EDIT: Thanks to all who linked up their Bedding Plants finishes and entered the giveaway! The winner is number 17 Pen Sprawson. Huge Congratulations Pen!! Please email me your address. Commiserations to the rest of you but you are all leaving this experience with some beautiful finished (or nearly finished!) quilts, so that’s well done …
It’s time to put our flower rows together and finish our Bedding Plants quilt! It’s very exciting to see this already happening in the Facebook Group and on Instagram and I am just delighted with how many of our ‘quiltalongers’ have managed to keep up and stitch all their rows. In this post I thought …
We have reached our final flower, the crocus! If you have got this far in the Bedding Plants QAL then well done! I am just back from a gruelling yet wonderful trip to Festival of Quilts where I was teaching, giving lectures, working on both the Handi Quilter and Aurifil stands, and hanging out with …
Not only is this the post for row 5 of the Bedding Plants QAL it’s also a tutorial for making my Project Pouch! We are motoring through these rows and are up to the tulips. This is one of my favourite rows to look at but not actually to sew as I’m really not that …
Part 4 of the Bedding Plants QAL is the FAN FLOWER! Everyone did so well with their poppy blocks and managed all those curves perfectly. So now it’s time to dip our toes into the FPP water… I know FPP can be scary for some and TBH it can be tricky at first. I have …
Welcome to part 1 of the Bedding Plants QAL! We’ll begin by making the Rose Row. I’ll be sharing step images and tips as well as instructions for making the first of my new small projects, the Rose Cross Cushion! But first let’s take a look at some of the other issues that might come …
PART ONE OF THE QAL CAN BE FOUND HERE PART TWO OF THE QAL CAN BE FOUND HERE (CONTAINS NEEDLE-TURN APPLIQUE TUTORIAL) Finally, after a year of broken promises I am ready to launch the Bedding Plants QAL!! This is actually the first Quilt Along I have ever hosted and there is a surprising amount …
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 have such a lovely project to share with you today! Last year the Quilter’s Guild of the British Isles (which will be referred to as QGBI for the rest of this post!) asked me to take part in their new Quarterly Techniques venture for 2020. The plan is to explore the wonderful world of …
New Patchwork and Quilting basics is now officially published and starting to arrive with quilters so I think it’s about time we celebrate this with a BOOK TOUR! I’m kicking things off today with another look inside the book, a new make, and news of a giveaway. Then I’ll be handing over to my quilty …