I’m not the sort of quilter who keeps every last little scrap, in fact I’m pretty brutal with the sizes of scraps I throw away (otherwise I would be drowning in them even more than I actually am!), but when I finished making this 3D Improv Dresden block the fabrics were so pretty and looked …
I have a couple of different quilts on the go at the moment which aren’t for publication so I can share some WIP posts about them. This first one is quite exciting as it’s the first public commission I have ever had. One of my students, Morag, is a teacher at a local catholic primary …
Let’s get the news bit out of the way first! I know I asked you to vote for my shop a couple of weeks back in the Sew Awards but like buses, two award nominations have come along at the same time! I found out this week that I had been nominated for not one …
When I was asked to design the new Today’s Quilter Block of the Month I’ll admit to being both proud and nervous, seeing as I was following on from my quilt hero Jen Kingwell! Jen’s BOM was absolutely stunning so I had my work cut out! I had asked the TQ editor (another Jen) whether …
I seem to have lots of news to share, so this post will be a bit of a round up! First of all myBearpaw, my Edinburgh store, has been nominated for the best Scottish independent shop category in the British Sewing Awards!! How exciting and surprising! Apparently the nominations were all made by readers, so …
Congratulations to Sew Little To Say!! You have won my blog giveaway for the Stitch Gathering 2016 Goody Bag!! The Instagram winner was Silver Bells and Cockleshells – congratulations to you too! Commiserations to everyone else 🙁 But thank you so much for entering!!
We’ve just put our wood burning stove on for the first time since before summer, so in our house that means it’s officially Autumn! And as much as I hate the short days and the grey skies it is lovely to be warm and cosy inside. Regular readers will know that I have been …
Yes it’s that time again! I have kept aside two of the amazing goody bags from this year’s event to giveaway! You can enter one giveaway here on the blog and the other on Instagram! But let’s take a closer look at what you will be winning… 1. From Immediate Media we have a copy …
It was our fourth annual Stitch Gathering retreat on Sunday!! As usual this took place in the Craiglockhart campus of Napier University in South Edinburgh. And as usual we had 90 excited and enthusiastic quilters in attendance!! Here I am giving my welcome speech, goodness knows what I am talking about here! This was just …
Issue 39 of Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine comes out today and I have a quilt featured! This is my Square Cogs quilt made with Joel Dewberry’s gorgeous Wander fabric (the same line I used for my Crockery Cupboard quilt). Absolutely love this modern sampler quilt by Karen Lewis on the cover! And Karen has an …