The Stitch Festival is held each year, over four days at the Business Design Centre in London and is a wonderful event for anyone interested in dressmaking, patchwork and quilting, crochet, knitting, embroidery and much much more. Alongside an extensive workshop programme there are curated displays of textile work, a fashion show and lots of […]

I do think that January can be a difficult month. Here in the UK it is cold and grey with short days. With this in mind perhaps a little gift of a hanging heart or a heart coaster or mug rug would help to brighten up someone’s day. These are quick makes and there is

It is always lovely when you see a lot of hard work come to fruition. I have co-authored Weekend Makes English Paper Piecing with Jemima Schlee. The book contains 25 projects using EPP. The projects use a variety of shapes including hexagons, triangles, diamonds, clam shells, apple cores and projects where shapes are combined together.

Connecting Threads are a group of quilters who meet in Elstree in Hertfordshire and last month I had the pleasure of visiting to teach a Fabric Collage workshop. I always enjoy teaching this workshop as the student work is developed from a photo or picture or piece of art that they have bought to class

It is lovely to be able to support various charities with quilt making. This heart block pattern was given to members of one of the groups that I belong to for the purpose of using it for making quilts for charity. The blocks finish at a good size and are easy to stitch. They are

There are lots of really great temperature quilts around and I have been fascinated looking at all the different ways that people have been interpreting the theme. If you haven’t come across a temperature quilt before do have a search on social media and I think that you will be surprised as to what you

I really love visible mending on denim and exploring all the various types of patches and stitches that you can use to mend jeans and denim items. To date I have solely focused on mending on denim but last month I teamed up with Victoria who mends on wool to run a couple of evening

I have a Christmas project in Love Sewing Magazine for a bed topper. The project is actually multifunctional and could be used either on the bed or as a table runner. It is stitched in a soft grey and cream colour palette with a few appliqued snow flakes thrown in for good measure. The fabrics

I have a project in this month’s Patchwork and Quilting magazine . In fact the quilt has made it to the cover! The quilt is called Sweet Dreams and I have used fabrics from The Dreamer collection by Lewis and Irene. I just love these fabrics and the rust, pale grey and pinks seemed to

I have been teaching a monthly class at Tudor Rose Patchwork in Bedford for the last five months and the students have been working on my Hearts and Stars in the Garden quilt. Each month we have added another part to the quilt so that they have slowly been growing. Last week we added the