from London trying to be surf boys and ignoring any distancing in the cafe queue 😡. In the last pic you can see the crazy ferry queue on Rock Beach as they all waited to cross to Padstow. We reckon by the time the last of the queue got over it would have been time for the last ferry back! #jackdoespolzeath #jackdoesdaymerbeach #jackdoesrockbeach #jackdoescornwall
Round 2 of part 2 of yesterday's adventures (we do Round 2 of part 2 of yesterday's adventures (we do hope you're keeping up here!). Although there are still one or two seaworthy vessels in the harbour at Lizard Point, you can see why the RNLI might have abandoned the lifeboat station here! (There's a fancy new one round the other side of the point). From the old point there were some lovely views over Kynance Cove towards Penzance and Land's End (which looked south-er to me, but what do I know? 🤷) #jackdoeslizardpoint #jackdoescornwall
Round 1 of part 2 of yesterday's adventures was do Round 1 of part 2 of yesterday's adventures was down to Lizard Point in the last hour and a half before sunset. Fair to say it would seem that the locals are setting up in competition with Land's End, wonder if those two cafes ever have a bet to see which shifts the most ice-cream 😂. Anywho, we had a nice wander around (unsustained, as said cafe was closed for the day), but we definitely spotted pirate activity @archiewonderdog ! We also headed over to the old Lizard Point (not quite sure how one distinguishes one old pile of rocks from another mind you!) #jackdoeslizardpoint #jackdoescornwall
In the vertical shots from part 1 of yesterday's a In the vertical shots from part 1 of yesterday's adventures, we went by St Mawes and saw a baby castle, then it was onto the main show. One should always have one's own bay, complete with yacht on front of one's country pile, what? There were rather superb views right out to sea from said country pile, and the house @nttrelissick wasn't bad either! We found a nice wee view for breakfast, but skipped a paddle at the beach. There were more impressive houses and yachts on the was back into Falmouth, obviously a place to go if you have cash. #jackdoestrelissick #jackdoescornwall
So yesterday was a two-parter, and we were so knac So yesterday was a two-parter, and we were so knackered and hungry when we got home, the pretty pictures needed to wait til today! In part 1 we caught a @falriver ferry from Falmouth over to St Mawes and up to Trelissick (yes, that's it in the first photo 😂. CalMac eat your heart out). The mouth of the river Fal was very busy, but also rather wide, making clear phone pics a bit challenging for her nibs, but there was a sailing boat that handily got close enough to the ferry, framing itself with Trelissick House in the background. The house itself will have to wait for the horizontal shots, but I've decided to claim it as my own as it comes with 'Jack's Summerhouse' so logically it must be mine... It also has a fancy, if not slightly random tower, with a golden squirrel weathervane that turned every time we took a photo - sneaky squirrels! But look what we found for lunch! @callestickfarm ice-cream - salted caramel and rhubarb topped with clotted cream and rhubarb, with real, tasty rhubarb bits! (LT's got a bit addicted to rhubarb this year for some reason) #jackdoestrelissick #jackdoescornwall
The midday view from @nttrelissick Not a bad wee d The midday view from @nttrelissick Not a bad wee day really
In round 2 of today's Tintagel adventures, there w In round 2 of today's Tintagel adventures, there were caves (@archiewonderdog I reckon they were full of pirates and smugglers) There were drops that one of us wasn't stupid enough to get close to. I had the key to Tintagel AND I found the holy grail, but then I also found a closed ice-cream van at the bottom of the hill, so I had to wait for LT to schlepp all the way up the hill back into the village before I got any refreshment! #jackdoestintagel #jackdoescornwall
So we went to see a castle today, except it turns So we went to see a castle today, except it turns out there isn't really a castle there (and until the 1990's they thought it was a monastery 🤷) it was very blowy and sunny (LT is glowing 😂) there were lots of big drops and scary bridges and just one castley looking bit of wall. There were funny signs, holes in the ground we shouldn't have gone down (trolls anyone?!), holey kings, cool coves and, in the end, paltry amounts of ice-cream. #jackdoestintagel #jackdoescornwall
And a final, flowery installment from yesterday's And a final, flowery installment from yesterday's Eden Project adventures, including some spiky appetite suppressant (no great surprise we think!) And some spiky stuff that's meant to be good for you, but didn't look too appetising either! #jackdoestheedenproject #jackdoescornwall
More from yesterday's trip to the Eden Project - w More from yesterday's trip to the Eden Project - we had some interesting lunch companions, and might have been a tad over ambitious about the meal itself! We walked it off in the Mediterranean biome though. #jackdoestheedenproject #jackdoescornwall
The verticals from the outside and biosphere 1 fro The verticals from the outside and biosphere 1 from today's Eden Project adventures, where Jack even found a bar... But it was closed, so no rum for him (it would only have set @miniarchiewonderdog 's sensors all buzzing anyway!) #jackdoestheedenproject #jackdoescornwall

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