Issue 17 of Love Patchwork and Quilting hits the newsstand today and it includes the next project in my ‘stitchy series’, this time Sashiko! Karen Lewis’s quilt on the front cover is just delightful and a real bright spark in these dark months. I am in love with Fiona’s spool bunting – what a genius …
Hello 2015!! I hope you all had a good festive period and are now ready for the New Year! Whilst I am keen to get on with 2015, I always find this is a good time of year to look back and review any achievements from the past year. So I have been compiling a …
Pouchy for presents that is! I’ve come to the zippy pouch very late in the day, having let my colleague Naomi teach our class in this subject in the past. But armed with this excellent tutorial from Flossie Teacakes I turned this hexy sample piece (that I made during my demos at the recent ICHF show) …
There are 2 reasons why I am so excited to show you this quilt. One is that it made the cover of the latest issue of Quilt Now magazine!! This is my first project for Katy and so I was really honoured to be the cover star! Especially after flicking through the mag and seeing …
I’ve been working on a short series of ‘stitchy’ projects for Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine and the first one to appear in print is this Scandi style needlework cushion. It’s in issue 16 which should be out now and features Lynne’s fabulous Honeycomb Hexie quilt on the cover. The photo at the top is …
I signed up for the IGminiswap during an evening of social media frenzy and mass hysteria (you know how it is), and at the time the shipping date seemed SSSOOOOO far away. But of course it comes around… So very last minute I started this just 2 days before I needed to ship. I knew …
I’ve been planning to make this quilt for a while now. It’s going to be a new 10 week evening course at myBearpaw Studio. But of course I never leave myself enough time! I started it a month ago and completed a large centre and a border of HSTs. I had some positive feedback on …
Welcome to my stop on the Winged Blog Tour! I am so delighted to be taking part and sharing this Meadow Wall Hanging I made with Bonnie Christine’s beautiful fabric line. Once you’ve had a good read here you must check out some of the other posts on the tour – so much wonderful inspiration! …
Are you in the London area? Would you like to come along to a workshop taught by yours truly at The Village Haberdashery?? I am going to be teaching my Feathers Quilt (as featured on the cover of Love Patchwork and Quilting earlier this year) at their shop in West Hampstead on Saturday 28th March …
Issue 15 of Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine hits the newstands today and I am so happy to be able to share this month’s project with you… …my Dala Horse! And look, he made the cover too!! This was one of my favourite projects for LP&Q that I’ve done so far. The nice thing about …