Amazingly we are about to head into 2025! How can we be a quarter through this century already?! I’m so pleased I’ve continued to write this blog even though the distance between my posts stretches a little more each year, but these annual round ups of quilts are an important marker and I managed to …
I managed to (sort of) have two weeks off at the start of July. Running your own business from home means it’s hard to take a break without physically leaving home but I live in such a beautiful place that I don’t want to go anywhere else! So instead I try to avoid emails and …
I’ve spent the last few weeks getting ready for my next online class for The Thread House Academy. It’s my first of this academic year and it’s Poplars! You can read all about the original Poplars Quilt, and it’s genesis, in this post here, and also the first batch of Poplar class samples I made …
I have a finished quilt to share today, one that I started about a year ago. This is Beech Canopy and it was inspired by looking up at the tops of my favourite beech trees from below in the spring. I love that fresh green colour and the way the sun sparkles through them. I …
Today we launched the second year of our Thread House Academy. The first year has been a wonderful experience for both students and us! And now we have a whole new programme of classes planned for 2024/25. I thought I would share my classes here. We have three themed terms and the first is ‘curves’. …
I have temperature quilt projects to share and exciting news about the new Moxie XL! Regular readers will know all about my passion for Temperature Projects. You can read about my original Weather Bubble quilt here and since then I’ve completed a temperature embroidery and started (and then aborted!) a temperature crochet blanket. I’ve started …
It’s that odd time of year between Christmas and New Year when time seems to be more elastic and when I traditionally post a review of all the quilts I’ve made in the last 12 months. Every year my quilt total gets less and less! In many ways I think this is a good thing. …
It’s almost a year since I wrote this post about the new Gathering Blooms Block of the Month I had designed for Today’s Quilter magazine. Well here is the finished quilt! I’ve really enjoyed making these blocks every month, they are a lovely mix of piecing and needle-turn applique and of course I got to …
Excuse me while I blow a little dust off this blog… where did August and September go?! I am amazed to find that I haven’t written a post since July!! So it’s definitely time for a catch up and I have a few new posts planned over the next few weeks to make up for …
It’s been quite a while since I shared a finished quilt here! This Poplars Quilt is a bit special as not only is it my biggest quilt ever it’s also been many years in the making. And its the first quilt to have it’s photo shoot enabled by a telehandler! Let’s go back to the …