Month 6 already! We are now half way through this QAL! This month it’s time for some plates. This was a tricky one because basically they are just a circle, so I struggled coming up with a design until I remembered portholes, a very versatile technique that I learnt from Lu Summers at the first …
I’ve waited such a long time to share this quilt with you! My Compass Spin quilt was finished last September, but due to the vagaries of magazine publishing it is only just being published today! It’s a simple version of a traditional compass block made from Denyse Schmidt’s Washington Depot collection by Free Spirit Fabrics. …
Back in November I posted about the 2018 Aurifil Designer of the Month programme and the exciting fact that I was one of this year’s designers! Well my month has come round already – eeek! The theme this year is ‘The Places We Go’ and the palette is Black and White and a Colour. This …
Welcome to month 5 of the Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along! Wow we are getting through them, nearly half way now! This month we will be making bowls! Some of you may recognise the block above from my ‘Dishes Quilt’, the first quilt that I made for Today’s Quilter (issue 3). I loved how this …
I am so honoured and pleased to have a quilt included in the QuiltCon Magazine 2018! This is Quilt Invaders, probably one of the most minimalist quilts I’ve made. This is the second time one of my quilts has appeared in the QuiltCon magazine, Mid Century Modern was in the 2016 magazine. The magazine is …
Introducing Modern Love which I designed for the Modern Quilt Guild ‘Quilt of the Month’ feature. I’ve had this quilt in mind since I made my Conkers Quilt 18 months ago and I finalised the design back in March last year. It has been hard keeping it as a secret all this time! My Conkers …
About 18 months I launched a Quilt Drive to make a special quilt for Maggie’s Centre in Edinburgh. It was the brain child of one of my lovely students, Cat, who had recently had cancer and had got through the experience with the help of Maggie’s Centre and Quilting (Cat attended my Beginner’s Patchwork and …
We had some wonderful entries for the SG Blend Fabrics Competition, thank you so much to everyone who took the trouble to make something and enter! It was very hard for us judges to decide. I was ably assistant by my two partners in quilty crime, Karen Lewis and Lynne Goldsworthy. In the end we …
I just read the 2016 version of this post where I said I wanted to slow down my quilt production in the following year and have a little more time to spend with family and friends (and myself) . Well though I still managed to fill a 16 square mosaic, a lot of the quilts …
Welcome to month 3 of our Vintage Home BOM quilt along! I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas. I always think this period between Christmas and New Year is an odd, disorientating time, I never know what day it is and I’m all out of my routine! So this latest issue of Today’s …