Today I’m delighted to share a new finished quilt! This is Intertwined and it’s made from all my Improv Flowers Workshop class samples, plus some extra details. I’ve been teaching this class since 2017 when it was a workshop choice at that year’s Stitch Gathering retreat. The initial spark was a class I took with …
It’s been quite a while since I last posted, I hope you’ve not been missing me too much! I have been fulfilling a lot of teaching obligations which date back two years and were all cancelled due to covid. This has kept me very busy, and though I have been making progress on various ‘class …
It’s been a while since I had a project in a magazine but now, just like buses, two have landed at exactly the same time. One is quilting and the other is embroidery which adds a nice balance to this post. The first one is my Landscape Wardrobe mini quilts as featured in the latest …
Things have got a little quieter around here as we get ready for Christmas. I love this time of year when work sewing slows down and I get a little playtime in the Schoolhouse. I’ve been neglecting my bird applique patterns for a while now. Every year I think I’ll get more than one new …
My temperature quilt is finished! And in time to enter it for the special exhibition at QuiltCon Pheonix next year. I started Weather Bubble almost immediately after the first Covid lockdown last year and I wrote about it in this blogpost here. I also wrote two further blogposts during the year it took to complete …
There is much excitement at The Thread House HQ this week as we prepare for our new BOM Club to start next week! I first wrote about our second yearly Block of the Month Club in this post but I now have a finished quilt to share along with a few new samples made using …
Today I’m delighted to share my finished Tiny Improv World quilt. The quilt top was finished during the first lockdown when I put together many collected sample pieces from all the Tiny Improv Streetscape classes I had taught. I actually didn’t have quite enough (having made plenty into puches and bags!) and so I needed …
A month or so ago I started a lovely new community project called the Forthline Project: “The idea was inspired and developed by a group of experienced craftworkers, supported by the Edinburgh Shoreline project.The finished creations will be combined so that the whole Forth shoreline story can be displayed in whole and/or local sections. The …
What a strange year. My teaching used to involve interractions with real life students and plenty of travel. Now I spend my time recording myself on my phone or teaching groups via zoom where I hear their disembodied voices asking questions from my laptop. Not all of this is bad as I really don’t miss …
Back in March, before the world went crazy, I received an invitation from Aurifil Thread to join their band of Aurifilosophers and become one of their certifed educators. The Aurifilosophy programme started a couple of years ago and is now being expanded beyond the USA with new Aurifilosophers appointed in Canada, Australia and the UK. …