I’ve been a bit busy with classes and quilt shows recently and have a number of projects on the go but none at the right stage to share with you here yet. But I did manage to finish the Improv Mini that I started in Lu Summer’s Class at Fat Quarterly Retreat this summer. I …
We’ve been feeling very festive around here this week as we prepare for a bumper season of Christmas Crafts! Not only do I have some new Bearpaw Christmas Craft Classes to share with you, but we’ve also gone and organised a new Stitch Gathering Mini Retreat Day! We just couldn’t wait another year to do …
Thanks so much for all your entries. The giveaway was won by comment number 154 – Indiana. Congratulations!! I will email you separately. Commiserations to the rest of you 🙁 In other news, I have a new phone so can now join in all the fun on Instagram. So if you live over there too …
I am so delighted to write this post and share these photos with you. In posts on my blog you have all followed the progress of our Great Tapestry of Scotland panel since our group was formed and we began working on it just over a year ago. Well now all the panels are finished …
Our Scottish Modern Quilt Exhibition, which ran as part of the Edinburgh Fringe this year, was a great success. Visitors from all over the world came to see the quilts. And everyone seemed very impressed and interested in all the exhibits. We asked all our visitors to vote for their favourite quilt, not an easy …
So we gathered and we stitched (thanks Sheila for that great sentence!), and we got an AMAZING goody bag courtesy of all our fabulous sponsors! Look at all that booty! And I have saved one goody bag to give away to one lucky reader of this blog! But first of all I’d like to take …
Phew! What a day! I think I can safely say that it went very well and everyone had a lot of fun – I know I did! So I am just going to let the pictures do the talking here. First up is a video that our resident paparazzi (Jonathan) filmed of the ‘meet and …
A few months back I showed you some EPP hexies and suggested I had a plan for them. Well I had decided to produce a cushion cover kit for hand sewers, and though I finished the cushion ages ago, producing the kit feels like I have actually had to give birth to it! I think …
First of all, what do you think of my new blog design?! It’s really great having a husband who’s not only an IT genius but used to be a graphic designer as well. Jonathan is the brains behind our main website as well as the Stitch Gathering website, and now he has turned his attention …
It’s getting very nearly time for our Stitch Gathering Retreat! And I know some of you still haven’t made your nametags yet, so I thought I would do a post with nametag ideas that might be of help with last minute panics. I’ve been making a few of these to show at my Bearpaw Craft …