At the Stitch Gathering 2015 we sent attendees fabric and asked them to embellish it with their favourite word. This would then be their ticket. We asked for words to be positive and life affirming. You can read more about the ticket words project inception here. Our amazing retreaters brought along fabulous works of art …
I am helping Maggie’s Centre with a charity quilt drive to help them celebrate their 20th birthday in November, and I’m hoping some of my dear readers may be able to help us. We are looking for donations of quilt blocks for a special memory quilt that will eventually hang in Maggie’s Centre Edinburgh and …
As most of you will know I was very busy this weekend hosting the third annual Stitch Gathering! While I am gathering my thoughts (and recovering!) and before posting a full report, I wanted to tell you about our EMQG quilt raffle that we launched at Sunday’s event. You may remember the quilt our Edinburgh …
I am so proud of our Edinburgh Modern Quilt Guild. We only started our group less than a year ago and yet look at this stunning quilt we made together!! Have you heard about the QuiltCon Charity Quilt Challenge? The Modern Quilt Guild asked groups to make a quilt to be exhibited at this year’s …
Yes it’s my third FAL finish this quarter! That’s a record for me 🙂 This is my Together Circle Quilt. This is the circle I belong to in the do. Good Stitches group on Flickr. Every month we produce a new quilt for charity. I am usually a stitcher which means I just sew 2 …
Just snuck in to this quarters Finish-a-long! With just a few hours to go before the deadline I am listing again the UFOs that I failed dismally to finish last quarter. I only managed to finish one of the six projects I listed at the beginning of the year and so I am featuring them …
I only managed to take part in the first quarter of last year’s finish-along, and only managed to finish 2 things! How useless am I? To tell you the truth I am actually quite a good finisher so I don’t usually have loads of projects to add. But this year I seem to have found …
Things are slowing down a bit for me as we get close to Easter and I get a break from classes. So I have been having a little crafting fun with some small makes that I can get done in a few hours. Like this patchwork and embroidery frame purse, which came straight out of …
At last I’ve finished my Cherish Circle Quilt! The Cherish Circle is part of Do Good Stitches, a charity bee on Flickr. Every month we make 2 blocks each and every month a new quilt is born to give away to somebody deserving. Our group has made some really gorgeous quilts (take a look at …
The lovely ladies of the Cherish Circle of Do Good Stitches Charity Bee have made a splendid job with the Far Across The Sea blocks for my month as quilter. I provided a tutorial and more info on this block in this post. It was lovely to receive little parcels of patchwork loveliness from all …