What a productive start to the year I’ve had! In this post I’m going to be showing off this first batch of charity orphan quilts, telling you about The Golden Bobbins and reporting on my current Moxie quilting practices and some recent troubleshooting. Let’s start with The Golden Bobbins. This is the name of my …
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 …
There is much excitement at The Thread House HQ this week as we prepare for our new BOM Club to start next week! I first wrote about our second yearly Block of the Month Club in this post but I now have a finished quilt to share along with a few new samples made using …
I have a new quilt to share today. This is my Dresden Daisy quilt, made earlier this year for Today’s Quilter. Almost every year for the last five I have scored the cover quilt for the issue that comes out at the same time as Festival of Quilts. In fact I plan a ‘show-stopping’ quilt …
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 …
I have two finished flower themed quilts to share with you today! Both were quilted on my Handi Quilter Moxie and I have again learned a huge amount. So in this post we’ll be exploring the quilting of my Journey to the Centre of a Flower quilt and my new version of the Bedding Plants …
I’ve just completed my third quilt finish on the Handi Quilter Moxie! I’m going to be sharing the story of this quilt as well as another ‘Moxie Report’ on my long arm quilting progress. This quilt was begun back in 2018 when I started to make blocks along with the Splendid Sampler 2 book and …
About 10 days ago a pallet arrived at Shangri la Farm with all of this!! Yes my Moxie has arrived! This is the new long arm quilting machine by Handi Quilter and I am lucky enough to have one of the first in the UK. You can read all about the start of my Moxie …