Edited: GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED! Congratulations to commenter number 8 – Jo!! I will email you Jo (and great colour choices!). Commiserations to everyone else. Thanks so much for entering everyone! Please read on for the Round up Post… The Modern Crewel Embroidery Book Tour has been happening over the last two weeks and this round-up …
Welcome to my stop on the Hand Embroidery Dictionary Blog Tour! I’ve had such fun trying out this fabulous new book by Christen Brown, published by C&T Plublishing, which has just been released. I also have an eBook copy to give away so read on for details about how to win it! EDITED FOR GIVEAWAY …
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 …
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 …
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!! Thank you so much for all your entries and for all your great suggestions for a ‘dream team’ retreat faculty. A special thank you to all those who suggested ME! Flattery will get you… well nowhere in this giveaway actually as Mr Random Number Generator picked the winner!! And the winner …
Hopefully you all got a chance to read my post yesterday. The 6th of June was 10 years to the day since I started writing this blog and I spent a little time reminiscing and sharing my very first post. I also mentioned that I would be hosting a special celebratory GIVEAWAY today, to say …
Earlier in the year the lovely folks at Free Spirit Fabrics asked if I’d join in with their Murmur Fabric Influencer Tour. Murmur is the new fabric collection from one of my favourite designer’s Valori Wells, so of course I said ‘Yes please!’. A beautiful box full of the new collection arrived a few weeks …
Congratulations to Muriel Campbell!! You have won the Stitch Gathering Goody Bag!! And who says the number 1 entry never wins??! This time it was lucky number 1! Thanks so much to everyone who entered and left such lovely enthusiastic comments about our event. I am so sorry you can’t all win! Please email me …
Last Sunday was the 6th annual Stitch Gathering! Every year I organise this one day event which is held in Edinburgh in October. Around 90 quilters come together for a fun filled day of sewing, chatting, shopping, learning and sharing! This year we had some new teachers such as the amazing Karen Lewis (seen here …
Yes that is a bit of a mouthful for a quilt title! Today I am taking part in an ‘instagram tour’, this is like a blog hop but on Instagram. But because I still like to tell my ‘quilt stories’ over here, where there is more room, I am blog posting too. Miss Mustard Seed …