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. …
Did you think I’d gone for good?! I didn’t mean to leave a whole two months between posts (the longest I’ve ever left in nearly a decade!) but I was working on a really big project that took all my time and energy (there’ll be more info on this in the New Year) and this …
Back in June I finished the Clamshell Cushion below. It had started as a class sample and then hung around in the WIP pile for a few years before I was in a tidying mood in the Spring. It reminded me how much I like to work with this shape and technique. Around the same …
Today I am revealing a brand new quilt! This is my Giant Button Card quilt, made for the RJR Fabrics ‘What Shade Are You?’ Blog hop! Every week RJR Fabrics feature a quilt made by a different quilt blogger using their gorgeous Cotton Supreme Solids. They approached me earlier in the year and I was …
The lovely people at Lucky Spool sent me Kristi Schroeder’s new book Southwest Modern and I’ve been feeling really inspired by it! It’s part quilt book and part travel book which definitely makes it stand out from the crowd. Kristi is a native Texan and in her book she takes us to five different Southwest …
I’ve been a bit busy with classes and quilt shows recently and have a number of projects on the go but none at the right stage to share with you here yet. But I did manage to finish the Improv Mini that I started in Lu Summer’s Class at Fat Quarterly Retreat this summer. I …
Years ago when I started writing this blog I would share the gestation of every quilt, with sneak peeks and progress reports until the day I could say ‘it’s finished!’ But here’s a quilt I have been working on, intermittently, since the summer and I realise I haven’t mentioned it here once! I think this …
The lovely ladies of the Cherish Circle of Do Good Stitches Charity Bee have made a splendid job with the Far Across The Sea blocks for my month as quilter. I provided a tutorial and more info on this block in this post. It was lovely to receive little parcels of patchwork loveliness from all …
Apologies for being a bit quiet at the moment. I have become a victim of my own success – my craft classes are going so well that I am totally wearing myself out teaching them! And it is leaving me with very little time to make pretty things and, more importantly, look at all the …
You lot are so amazing! You always offer generous and spot-on advice whenever I ask. Thank you! I asked you about this quilt top a few months back in this post. I was using it to develop a workshop on the Quilt As You Go technique, but something wasn’t working and I was in a …