It’s almost a year since I wrote this post about the new Gathering Blooms Block of the Month I had designed for Today’s Quilter magazine. Well here is the finished quilt! I’ve really enjoyed making these blocks every month, they are a lovely mix of piecing and needle-turn applique and of course I got to …
The Gathering Blooms BOM officially starts today with the publication of issue 94 of Today’s Quilter! I wrote a whole post about this new BOM a few weeks back which you can read here. Please note that the 60% off subscription offer is still valid but of course you won’t get your first issue with …
A few months back in this post I told you all about The Thread House Club’s new Summer Breeze BOM and promised to share my finished quilt here. Well here it is! And as this was finished months ago I now have a number of other Summer Breeze inspired makes to share, all ahead of …
I have something very exciting to share with you today. I am about to take over the Block of the Month slot in Today’s Quilter! This will be the third time I have been the TQ BOM designer and I think I may have said ‘never again’ after the last time. But then I had …
At first glance a new mini version of my patchwork pony and this finished Free Bird Quilt don’t seem to belong together but they are actually connected by The Thread House Club. I’ve been making my Summer Breeze quilt which is our next Thread House Club BOM quilt in my chosen palette of Dashwood Pop …
My teaching travelling trips have now slowed down (after a big post-covid catch up) and I am enjoying being at home this summer and getting on with some new projects. Some of which are still too secret to share much about, but read on for a sneak peek or two… One thing I can shout …
Happy New Year! And goodbye to 2021 whose main redeeming feature was being a bit better than 2020! To carry on a decade long tradition I’m greeting 2022 with a mosaic round up of the quilts I made during the last 12 months. For this photo collage I’ve included some mini quilts as the 10 …
There is much excitement at The Thread House HQ this week as we prepare for our new BOM Club to start next week! I first wrote about our second yearly Block of the Month Club in this post but I now have a finished quilt to share along with a few new samples made using …
EDIT: Thanks to all who linked up their Bedding Plants finishes and entered the giveaway! The winner is number 17 Pen Sprawson. Huge Congratulations Pen!! Please email me your address. Commiserations to the rest of you but you are all leaving this experience with some beautiful finished (or nearly finished!) quilts, so that’s well done …
My second version of our Thread House Club BOM Folk Dance Quilt is now finished! We launched our first BOM club last summer and have been busy sewing together since October. With just two more blocks to go and with the launch of next year’s BOM looming I decided to push ahead and finish the …