This ‘book nerd quilt’ is such a great pattern to let your own individual style shine - travel around the world, bury yourself in the classics, whip up the romance or make a book cover that might inspire you to write a book of your own someday.
Read MoreI decided to start with a new quilt pattern and this time it was easy to decide what to do...it's been on my list for quite a while. 'Shoreham' is going to be a really pretty, fun project with a lovely seaside feel and it all stems from this photograph.
Read MoreA Cornish Sojourn - now that is just the tonic after a gruelling winter, a sick house and flagging spirits....and so it was. I am bubbling with inspiration from the sweeping coastline, the incredible gardens and the charming Cornish villages, peppered along the seashore. It is a land of myth and legend and I can see why - the imagination is free to roam around rocky islands, smugglers coves and ancient castles.
Read MoreEvery year, it gets to just before Christmas and I wish I had made a Christmas quilt....every year. But this year, I actually did it!
Read MoreThe brief was, Paris themed with pale green/turquoise. The fabrics were easy to select. I chose the backing first. This may seem a little unusual, but the more quilts I make, the more I am sure that the backing is a key piece of the jigsaw. Beautiful and bold backings really make the whole project just fantastic and in this case, allowed me to set the Paris theme and the colour way.
Read MoreI am rather charmed by this one. I love the soft colours, which is unusual for me as I am one for bright colour pops. Perhaps it is just that I am taken back to another time, when needlework was crafted with precision and used and loved and worn. I love that.
Read MoreApril brings another chance to get back to my 'Vintage Linen Revival Quilt Project'. It is rapidly becoming one of those deliciously theraputic projects.... no rules....no pattern....no specified fabrics.....just a box of old vintage linens that are falling apart and desperately in need of a new and exciting life.Block 4 has turned out way different to how I imagined when I started out.
Read MoreSo on this dark and chilly winter's evening, when I was thinking about what to make, red stars were in my mind and very soon on the sewing table.
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