Excuse me while I blow a little dust off this blog… where did August and September go?! I am amazed to find that I haven’t written a post since July!! So it’s definitely time for a catch up and I have a few new posts planned over the next few weeks to make up for …
Back in May I wrote a post all about the Freehand Rainbow Applique class I had taught at the Making Zen Retreat and the cushions I’d made with my class samples. You can read that post here. I’d already became a little obsessed with the rainbow applique and had completed two cushions and a coaster. …
My first quilt finish of 2022 is called Watermelon Eyelashes. This is quite a long post as I’ll be discussing how you can put too much pressure on yourself and become paralysed by it. So buckle up! This quilt begun almost a year ago after I taught my Journey to the Centre of the Earth …
I thought you might like to know about a project that I’m launching this weekend on live TV! I’ve been collaborating with the lovely people at Crafter’s Companion to produce die sets for their Build A Block range. These work with their Gemini machine and are a fantastic alternative to using a rotary cutter for …
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 …
Earlier in the year I had been planning a series of ‘Sew-in Days’ at my shop to start making this year’s quota of quilts for the Social Bite Village Quilt Drive, but of course like so many things these couldn’t go ahead. This is a charity quilt drive that I started 2 years ago to …
I’ve been taking a break from making large quilts this year and instead have been working on smaller projects and embroideries. I’m enjoying exploring more of my favourite techniques (improv piecing, curves and applique) and slowing things down with some hand stitching. Towards the end of last year I taught my Embellishment evening class which …
Settle down everybody for today I have quite a quilt story to tell… I should have written this post 3 weeks ago. The quilt was finished and photographed and I had started to write the blog post and was waiting for photos to load when I went back to check a little detail and discovered …
Welcome back for part 2 of this week’s Hoop Art Tutorials! Following on from the earlier post I am offering a second hoop art idea, this time EPP and this post also comes with the free templates and tutorial to make this Water Lily EPP block. Why all this Hoop Art? It’s all to do …
The Quilter’s Guild of the British Isles is celebrating it’s 40th birthday this year and they are marking this in many different ways. One of them is the 2019 Specialist Group Challenge. One of the antique quilts from the guild’s collection, the Edwin and Mary Bloomfield Coverlet, has been chosen to be reinterpreted by members. …