Amazingly we have arrived at the final month of our Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along already! I think one of the reasons it seems to have come around so much quicker than expected is due to the fact that I missed the blog post for month 11 – ooops! Sorry about that! This year August …
We are moving into the sewing room for month 9 of the Today’s Quilter Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along! I hope this will be a fun month for everyone. The row of spools above is such a nice quick project, and it’s a lovely way to showcase different prints. And then we have two button …
It’s that time of the month again – phew the weeks seem to speed by at the moment! Yes it’s month 8 of the Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along, and we have finally moved out of the kitchen and found ourselves a little light. This month’s blocks are a table lamp, complete with pleated shade, …
Yes that is a bit of a mouthful for a quilt title! Today I am taking part in an ‘instagram tour’, this is like a blog hop but on Instagram. But because I still like to tell my ‘quilt stories’ over here, where there is more room, I am blog posting too. Miss Mustard Seed …
Last year I made a mini quilt as my entry to the Pantone Quilt Challenge. It was one of my first forays into the obsession which would become ‘Tendrils’! You can read about this first quilt here. Meanwhile Alice, the editor at Love Patchwork and Quilting, asked me to make a version of the mini …
What a week it’s been for weather! Almost all of the UK has been in the grip of the ‘Beast from the East’ and Shangri la Farm is buried under a deep blanket of snow. I have had to cancel all my classes even for tomorrow and the supermarkets look like the zombie apocolypse has …
Welcome to Month 4 of the Today’s Quilter Vintage Home BOM Quilt Along! This month it’s all about storage. Perhaps you’ve had a big re-organisation or a clear out of unwanted clutter at the start of the year? Maybe you’ve found some new (or vintage) tins or containers to store stuff in? Well that’s the …
I’ve entered a bit of a frantic period with lots of magazine commissions due all at once, lots of teaching in the studio, and the Stitch Gathering coming up on Sunday – eeek! Normally I wait until I have lovely finished project to chat about over here, but alas I have nothing finished I can …
It’s a long time since I made a quilt with Kaffe Fassett fabric and I had forgotten what an uplifting joyful experience it can be! This quilt was destined for the issue of Today’s Quilter that coincides with Festival of Quilts so it always need to be a bit of a showstopper. And what better …
Presenting ‘Almost Black’, a new finished quilt and a bit of a departure for me. This got sent off earlier today to Festival of Quilts as my entry to the Modern Quilt category. I’ve been thinking for a while now about how to make applique look more modern and minimalist. My recent mini (for the …