Today is the official launch of my new Passionflower thread collection on the Aurifil blog, and to celebrate I have designed a new embroidery pattern which you can download for FREE! I wrote about my Passionflower thread box in this post here. It contains 10 x 12wt spools in the beautiful shades I used for …
Yes… that IS me and Kaffe Fassett! This year my Festival of Quilts adventure began (at 8am!) with an appearance on the Sewing Quarter. And if you read my last post you will already know that the other guest that day was none other than the legendary Kaffe Fassett – one of my biggest design …
I’ve got my embroiderer’s hat on for a change today. As quilting is pretty much my full time job these days I like to think of other crafts like embroidery and crochet as my hobbies. But also sometimes I combine the two for an embroidery commission. I first designed this passionflower pattern a couple of …
My working life is roughly divided into four parts: MyBearpaw Studio and Shop Stitch Gathering Retreat The Thread House Retreat Quilting/Sewing Patterns for publication I always joke that I’m part of the gig economy as I need to run at least four businesses to survive! Actually I am only partly joking and sometimes I can …
I have three new book reviews to share with you today! I’ve even used one of the books to make a gift and I’ll be sharing that too. The first one is a new e-book by one of my favourite embroidery designers Carina Envoldsen-Harris. Carina taught at the Stitch Gathering a few years ago and she’s …
Welcome to Month 4 of the Today’s Quilter Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along! This month it’s all about storage. Perhaps you’ve had a big re-organisation or a clear out of unwanted clutter at the start of the year? Maybe you’ve found some new (or vintage) tins or containers to store stuff in? Well that’s the …
The lovely Carina Envoldsen-Harris came up to Edinburgh to teach at the Stitch Gathering last year and at the time she was launching her second embroidery book. Well now she has published her third! Search Press sent me a copy to review and very kindly offered another copy for me to GIVEAWAY! More on this …