I’ve had some free time this week so I decided to do a little recreational sewing (as opposed to work sewing!). I recently got hold of a copy of Amy Gibson’s new book The Quilt Block Cookbook. You may know Amy from her blog Stitchery Dickory Dock (such a great name!). There are so many …
CONGRATULATIONS to the person behind comment number 14! It’s Amy Crafty Shenanigans! Amy’s Crafty Shenanigans1 September 2016 at 22:45 Cube quilt is stunning and the crockery is very fun!!!! ReplyDelete Amy has won my The Thread House pattern giveaway and wins a copy of both of my patterns! Phew so pleased she said she …
Our The Thread House patterns are now ready to purchase! You can check them all out here. Right get ready for some serious quilting eye candy… We are so pleased with our first six patterns! We hope you like them too. At present you can only buy them as a download but paper patterns will …
Following on from yesterday’s Conkers Quilt unveiling, here is my second pattern for our first The Thread House release – The Crockery Cupboard Quilt! Eagle eyed readers will recognise the bowl motifs from an earlier version, my Dishes Quilt which featured in Today’s Quilter last year. I loved making those bowls so much that it got me thinking …
Many of my loyal readers will have heard me talk about The Thread House. This is the new quilt retreat and pattern venture I started earlier in the year along with my two partners Karen Lewis and Lynne Goldsworthy. Well it’s nearly time for us to release our first patterns! The launch is scheduled for …
Thanks so much to everyone who joined in my Color Brigade Bundle giveaway! The winner is…. Number 67 – Catherine! Congratulations Catherine, I will email you separately! Commiserations everyone else 🙁 But maybe you won the Instagram bundle? Better go and check!!
I mentioned earlier in the week that I would be hosting a little giveaway this weekend (just made it phew!). I have some Color Brigade fabric left over from making my New York Beauty quilt, enough for two Fat Eighth Bundles with twelve fabrics each. I thought it would be nice to share these with …
Welcome to my New York Beauty Showstopper! This was the design brief I had from my lovely editor Jen when I discussed making a quilt with Jennifer Paganelli’s sumptuous new line ‘Color Brigade’ (I know, it’s an American name so it has American spelling, just grit your teeth and let it go). I have a …
Those of you on social media may already have heard my good news (and the rest of you my have heard my extra loud gasps all the way from Birmingham!) but I’d like to share it over here on the blog too. My quilt was HIGHLY COMMENDED at the Festival of Quilts!!!! This is my …
A few weeks ago we announced the workshops for our Thread House Retreat in January. The retreat sold out after just 6 days! Karen, Lynne and I are teaching two workshops each (the most popular of which can be repeated) and one of mine is needle-turn applique. So I thought it would be nice to …