A quick look back at 2015 and a bumper crop of quilts! This isn’t even all of them as I have 3 more that I haven’t/can’t post about yet! So it’s been a very productive sewing year for me and now it’s on to 2016 (blimey, already?!!) and I’m pretty sure that will involve lot’s …
A happy New Year to all my dear readers! While I’m getting myself revved up enough to a write the first blog post of 2016 I thought you might like to hear about our ‘just launched’ sale… January Sale now on!! In store and online! 50% off all Christmas fabrics and bundles! Fat Quarters from …
There’s just enough time before Christmas is upon us to share this project I made for the current issue of Popular Patchwork magazine. If you are anything like me you will want to start the New Year with a big clear out and an organisation of your sewing room. If you’re not like me then …
This quilt is a bit different for me! Now I’ve started working for Today’s Quilter I have been lured away from the modern quilting style a little. Not completely though! I couldn’t ever make something I didn’t like! The idea for this quilt started way back at the Anna Maria Horner workshop at QuiltCon when …
Hello and welcome to my second guest post for the Farmer’s Wife 1930s Quilt Along. Today’s block is Crystal. This was actually the first block I made way back in August! I have to admit that I jumped into the QAL (and the guest posts!) in a moment of madness, and then worried that I …
I have a finish I can share with you as soon as it is finished! So many of my quilts are for publication these days that this is a bit of a novelty! This is my Improv Meadow Quilt, which is actually destined to be a wall hanging. It measures 37 x 43inches. I started …
…sung to the tune of ‘Matchstalk Cats and Dogs’! But unfortunately it doesn’t quite scan as well! I am wondering if younger people or those outside the UK are thinking I’ve gone mad – I have a feeling that was probably just a British hit single! There is a video at the end of this …
I recently got my hands on issue 2 of Simply Moderne magazine, this is the new quarterly mag from the people behind Quiltmania. I wrote about issue 1 here. As in the first issue, the mag is divided between articles about quilts and quilters and a number of0 projects. This issue has a large feature …
Oh Carolina! Hello and welcome to my first guest post on the Farmer’s Wife 1930s Quilt Along! And yes I hope you also have that old Shaggy song in your head now, as I have every time I think about this block! I actually made my version of Carolina months ago as soon as I …
I am so happy that I can at last share my Dishes Quilt with you! I came up with the idea for this quilt back in the summer and offered it to the editor of Love Patchwork and Quilting, Jen. But instead Jen wanted it for her new magazine Today’s Quilter. You may remember I …