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 …
Back in June I shared my latest batch of 6 donated Social Bite Village quilts in this post. At the same time I put out a call for some more quilts and you lovely generous quilters answered! Two weeks ago I dropped off 16 quilts! Thank you so much to all the wonderful donors. Now …
Earlier in the year I had been planning a series of ‘Sew-in Days’ at my shop to start making this year’s quota of quilts for the Social Bite Village Quilt Drive, but of course like so many things these couldn’t go ahead. This is a charity quilt drive that I started 2 years ago to …
I have big news about my plans for 2020! This year I will be moving my main teaching studio from our Edinburgh store to a new building at Shangri la Farm we were live! As many of you will know my husband, Jonathan, builds Tiny Houses at Tiny House Scotland. We have our own NestHouse …
GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!! Thank you so much for all your entries and for all your great suggestions for a ‘dream team’ retreat faculty. A special thank you to all those who suggested ME! Flattery will get you… well nowhere in this giveaway actually as Mr Random Number Generator picked the winner!! And the winner …
Sunday saw the SEVENTH annual Stitch Gathering Retreat in a very dreich and rainy Edinburgh. I am just amazed that we have now hosted so many of these! And I know I probably say this every year, but this was the best one yet! And it’s all down to my fabulous team, which includes these …
Welcome back for part 2 of this week’s Hoop Art Tutorials! Following on from the earlier post I am offering a second hoop art idea, this time EPP and this post also comes with the free templates and tutorial to make this Water Lily EPP block. Why all this Hoop Art? It’s all to do …
As many of you will know I organise an annual one day quilting retreat called the Stitch Gathering. Every year we have a Ticket Project where I send something to all the attendees which they use to make their ‘ticket’ they then hand this in on the day to gain admittance. in previous years I …
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’ve had a bit of time away from quilting deadlines since Christmas and this has given me some space for experimentation. This started when I needed a Christmas present for a neighbour and so I stitched a couple of panels of scrappy improv for a pouch. I used up the odd left over class sample …