My Moon Tree Quilt is finished! I’ve been working on this since November last year when I started stitching these moon tree appliqué panels. I didn’t start out with the idea of making a quilt but I was enjoying sewing these so much that I knew I had to find a use for all the …
Well here is some exciting news… I have a new book coming out soon! Crewel Embroidery Handy Pocket Guide will be published by C&T Publishing at the end of August (most likely end of September in UK). If the cover looks familiar that’s because this book is a reduced version of Modern Crewel Embroidery, the …
It’s been quite a while since I posted over here! I’m sure I’ve been as busy as ever but working on many different projects at a time and not really finishing anything enough to share here. However I wanted to tell you about a little journey I’ve been on recently to create a Folk Art …
Today we launched the second year of our Thread House Academy. The first year has been a wonderful experience for both students and us! And now we have a whole new programme of classes planned for 2024/25. I thought I would share my classes here. We have three themed terms and the first is ‘curves’. …
The Dream Bird patterns have finally flown into view and can now be purchased as PDFs from my website here! Four years ago I launched my first PDF patterns with my first 4 bird applique patterns. Somehow these real life birds have now evolved into imaginary ‘dream birds’! I first started creating these back in September …
Sometime between Christmas and New Year 2022 I was trying to think of an idea for us to teach at our Thread House Retreats. We were focusing on hand sewing and slow stitching with a number of different techniques and I came up with the solution of making a fabric book with all our sample …
Welcome to part 1 of the Christmas reindeer Sew Along! The Antler Addendum is now ready for you to download. Just click here to go to the page on my website and click on the download link. From now on all purchases of the patchwork pony pattern will come with the antler addendum as standard. …
Excuse me while I blow a little dust off this blog… where did August and September go?! I am amazed to find that I haven’t written a post since July!! So it’s definitely time for a catch up and I have a few new posts planned over the next few weeks to make up for …
Before I had even finished the recent 100 Days of Organic Applique project I was already planning something very similar. In fact I had already created the first ‘page’ for a new book of Organic Applique with Embroidery. And now the Dream Flowers fabric book is complete and ready to share! Here is the first …
After a 100 days of stitching little 4″ studies I have completed my first ever 100 Day Project and have turned them all into a big fat fabric book! I first wrote about this project in this post when I was about 3 weeks in so it tells you a lot about how I started …