Finished and with a new name! I wrote all about this quilt as a WIP last week and it was called ‘Pickled’ then, but my collaborator Tatyana had a better idea (well actually it was her hubby!). This is a two person quilt where I did the piecing and then Tatyana quilted it any way she …
I’m going to be sharing not one but THREE quilt finishes this week – phew! So watch out for more posts – but in the meantime… I wrote about this project a few posts ago here. It is a commission for an Edinburgh primary school to commemorate their 50th anniversary. I really had a lot …
I am juggling three very different quilt projects at the moment, with all of them about to reach fruition over the next week or so. I thought it would be nice to share a WIP story about this particular quilt which I hope to show you finished very soon. I’ve become a bit obsessed with …
I’m not the sort of quilter who keeps every last little scrap, in fact I’m pretty brutal with the sizes of scraps I throw away (otherwise I would be drowning in them even more than I actually am!), but when I finished making this 3D Improv Dresden block the fabrics were so pretty and looked …
I have a couple of different quilts on the go at the moment which aren’t for publication so I can share some WIP posts about them. This first one is quite exciting as it’s the first public commission I have ever had. One of my students, Morag, is a teacher at a local catholic primary …
Let’s get the news bit out of the way first! I know I asked you to vote for my shop a couple of weeks back in the Sew Awards but like buses, two award nominations have come along at the same time! I found out this week that I had been nominated for not one …
When I was asked to design the new Today’s Quilter Block of the Month I’ll admit to being both proud and nervous, seeing as I was following on from my quilt hero Jen Kingwell! Jen’s BOM was absolutely stunning so I had my work cut out! I had asked the TQ editor (another Jen) whether …
I seem to have lots of news to share, so this post will be a bit of a round up! First of all myBearpaw, my Edinburgh store, has been nominated for the best Scottish independent shop category in the British Sewing Awards!! How exciting and surprising! Apparently the nominations were all made by readers, so …
Congratulations to Sew Little To Say!! You have won my blog giveaway for the Stitch Gathering 2016 Goody Bag!! The Instagram winner was Silver Bells and Cockleshells – congratulations to you too! Commiserations to everyone else 🙁 But thank you so much for entering!!
We’ve just put our wood burning stove on for the first time since before summer, so in our house that means it’s officially Autumn! And as much as I hate the short days and the grey skies it is lovely to be warm and cosy inside. Regular readers will know that I have been …