Adventures in patchwork and other handmade crafts
I have been working on this quilt for months, which slowed down making anything else and also my video creation because this one I definitely had to keep a secret, under the MQGs orders! It was designed for the MQGs Quilt of the Month series, but unfortunately didn’t make...
Ooh goal time again! Since I don’t have ANY print deadlines on the horizon, I’m thinking about my WIPs more. Maybe that will mean more success, or maybe it will be more thinking and less sewing… So here’s my list, I bet regulars are so bored of some of...
Oops, I’m a few days later than I promised! If you have some neat large prints, or panels or just fabric that you love and want to use large pieces of, this layout could work for you! I designed it around Robert Kaufman’s Discover Canada 1 and 2 lines,...
Here is Canada 151, named because I used fabrics that were released to commemorate the Canadian sesquicentennial last year, and then didn’t actually make anything until just before Canada Day this year, finishing up on the stat day itself! Here are some of my favourite squares: Apart from changing...
I was so excited to get the Tula Pink rotary cuter for Christmas, it felt nice and weighty but comfortable in my hand, and like a good quality product. However, things changed a few months in. I made a vlog about my experience with the cutter (and the shop...
Recently, I’ve been working on a project (to be shared soon) that I’ve not been able to blog or Instagram about, but it’s been that much of a long slog, that it looks like I’ve been doing nothing for the last month or two, no new bags made, no...
I don’t feel like writing much at the moment, but I do want to share some quilts from the Heritage Park show this weekend. I showed some of my book returns and rejects and they were mostly kept together… Hoots Mon; Doe, Stag, Fawn triptych Barley the Mouse; Fabulous...
Today I’m introducing Metal & Vinyl! Metal & Vinyl is my newest Etsy shop (that makes three now), and I plan to supply local sewists and bagineers with cool stuff that you probably haven’t seen anywhere else. If it’s quirky, I’m going to try and stock it! I love...
It’s sad to say, but Popular Patchwork will be no more after the June issue (pictured). I’ve enjoyed working with the magazine for five years as a writer, and then for a couple of years before that when I edited a sister title (that had a similar fate). It’s...
It’s been a while since this last happened – my Scallops quilt is the cover star of the latest (May?) issue of Popular Patchwork! It’s in most large newsagents in the UK. My grandma is kindly posting me a copy. I have seen it in large Chapters stores here...