It’s been a while since I had a project in a magazine but now, just like buses, two have landed at exactly the same time. One is quilting and the other is embroidery which adds a nice balance to this post. The first one is my Landscape Wardrobe mini quilts as featured in the latest …
Happy New Year! And goodbye to 2021 whose main redeeming feature was being a bit better than 2020! To carry on a decade long tradition I’m greeting 2022 with a mosaic round up of the quilts I made during the last 12 months. For this photo collage I’ve included some mini quilts as the 10 …
Here’s a bit of festive embroidery to ease you into the Christmas period. Plus I have some exciting embroidery related news to share in this post so please read on… This is my Scattered Stars Pillow which uses star shapes and jewel colours to create a cushion that looks good at Chrismas but can be …
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 …
Today is the start of a two week Instagram Book Tour to celebrate the publication of my new book Modern Crewel Embroidery. It’s happenning over on Instagram because so few of my guests keep a blog, however some of them do and will be writing blogposts as well, AND I will be writing a round …
It’s time for some embroidery! The time has come to start talking about my new Modern Crewel Embroidery book with a little more urgency as it is due for release next month! This means I can now share some of the projects from the book and tell you a little more about it. I’ve got …
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 …
It’s time to put our flower rows together and finish our Bedding Plants quilt! It’s very exciting to see this already happening in the Facebook Group and on Instagram and I am just delighted with how many of our ‘quiltalongers’ have managed to keep up and stitch all their rows. In this post I thought …
We have reached our final flower, the crocus! If you have got this far in the Bedding Plants QAL then well done! I am just back from a gruelling yet wonderful trip to Festival of Quilts where I was teaching, giving lectures, working on both the Handi Quilter and Aurifil stands, and hanging out with …
Part 4 of the Bedding Plants QAL is the FAN FLOWER! Everyone did so well with their poppy blocks and managed all those curves perfectly. So now it’s time to dip our toes into the FPP water… I know FPP can be scary for some and TBH it can be tricky at first. I have …