My temperature quilt is finished! And in time to enter it for the special exhibition at QuiltCon Pheonix next year. I started Weather Bubble almost immediately after the first Covid lockdown last year and I wrote about it in this blogpost here. I also wrote two further blogposts during the year it took to complete …
There is much excitement at The Thread House HQ this week as we prepare for our new BOM Club to start next week! I first wrote about our second yearly Block of the Month Club in this post but I now have a finished quilt to share along with a few new samples made using …
EDIT: Thanks to all who linked up their Bedding Plants finishes and entered the giveaway! The winner is number 17 Pen Sprawson. Huge Congratulations Pen!! Please email me your address. Commiserations to the rest of you but you are all leaving this experience with some beautiful finished (or nearly finished!) quilts, so that’s well done …
It’s time to put our flower rows together and finish our Bedding Plants quilt! It’s very exciting to see this already happening in the Facebook Group and on Instagram and I am just delighted with how many of our ‘quiltalongers’ have managed to keep up and stitch all their rows. In this post I thought …
I have a new quilt to share today. This is my Dresden Daisy quilt, made earlier this year for Today’s Quilter. Almost every year for the last five I have scored the cover quilt for the issue that comes out at the same time as Festival of Quilts. In fact I plan a ‘show-stopping’ quilt …
We have reached our final flower, the crocus! If you have got this far in the Bedding Plants QAL then well done! I am just back from a gruelling yet wonderful trip to Festival of Quilts where I was teaching, giving lectures, working on both the Handi Quilter and Aurifil stands, and hanging out with …
I thought you might like to know about a project that I’m launching this weekend on live TV! I’ve been collaborating with the lovely people at Crafter’s Companion to produce die sets for their Build A Block range. These work with their Gemini machine and are a fantastic alternative to using a rotary cutter for …
Not only is this the post for row 5 of the Bedding Plants QAL it’s also a tutorial for making my Project Pouch! We are motoring through these rows and are up to the tulips. This is one of my favourite rows to look at but not actually to sew as I’m really not that …
My second version of our Thread House Club BOM Folk Dance Quilt is now finished! We launched our first BOM club last summer and have been busy sewing together since October. With just two more blocks to go and with the launch of next year’s BOM looming I decided to push ahead and finish the …
Part 4 of the Bedding Plants QAL is the FAN FLOWER! Everyone did so well with their poppy blocks and managed all those curves perfectly. So now it’s time to dip our toes into the FPP water… I know FPP can be scary for some and TBH it can be tricky at first. I have …