A month or so ago I started a lovely new community project called the Forthline Project: “The idea was inspired and developed by a group of experienced craftworkers, supported by the Edinburgh Shoreline project.The finished creations will be combined so that the whole Forth shoreline story can be displayed in whole and/or local sections. The …
I have finished my Temperature Quilt top! And I have started a Temperature Embroidery! I started the ‘Weather Bubble’ Temperature Quilt just over a year ago on 28th March and finished it yesterday 5th April. Each row is 17 squares and there are 22 rows (the closest I could get to 365 days). You can …
It’s ages since I posted about embroidery and I realised that I hadn’t even shared the exciting news here about my forthcoming book ‘Modern Crewel Embroidery’ which is due out in October. Since my Moxie arrived I’ve been very taken up with quilting but in the background there is always some embroidery going on and …
I’ve just completed my third quilt finish on the Handi Quilter Moxie! I’m going to be sharing the story of this quilt as well as another ‘Moxie Report’ on my long arm quilting progress. This quilt was begun back in 2018 when I started to make blocks along with the Splendid Sampler 2 book and …
What a strange year. My teaching used to involve interractions with real life students and plenty of travel. Now I spend my time recording myself on my phone or teaching groups via zoom where I hear their disembodied voices asking questions from my laptop. Not all of this is bad as I really don’t miss …
Back in March, before the world went crazy, I received an invitation from Aurifil Thread to join their band of Aurifilosophers and become one of their certifed educators. The Aurifilosophy programme started a couple of years ago and is now being expanded beyond the USA with new Aurifilosophers appointed in Canada, Australia and the UK. …
EDITED on 21st September: Congratulations to Marjory Bald who won the Giveaway! Commiserations to everyone else, but thanks so much for entering, and I hope you will all order the book anyway! Marjory I will contact you by email. Carina Envoldsen-Harris is a talened and proilific embroidery designer with a number of books under her …
Today I am sharing a new quilt finish along with news of the workshops I will be teaching at QuiltCon Together next year. Yes I am now part of the QuiltCon Faculty! QuiltCon wisely decided to change their 2021 physical event (planned for Atlanta) to a virtual one, which means everyone can get involved no …
Have you seen the beautiful ‘Andra Tutto Bene’ Rainbow mini quilt that the Aurifil team are sharing? Inspired by the stories of Italian children who turned to art as a means to cope with new restrictions and drastic changes in their day to day lives. They adopted a few simple words to spread hope and …
And so we come to the end of another year, in fact to the end of a decade! I love to look back at all the quilts I have made over the last 12 months, it’s a great way to round up the year and get ready for the new one ahead. What I notice …