Welcome to my stop on the Keep Calm Brit Hop! And thanks so much to Jo Westfoot for getting us UK based quilting businesses together and using our blogs and sewing wisdom to help keep you all distracted and occupied through the lockdown period. You can read Jo’s intro post here. I’m delighted to welcome …
Happy New Year! It feels good to be getting back to normal after the festivities and I am delighted to share what I have been working on over the last week or so. Back in August the lovely folks at Oakshott Fabrics asked me if I would like to design something using one of their …
My Dandelion Clock quilt is finished and ready to share! This all started when I designed a block for the Summer Sampler 2019 using my Freehand Foundation Piecing technique (tutorial available here). I thought it looked a bit like the quarter of a dandelion clock (a VERY abstract interpretation of a dandelion clock!). I enjoyed making …
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 …
I love a bit of improv, or ‘playtime in the sewing room’ as I like to think of it, so when Nick Ball of Quilts From the Attic asked if I would join the book tour for his new book ‘Inspiring Improv’ I said ‘yes please!’ Published by Lucky Spool, Inspiring Improv is a technique …
A lot of my time is spent coming up with new designs for quilts and new designs for classes and sometimes both things at once. I often turn my magazine quilts into new workshops (usually due to student’s requests) but with a full-time teaching studio and three annual retreats I am still always searching for …
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. …
Last year I was asked to take part in an international group quilting event called World Wide Whispers. Have you heard of Chinese Whispers Quilts before? I had and had always thought it an intriguing idea. I will explain exactly what this involves if you keep reading. This was called ‘World Wide Whispers’ because it …
I’ve had a bit of time away from quilting deadlines since Christmas and this has given me some space for experimentation. This started when I needed a Christmas present for a neighbour and so I stitched a couple of panels of scrappy improv for a pouch. I used up the odd left over class sample …
I have a quilt finish and it is only 11th January! In fact I finished this a week ago but as it’s for a gift I have been waiting to post about it. This is a very long running WIP which I can trace back (thanks to this wonderful blog archive) to the summer of …