Proper thinking about Christmas is still a few weeks away for me, but we’ve already started some of our Christmas workshops at myBearpaw studio. Yesterday we did Christmas Angels and had a lovely day creating pretty handmade ‘dollies with wings’. Here is the angel I made along with the rest of the class. Her name …
Excuse me a moment while I blow the cobwebs off this blog! A bit of a posting break occurred due to a lingering virus, too many magazine deadlines, a lot of classes and a 4 day show at Glasgow SECC that involved 4 EPP workshops a day! Today is my first proper day off in …
It seems a long time since I showed you something I made! All my time recently has been taken up with the Stitch Gathering or making stuff that I can’t show you yet. And then for the last week I have been either ill or busy organising our Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild Luke Haynes event …
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First of all let’s get those results out the way! The winner of the Stitch Gathering Goody Bag is number 86! Congratulations Gill!! I will email you privately to get your address 🙂 Commiserations to everyone else, but to make up for your loss let’s look at some pretty things. I wanted to highlight the …
So as you all know by now it was the Stitch Gathering Retreat week last Sunday. This year we printed our tickets onto a cotton tote bag and sent this to all our attendees along with a note telling them to embellish the bag anyway they wanted and then swap it with a secret partner …
It’s time to give away the contents of our fabulous Stitch Gathering Retreat Goody Bag!! And look how amazing it is! We were so lucky to have such generous and supportive sponsors. Coats gave us wonderful threads and needles, Groves and Bank provided the useful embroidery scissors, DMC the lovely embroidery thread, Nairns came up …
The second Stitch Gathering Modern Quilt Retreat took place on Sunday. I feel like I have hardly drawn breath since then as I’ve been desperately battling to finish a load of commissions in time. Plus there was this ‘thing’ going on in Scotland you might have heard about. It was very distracting! So I’m finally …
Have you heard of the amazing American quilter Luke Haynes?? Well he is coming to the UK next month!! And he is coming to Edinburgh and our Modern Quilt Guild are hosting ‘An Evening With Luke Haynes’ lecture!! The date is Friday 10th October, the place is The Eric Liddell Centre in Bruntsfield, the time …
About 18 months ago I bought a couple of Sashiko panels from a stand at the Scottish Quilt show at Ingliston. I started one of them straight away but didn’t get very far. After having done a fair bit of embroidery using a hoop I initially found it difficult not using one. You can’t use …