At first glance a new mini version of my patchwork pony and this finished Free Bird Quilt don’t seem to belong together but they are actually connected by The Thread House Club. I’ve been making my Summer Breeze quilt which is our next Thread House Club BOM quilt in my chosen palette of Dashwood Pop …
Last week I delivered 12 quilts to the Social Bite Village in Edinburgh as part of the Quilt Drive I started two years ago when the village opened. You can read all about the Social Bite Village, the quilt drive, and my involvement with it in this post. I was recently sent a report with …
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 …
I am currently in a high state of excitement due to my forthcoming trip to QuiltCon in Nashville next week! This will be my 3rd QuiltCon after Savannah in 2017 and Austin in 2015 and I’m sure this one will top those previous trips due to even more UK pals travelling with me, and even …
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 …
This year’s Pantone of the Year colour is Ultra Violet and as usual the lovely Rebecca and Sarah have organised another Quilt Challenge! I entered this for the first time last year and had so much fun that I thought I would try again this year (and also I really like purple!). You can see …
Last year I made a mini quilt as my entry to the Pantone Quilt Challenge. It was one of my first forays into the obsession which would become ‘Tendrils’! You can read about this first quilt here. Meanwhile Alice, the editor at Love Patchwork and Quilting, asked me to make a version of the mini …
I’ve entered a bit of a frantic period with lots of magazine commissions due all at once, lots of teaching in the studio, and the Stitch Gathering coming up on Sunday – eeek! Normally I wait until I have lovely finished project to chat about over here, but alas I have nothing finished I can …
Is an addiction to zippy pouches a recognised condition?! If so I think I better get some help as I can’t stop making them! I’ve been talking about my Tendrils Technique in my last few posts. The pouch above was the first one I tried with this technique, using Dashwood Studio ‘Paper Meadow’ fabric. I …