With spring on the horizon, I'm delighted to introduce you to my new Petit  FOUR pattern, the Spring Cottage Sampler, before its release on the 1st of March. Last year Andrea - from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company  - and I posted parcels of Tilda-filled loveliness to our block of the month participants, with each block taking them on a restoring ramble deep into the heart of the English countryside as we searched for the first signs of spring. My inspiration for this quilt c

With spring on the horizon, I'm delighted to introduce you to my new Petit  FOUR pattern, the Spring Cottage Sampler, before its release on the 1st of March. Last year Andrea - from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company  - and I posted parcels of Tilda-filled loveliness to our block of the month participants, with each block taking them on a restoring ramble deep into the heart of the English countryside as we searched for the first signs of spring. My inspiration for this quilt c

With spring on the horizon, I'm delighted to introduce you to my new Petit  FOUR pattern, the Spring Cottage Sampler, before its release on the 1st of March. Last year Andrea - from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company  - and I posted parcels of Tilda-filled loveliness to our block of the month participants, with each block taking them on a restoring ramble deep into the heart of the English countryside as we searched for the first signs of spring. My inspiration for this quilt c

With spring on the horizon, I'm delighted to introduce you to my new Petit  FOUR pattern, the Spring Cottage Sampler, before its release on the 1st of March. Last year Andrea - from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company  - and I posted parcels of Tilda-filled loveliness to our block of the month participants, with each block taking them on a restoring ramble deep into the heart of the English countryside as we searched for the first signs of spring. My inspiration for the Spring

It's Valentine's Day this weekend, so I'm posting a little love-letter to our current block of the month programme, the Nutcracker , and introducing you to our cast so far... Sewing with Tilda Fabrics' Merry Little Christmas collection, we've decorated our Christmas Tree, met the hero of our tale, the Nutcracker, his dastardly - but darling - foe, the Mouse King, and listened to both a Grandfather and a Cuckoo clock chime midnight. This month we met the handsome Prince and ma

With spring just around the corner I'll be looking out for sleepy bees waking from their winter slumbers. Even though the weather's still dreary, thoughts - if not deeds - will turn to clearing flowerbeds and planting seeds in the hope of summer blooms in the cutting patch. Which has inspired my new project in Today's Quilter (issue 137) ... You may recognise the classic Irish Chain setting from my To Skye quilt. I scaled it down slightly and have loved being able to use it

I mentioned in my last post that I'd been experimenting with extra wide, single-fold binding - with some fussy cutting thrown in for good measure - based on a wonderful tutorial by Carrie Nelson for the Fat Quarter Shop  and here, as promised, are my tips if you'd like to do the same.       Deciding on the width of the binding (& other notes)   My first step was to decide on the width of the binding. My measurement was based on the pattern repeat of vertical bands of roses ac

Curtseys at the ready, because I have some rather regal projects to share with you today. Designed to celebrate the launch of Liberty's new Palace Gardens collection, let me formally introduce you to the Royal Posies quilt and it's charming companion, Garden Party Bunting . Liberty commissioned the quilt to introduce their Palace Garden collection at the H&H Americas trade show last spring and they asked me to base my design on motifs from the Royal Posies print in the col

Twenty four bonus half-square triangles really are a gift. When I'd finished making my Christmas Market quilt last year, I had a delicious little stack of HSTs left over from trimming the market stall blocks and, given that there was a Christmas Tree at the centre of the quilt, I decided to make some classic basket blocks and turn them into a matching tree skirt. I'll be honest, that was twelve months ago and I planned to share the tree skirt when the pattern appeared in To