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 …
Hopefully you all got a chance to read my post yesterday. The 6th of June was 10 years to the day since I started writing this blog and I spent a little time reminiscing and sharing my very first post. I also mentioned that I would be hosting a special celebratory GIVEAWAY today, to say …
10 years ago today I made a momentous decision and began writing this blog! At the time I doubt if I expected I’d still be writing it 10 years later and for it to have completely changed my life. It led to so many new opportunities and more importantly to so many new and lifelong …
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 …
After a six month absence I am back in Today’s Quilter this month. And I think they must have missed me as they’ve announced me on the front cover! They’re are a few quilts coming up over the next few months but I’m starting back with a small project. It’s this Harbour Scene Picture! I’ve …
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 …
It’s May the Fourth and I’m heading to a wedding reception tonight. It’s the wedding of one of my students, Suzanne and her fiance Scott, who are big Star Wars fans, hence the date they decided to tie the knot! I’ve become very fond of, and proper lifelong friends with many of my students over …
I first designed this little bear back in 2012. I had recently started designing embroidery patterns and my first was ‘Boris and his chicken’. This was the year of the first Fat Quarterly Retreat in London and I was taking part in a ‘sample swap’. In this swap you made 4 of the same handmade …
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. …