…is on Saturday! The Sewing Quarter is a shopping channel focusing completely on sewing (dressmaking and patchwork mainly) which launched in January. I’ve been ‘promised’ since the beginning but my distance from the studio (in Birmingham) and trying to sort out projects and kits has meant it’s taken this long to get me on! I …
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 …
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 …
I’m giving away this Cathedral Window Cushion Cover on my Facebook Page! Help me get to 1000 likes!! Do you remember this cushion? it’s Essex linen in natural with Chicopee in the windows and hand sewn and hand quilted. I made it about 18 months ago and it has been much admired. But I’ve discovered …
At last I can share this quilt with you that I made back in January. And I’m so ecited that it’s the cover quilt on this month’s Love Patchwork and Quilting Magazine (out today!)! Eeek!! This was quite a big project as not only did they want a quilt with a matching cushion, but they …
First of all, what do you think of my new blog design?! It’s really great having a husband who’s not only an IT genius but used to be a graphic designer as well. Jonathan is the brains behind our main website as well as the Stitch Gathering website, and now he has turned his attention …
Do you remember a few months back I showed you a new magazine that featured my African Flower Crochet Bag? The publishers wanted to get pre-orders so had mocked up a cover showing lots of the featured bags. Well here is that actual magazine, Creative Bagmaking, out just yesterday. And as you can see my …
Here’s a cushion I finished back in January. I did give you a sneak peek and shared the embroideries I used, but now you can see the finished result. Another Cathedral Window (it’s becoming an addiction!), made again from Essex Linen this time in bleached white, and with vintage and new embroideries peeping through the …
A few weeks back I showed you my attempts to do something with Denyse Schmidt’s Chicopee line. I had attempted some EPP but abandoned it and started on a Cathedral Window project instead. Well here it is all finished, and I am really quite in love with it so there are a lot of photos …
Yes it’s time! You can finally buy your Stitch Gathering tickets NOW! We have had nearly 200 people registering their interest on our website and we’ve been teasing them with bite size pieces of information about the Retreat over the last few weeks. First of all we released the teacher’s names and then last weekend …