I’ve made quite a few bags over the years, but they have all been pretty basic. I can either do a tote bag or one with a box gusset like the one above. Regular readers will know that I have serious problems following patterns and therefore am doomed to ‘make things up as I go …
The Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild are hosting another one of our ‘An Evening With…’ events. Following on from An Evening with Luke Haynes and An Evening with Karen Lewis this next event is An Evening with… ME! And I promise I am not making them do this and it wasn’t even my idea!! I know …
I have a crochet finish!! After 3 years my Wool-eater blanket is complete! This is a wonderful free pattern from Sarah London’s blog and one of the first crochet patterns I tackled. I finished my first wool-eater blanket about 5 years ago for a friend’s 50th birthday, you can see it here. It was made with …
It’s getting close to the publication of 50 Fat Quarter Makes! You may remember me mentioning this a few times in the past (or maybe more than a few!) as I am one of the contributors. Over the last couple of weeks there has been a Stash Busting Blog Hop going around promoting both my …
Yes! They’re ready and they’re here! The Stitch Gathering 2015 tickets are now ready to buy! Purchase your ticket here!! This will be our third annual event and will be bigger and better than ever, with more teachers, more workshop choices and more events!! We’ll be announcing all of that some time in May. Meanwhile …
Somehow I found myself signing up for another Instagram swap! I think it was late last year and of course the April deadline seemed so far away at the time… This is the UKminiswap organised by Nina and to be honest I was very attracted by the reduced postal rates involved in having a partner in …
Who fancies some Weekend Quilting over this extra long weekend? The lovely folks at Love Patchwork and Quilting have put together this one-off bumper magazine which is a kind of greatest hits from the last year or so of their issues. So if you missed the issue with my Clamshells Cushion in… Or my Gossip …
There hasn’t been much time for sewing during what I am calling ‘Mental March’. I have hardly drawn breath since I came back from QuiltCon, what with 2 ‘Fairs’ on consecutive weekends, lovely Karen Lewis staying with me last weekend, 2 magazine commission deadlines (so I have been sewing but nothing I can show you!), …
I’m delighted to be sharing my Lone Star Rising quilt with you today! I made this quilt at the beginning of the year for Quilt Now magazine. It is the first Lone Star I have made and I totally fell in love with the pattern. I can see a few more Lone Star quilts in …
While I was at QuiltCon I took part in the ‘Go Tell it at The Quilt Show’ film project with the Quilt Alliance. They make short films of quilters talking about their quilts and did quite a few at QuiltCon, check them all out here. So if you’d like to watch me rambling on and …