At the Stitch Gathering 2015 we sent attendees fabric and asked them to embellish it with their favourite word. This would then be their ticket. We asked for words to be positive and life affirming. You can read more about the ticket words project inception here. Our amazing retreaters brought along fabulous works of art …
Happy New Year everyone! Let’s start 2017 with a brand new quilt! This is yet another pickle dish quilt, this time a straight-up version of the traditional pattern, made completely in Jennifer Paganelli’s new line Hotel Frederiksted (for Free Spirit Fabrics). Yay! It made the cover of Today’s Quilter! I actually received my copy …
Well 2016 has been quite a stand out year, and not always for the right reasons!! But on a more positive note… Look at all the quilts I made!! Yes I was pretty busy! And though I am very proud of all the lovely things I made (well most of them anyway…), I think I …
I planned to post about this before my recent holiday, and definitely before Christmas, but I just ran out of time. So now we are on ‘the other side’ (as I like to think of this rather relaxing time of year) I can finally write a post about my husband’s Tiny House and my recent …
I have had a VERY busy weekend! In fact I have had a very busy couple of months! And tomorrow I will be lying beside a pool in the sun as I am off on my hols to Tenerife!! I can’t wait! But before I go, I just have time to tell you about our …
At this year’s Festival of Quilts I re-joined the Quilter’s Guild. They help run the show and have a ‘recruitment’ stand there. I’d been planning to do it for a while having become re-connected with some of the Scottish groups through ‘trunk show’ visits over the last couple of years, and also through my work …
Introducing my new Thread House quilt – Starlights! And the third finish on the blog this week! Yes three months have (somehow) passed since our first patterns were released back in September. So it’s time for three more Thread House Patterns, and this is my offering. I was attempting something relatively simple ( I often …
Finished and with a new name! I wrote all about this quilt as a WIP last week and it was called ‘Pickled’ then, but my collaborator Tatyana had a better idea (well actually it was her hubby!). This is a two person quilt where I did the piecing and then Tatyana quilted it any way she …
I’m going to be sharing not one but THREE quilt finishes this week – phew! So watch out for more posts – but in the meantime… I wrote about this project a few posts ago here. It is a commission for an Edinburgh primary school to commemorate their 50th anniversary. I really had a lot …
I am juggling three very different quilt projects at the moment, with all of them about to reach fruition over the next week or so. I thought it would be nice to share a WIP story about this particular quilt which I hope to show you finished very soon. I’ve become a bit obsessed with …