The latest batch of 13 quilts just left me and is heading for the Social Bite Village so I thought it was a good time for a review post and a chance to share these beautiful donated quilts in more detail. I have been collecting up quilts since the last batch left here in May …
Some of you may remember my call out for quilts for the Social Bite Village early last year, and then regular update posts showing all the beautiful quilts I received. You can read the first post here and the post when the village opened here. If you want to see more quilts just enter ‘social …
I have six beautiful new donated quilts to share with you but first I wanted to talk about the opening of the Social Bite Village! The official launch happened over a month ago with a gathering of all the folks involved in the project plus lots of media and local dignitaries. I attended with Jonathan …
About 18 months I launched a Quilt Drive to make a special quilt for Maggie’s Centre in Edinburgh. It was the brain child of one of my lovely students, Cat, who had recently had cancer and had got through the experience with the help of Maggie’s Centre and Quilting (Cat attended my Beginner’s Patchwork and …
Is an addiction to zippy pouches a recognised condition?! If so I think I better get some help as I can’t stop making them! I’ve been talking about my Tendrils Technique in my last few posts. The pouch above was the first one I tried with this technique, using Dashwood Studio ‘Paper Meadow’ fabric. I …
I’m sort of on holiday at the moment. The studio is having it’s summer break for the next 6 weeks so I’m not teaching, but I still seems to have a lot to do! I think that’s the problem with this ‘gig economy’ they keep talking about – I just have too many businesses to …
Our workshops for this year’s Stitch Gathering Retreat have just been announced and I thought I would share my two new class samples with you. As you can see from the mosaic above there is a fabulous selection of classes on offer this year from our new guest tutors, Mandy Munroe, Lucy Brennan and Sarah …
I finally had some time to finish a quilt this weekend! This is a version of my Feathers Quilt that I’ve made during the last three years that I’ve been teaching this workshop. The pattern was in Love Patchwork and Quilting issue 9 (and it made the cover!), and has been one of my most popular …
Here’s a little call for help for all you knitters out there! Can you knit a white Rose for a special Jo Cox memorial in June? Barbara, who works in our shop is helping her niece and the school she works at with this project. We will happily take roses dropped at the Edinburgh shop …
I can’t believe it is already two weeks since I came home from QuiltCon – it really seems just a beautiful dream to me now! But I was there and I’m sure you want to hear all about it! The photo above is the crowd surging into the show on the first day, and you …