Hello! Today I am entering my Modern Medallion Quilt into the Original Design category of the Blogger’s Quilt Festival! I have taken part in almost every Blogger’s Quilt Festival since they started but I missed last Autumn’s. So it’s good to be back and showing this finished quilt for the first time!! I made the …
Including mine! There are still places left on my Cathedral Window workshop at Simply Solids in Huddersfield on Saturday 13th June, and now you can get 15% off if you book any of their workshops by May 18th! Just use code class15 at checkout!! The photo above was taken of our current shop window. I …
I’ve made quite a few bags over the years, but they have all been pretty basic. I can either do a tote bag or one with a box gusset like the one above. Regular readers will know that I have serious problems following patterns and therefore am doomed to ‘make things up as I go …
The Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild are hosting another one of our ‘An Evening With…’ events. Following on from An Evening with Luke Haynes and An Evening with Karen Lewis this next event is An Evening with… ME! And I promise I am not making them do this and it wasn’t even my idea!! I know …
I have a crochet finish!! After 3 years my Wool-eater blanket is complete! This is a wonderful free pattern from Sarah London’s blog and one of the first crochet patterns I tackled. I finished my first wool-eater blanket about 5 years ago for a friend’s 50th birthday, you can see it here. It was made with …
It’s getting close to the publication of 50 Fat Quarter Makes! You may remember me mentioning this a few times in the past (or maybe more than a few!) as I am one of the contributors. Over the last couple of weeks there has been a Stash Busting Blog Hop going around promoting both my …
Yes! They’re ready and they’re here! The Stitch Gathering 2015 tickets are now ready to buy! Purchase your ticket here!! This will be our third annual event and will be bigger and better than ever, with more teachers, more workshop choices and more events!! We’ll be announcing all of that some time in May. Meanwhile …
Somehow I found myself signing up for another Instagram swap! I think it was late last year and of course the April deadline seemed so far away at the time… This is the UKminiswap organised by Nina and to be honest I was very attracted by the reduced postal rates involved in having a partner in …
Who fancies some Weekend Quilting over this extra long weekend? The lovely folks at Love Patchwork and Quilting have put together this one-off bumper magazine which is a kind of greatest hits from the last year or so of their issues. So if you missed the issue with my Clamshells Cushion in… Or my Gossip …
There hasn’t been much time for sewing during what I am calling ‘Mental March’. I have hardly drawn breath since I came back from QuiltCon, what with 2 ‘Fairs’ on consecutive weekends, lovely Karen Lewis staying with me last weekend, 2 magazine commission deadlines (so I have been sewing but nothing I can show you!), …