These days I am in the enviable position of making quilts and sewing for a living. I have a wonderful life and every day I count my blessings. But making your living with your hobby does give you one problem – you need a new hobby! crochet is also part of my working life as …
And we have a winner! Comment number 98 … Congratulations Isisjem! And thank you all for taking the time to enter and give me all that great advice about storing fabrics! I have actually found a solution now I think, or at least I will have when I get to Ikea and get my OH …
The Stitch Gathering 2015 ticket is now landing on doormats all over the UK so I can now share our Ticket Project with you!! This year’s attendees will be receiving a special Stitch Gathering 2015 ‘I’m going!’ badge, a piece of Kona Snow and instructions. Instead of printing our SG logo on to the ticket …
It’s been a few months since I had any projects featured in Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine so I am excited to share my patchwork knitting bag and needle roll with you! Issue 22 is out now and my bag even made the cover inset shot! The snowball pattern is meant to resemble balls of …
To celebrate the publication of 50 Fat Quarter Makes and our Author’s Bloghop I am giving away a copy of the book plus a huge pile of fabric!! There are 28 different fabrics here, some Fat Quarters, some Fat Eighths, some in between and some even bigger! But they’re all killers no fillers!! Quite a …
Back in January I told you about a book I had co-authored, well it’s finally been published (more than a month early, slightly catching me off-guard!) and us authors have organised a bloghop to introduce ourselves and celebrate all our beautiful projects! There is a full schedule for the 50 Fat Quarters bloghop at the …
We have a vast selection of fabulous classes to share with you over on the Stitch Gathering website! We are changing things slightly this year with a full 3 hour workshop in the morning and then shorter ‘carousel’ type sessions in the afternoon. We hope this will make for a more informal relaxed afternoon with …
Welcome to the Blogger’s Quilt Festival Spring 2015! Today I am entering a second quilt to the Festival for the first time. This is my Lone Star Rising quilt which I am entering in the Modern Quilt Category. This is also the first time I have ever entered a quilt that I have previously posted …
Hello! Today I am entering my Modern Medallion Quilt into the Original Design category of the Blogger’s Quilt Festival! I have taken part in almost every Blogger’s Quilt Festival since they started but I missed last Autumn’s. So it’s good to be back and showing this finished quilt for the first time!! I made the …
Including mine! There are still places left on my Cathedral Window workshop at Simply Solids in Huddersfield on Saturday 13th June, and now you can get 15% off if you book any of their workshops by May 18th! Just use code class15 at checkout!! The photo above was taken of our current shop window. I …