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 …
I have been busy recording the videos for my next The Thread House Academy class over the last few weeks and this has involved making some fun new items. I have been teaching this as an ‘in person’ workshop since 2018 when it was a class for that year’s Stitch Gathering (the annual one day …
It’s time for a Social Bite Village Quilt Drive post! I’ve been collecting and distributing donation quilts to the Social Bite Village in Edinburgh since 2018 and I am about to deliver another 10 quilts! That will bring the total donations to 124!! Huge thanks to all the amazing quilters who have contributed over the …
Two years ago I took part in my first 100 Days Project. This is a free global art project that takes place online every year. You can read about my first project, 100 Days of Organic Appliqué, and the subsequent fabric book I created in this post. The 100 x 4″ blocks I stitched became …
I have a new quilt to share with you today! This is Twelve Green Bottles and I made it for a new workshop in The Thread House Academy. We have just launched our third Academy year today with enrolment now open! Every year we plan a whole year’s worth of online workshops, one per month. …
Let’s start with the exciting news… I am getting one of the Textile Galleries at this year’s Festival of Quilts! This is a very big deal for me. I applied for a gallery six years ago and got rejected and it’s taken me a while to give it another shot. I am so excited to …
Amazingly we are about to head into 2025! How can we be a quarter through this century already?! I’m so pleased I’ve continued to write this blog even though the distance between my posts stretches a little more each year, but these annual round ups of quilts are an important marker and I managed to …
I’ve spent the last few weeks getting ready for my next online class for The Thread House Academy. It’s my first of this academic year and it’s Poplars! You can read all about the original Poplars Quilt, and it’s genesis, in this post here, and also the first batch of Poplar class samples I made …
I have a finished quilt to share today, one that I started about a year ago. This is Beech Canopy and it was inspired by looking up at the tops of my favourite beech trees from below in the spring. I love that fresh green colour and the way the sun sparkles through them. I …
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’. …