I thought you’d all like an update on the Social Bite Homeless Village Quilt Drive. Well I’m delighted to say that so far I have either received or been promised 33 quilts! Yes 33 quilts from a standing start! You guys are just amazing! Such kind generous people 🙂 I have 10 quilts here (that’s …
What a week it’s been for weather! Almost all of the UK has been in the grip of the ‘Beast from the East’ and Shangri la Farm is buried under a deep blanket of snow. I have had to cancel all my classes even for tomorrow and the supermarkets look like the zombie apocolypse has …
Welcome to month 5 of the Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along! Wow we are getting through them, nearly half way now! This month we will be making bowls! Some of you may recognise the block above from my ‘Dishes Quilt’, the first quilt that I made for Today’s Quilter (issue 3). I loved how this …
I am so honoured and pleased to have a quilt included in the QuiltCon Magazine 2018! This is Quilt Invaders, probably one of the most minimalist quilts I’ve made. This is the second time one of my quilts has appeared in the QuiltCon magazine, Mid Century Modern was in the 2016 magazine. The magazine is …
The lovely people at Lucky Spool sent me Kristi Schroeder’s new book Southwest Modern and I’ve been feeling really inspired by it! It’s part quilt book and part travel book which definitely makes it stand out from the crowd. Kristi is a native Texan and in her book she takes us to five different Southwest …
Welcome to a new charity quilt drive I am launching today! Some of you may know that my husband, Jonathan Avery, builds Tiny Houses for a living. About 18 months ago he was approached by a very remarkable man named Josh Littlejohn who is the driving force behind Social Bite. You can read all about …
We have secured our usual venue for the Stitch Gathering Retreat 2018! So mark your calendars for Sunday 7th October! Tickets will go on sale in early April. Make sure you are signed up to our newsletter via the Stitch Gathering website to be the first to hear about it. Or just keep an eye …
Welcome to Month 4 of the Today’s Quilter Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along! This month it’s all about storage. Perhaps you’ve had a big re-organisation or a clear out of unwanted clutter at the start of the year? Maybe you’ve found some new (or vintage) tins or containers to store stuff in? Well that’s the …
And so our second Thread House Retreat has come and gone! We returned to Folly Farm in Bristol with another 45 Retreaters from around the world for a jam packed weekend of workshops, fabric, frolicking and fun! We started things off on Friday afternoon with a fabulous goody bag (thank you to all our amazing …
Introducing Modern Love which I designed for the Modern Quilt Guild ‘Quilt of the Month’ feature. I’ve had this quilt in mind since I made my Conkers Quilt 18 months ago and I finalised the design back in March last year. It has been hard keeping it as a secret all this time! My Conkers …