Today is my stop on the book hop for That Handmade Touch, a stylish and practical book by Svetlana Sotak. I have been reading Svetlana’s blog for years now and feel as if I know her well despite us never having met IRL. I also enjoy her beautifully restrained Instagram feed full of gorgeous bag …
My working life is roughly divided into four parts: MyBearpaw Studio and Shop Stitch Gathering Retreat The Thread House Retreat Quilting/Sewing Patterns for publication I always joke that I’m part of the gig economy as I need to run at least four businesses to survive! Actually I am only partly joking and sometimes 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 …
I’m sort of on holiday at the moment. The studio is having it’s summer break for the next 6 weeks so I’m not teaching, but I still seems to have a lot to do! I think that’s the problem with this ‘gig economy’ they keep talking about – I just have too many businesses to …
Our workshops for this year’s Stitch Gathering Retreat have just been announced and I thought I would share my two new class samples with you. As you can see from the mosaic above there is a fabulous selection of classes on offer this year from our new guest tutors, Mandy Munroe, Lucy Brennan and Sarah …
Following on from yesterday’s QuiltCon Report post I’d like to look in more detail at one of the workshops I attended and the projects I’ve made from it. This was Adventures in Small Piecing with the adorable Chawne Kimber. Though I think it should be renamed ‘Adventures in Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Piecing’ as the word …
I’m not the sort of quilter who keeps every last little scrap, in fact I’m pretty brutal with the sizes of scraps I throw away (otherwise I would be drowning in them even more than I actually am!), but when I finished making this 3D Improv Dresden block the fabrics were so pretty and looked …