I’m so pleased that I can finally share this special quilt with you. This is my Avery Garland quilt which I made for the new issue (52) of Today’s Quilter, which comes out today in the UK. And it made the cover! It’s a mixture of English Paper Piecing and applique which I started back …
Well I survived Festival of Quilts! I am taking a bit of a break this week to recover but I thought I would just pop in to share a link to my latest Sewing Quarter appearance which was on Sunday. You can watch me sewing both my Feathers quilt (below) and my Scandi Stitch Pillow …
Settle down everybody for today I have quite a quilt story to tell… I should have written this post 3 weeks ago. The quilt was finished and photographed and I had started to write the blog post and was waiting for photos to load when I went back to check a little detail and discovered …
I love a bit of improv, or ‘playtime in the sewing room’ as I like to think of it, so when Nick Ball of Quilts From the Attic asked if I would join the book tour for his new book ‘Inspiring Improv’ I said ‘yes please!’ Published by Lucky Spool, Inspiring Improv is a technique …
A lot of my time is spent coming up with new designs for quilts and new designs for classes and sometimes both things at once. I often turn my magazine quilts into new workshops (usually due to student’s requests) but with a full-time teaching studio and three annual retreats I am still always searching for …
I’m super happy to have a quilt on the cover of Today’s Quilter after a long break! In fact it’s been a long time since I had a quilt project actually in the magazine. After spending the last few years designing their Block of the Month series and then working on my book I haven’t …
Have you heard about the new Great British Quilter Podcast? Sarah Ashford founded the Great British Quilter Challenge nearly 3 years ago now. This is a month long photo challenge on Instagram, where quilters respond to daily prompts. Last year Sarah launched the GBQ Aurifil thread box, curated alongside Charlie Mankin of Sydney Rose Designs and …
Earlier in the year the lovely folks at Free Spirit Fabrics asked if I’d join in with their Murmur Fabric Influencer Tour. Murmur is the new fabric collection from one of my favourite designer’s Valori Wells, so of course I said ‘Yes please!’. A beautiful box full of the new collection arrived a few weeks …
Some of you may remember my call out for quilts for the Social Bite Village early last year, and then regular update posts showing all the beautiful quilts I received. You can read the first post here and the post when the village opened here. If you want to see more quilts just enter ‘social …
The Quilter’s Guild of the British Isles is celebrating it’s 40th birthday this year and they are marking this in many different ways. One of them is the 2019 Specialist Group Challenge. One of the antique quilts from the guild’s collection, the Edwin and Mary Bloomfield Coverlet, has been chosen to be reinterpreted by members. …