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I've just launched a membership It's called The Patchwork Hub at Home. It's designed to help you grow your patchwork-quilting skills at your own pace within a friendly group of people of all levels of experience. The idea of forming a membership grew out of my...
I'm just getting back to running in-person patchwork workshops. Most recently I taught a class of four the process of patchwork Bargello. I won't lie, driving to the the workshop with a car load of equipment and samples, my stomach butterflies were all aflutter! Once...
After an unscheduled break from writing blog posts I have a bit of catching up to do! So, without further ado, here we go: The Beginners course ended successfully with my student finishing her lovely quilt. She's looking suitably proud of her achievement in this...
I began following the English Country Garden QAL in February 2021. I did intend to make all nine blocks and create the quilt-as-you-go quilt top... But best intentions and all that...I've got to the back end of 2021 with just four of the blocks completed. I enjoyed...
Phew! First of all let's get the weather chat out the way! Of course it is the number one subject here in the UK :-D After months of cool, very wet weather the temperatures have suddenly ramped up. Here in central southern England we have had a succession of days in...
Scrappy Scrap Basket. The Why? I often use scraps of fabric as an on-going leader-ender project. I have a bin of scraps within easy reach of my sewing machine and select a couple of scraps to stitch together each time I start or finish chain piecing patchwork units....
I invite you to join me on a bag making adventure :-) This is a self imposed challenge to learn new skills and maybe, maybe add bag making to my repotoire of workshops. I will endeavour to share with you what I learn as I follow the Pelican Tote pattern from Bagstock...
The three layers of a quilt sandwich are temporarily held together, basted, to keep them in place during the process of quilting. I think it's safe to say most quilters find basting a tedious necessity. I choose to pin baste, with varying degrees of success, and have...
My little basket of applique and English Paper Piecing notions is almost fit to bursting! Funny how each branch of patchwork quilting calls for another collection of bits and bobs :-) My latest purchase is a 2oz bottle of Roxanne Glue-Baste-It. Ridiculously...
The Basket of Blooms applique is continuing to give me opportunities to learn and practice new techniques. This week I made the yo-yo embellishments. First time making these and maybe not entirely successful as the holes in the centres look rather large - perhaps I...
