All my Tutorials
Who wants to try some nice gentle improv??!! Hopefully you’re all shouting “me, me, me!” with your hands in the air! Regular readers will know all about the Stitch Gathering retreat that I organise every year in Edinburgh and the fabric ticket project that goes along with it. Over the last three years we have …
Welcome to a second tutorial this month – I am spoiling you! This tutorial supports the two ‘Trip’ cushion kits we have just launched in our Edinburgh shop and online. Of course you could use it to just make your own version with fabric you already have. Or you could buy our kits which include …
I’ve been planning to write this blog post for years now, as much for my beginner patchwork students as for anyone else. This is the way I do all my binding and I’m going to explain why in this post. Recently I made 2 new cushions kits using versions of the Trip Around the World …
Welcome to the first stop on the Oakshott Colourshott Blog Hop! Hosted by Lily’s Quilt Blog this little season of inspirational posts will be bringing you a whole host of new ideas for using the wonderful Oakshott cottons! Recently I’ve returned to one of my first patchwork loves – foundation piecing, and more importantly free-hand …
For a while now I’ve had this gorgeous ‘Made for Adventure’ panel of Cori Dantini’s (from her The Sweet Life collection) and have been meaning to do something with it. Recently we put our remaining stock of these panels in our summer sale and I decided it would be a good time to finally make …
Today I am taking part in the Oakshott Colourshott bloghop! I am the first stop on the hop and very excited to be sharing this new tutorial with you all! You can check out all the other stops on the bloghop over at Lilys Quilts. A few weeks back the very kind people at Oaskhott …
Just wanted to let you know that you can find my Hand Quilting Tutorial as part of Finish-A-Long 2013 over on Leanne’s She Can Quilt Blog TODAY! As one of the FAL sponsors Leanne asked me if I’d like to do a tutorial and hand quilting is something I have had on my to-do list …
Who wants to make a panda?! Not just any old panda, but one of these pandas wearing really cool Liberty pants ?! Remember Sunshine and Sweetie up there? I did promise you a couple of months back that I would do a tute and here it is! Please assemble: Black and white felt plus a …
Do you remember this Raised Rose stitch that I used in my Sampler Tree embroidery? I have had a few requests for a tutorial so, in this post, I try my best to give one! I first ‘found’ this stitch by googling ’embroidery stitches’ and looking at the images. Above is what I found. Hopefully you …
I really hope you all like looking at photos of crocheted blankets because there is a LOT of them in this post! Here it is finished, the beautiful, gorgeous, totally delicious, Psychedelic Granny Square Blanket I started back in January! And I am completely in love with it! So much so that I dragged it …