The lovely Candice from My Felt Lady recently created a free felt ornament pattern that includes three different designs; a candy cane, a felt lollipop and wrapped candies. Made in red and white felt, they’re traditional and super festive! As soon as I saw her design, I knew I wanted to sew some of the wrapped lollies using Candice’s beautiful…
The time has come to wrap up our quilt along for the Forest Family Quilt! I wanted to thank everyone who has played along for this round, and shared their progress photos on Instagram and via email. It’s been so wonderful to see the stunning quilts and blocks that you have all produced! It really gives me such a buzz…
Last week I added a new sewing pattern to my range; the Easter Dilly Bag. It was designed earlier in the year for the Tilda Club and it’s just been made available for release. It’s such a pretty and sweet project and I love it dearly. But it’s hardly suitable for the festive season! So I decided it was perfect…
It’s the final week of the Forest Family Quilt Along and we’re putting on the finishing touch – the quilt binding. I have to confess that I really enjoy this very last step. And I really look forward to sitting down to hand stitch the binding in place. But I do love a good slow stitching session! Have you been…
Quilt binding is something that I do for so many of my projects and something that I get asked about a lot. So I thought it was about time that I created a simple tutorial illustrating how I bind my quilty projects with double fold binding that is machine stitched to the front of the quilt and hand stitched on…
Welcome! It’s Week 7 of the Forest Family Quilt Along! If you’re new here, head to the Quilt Along Welcome post to find all of the content for the previous weeks. You can purchase the PDF pattern and find links to paper pattern stockists too. This week we’re assembling the quilt sandwich and quilting our project. I’m so excited to see everyone’s versions. Here’s…
Hello! It’s lovely that you could join us for Week 6 of the Forest Family Quilt Along. Have you been sewing along? Head to the Quilt Along Welcome post to find content for the previous weeks. You can purchase the PDF pattern and find links to paper pattern stockists too. This week we’re assembling the quilt top. There are nine face blocks to sew…
Welcome to the book tour for Helen Philipps’ new book ‘Home Sweet Home Sewing’*. Helen has produced a beautiful array of crafty books throughout her career, but this is the first with Tuva Publishing (who also published my own book*). I was so honoured when Helen invited me to join the book tour and also grateful to the publishers for…
Welcome Welcome to Week 5 of the Forest Family Quilt Along! If you have missed any of the previous content, head to the Quilt Along Welcome post. You can purchase the PDF pattern and find links to paper pattern stockists too. In the last two weeks we have sewn the first six blocks of the quilt, which form row one and two. Here’s…
I’m so thrilled that you’re joining us for Week 4 of the Forest Family Quilt Along! If you have missed any of the previous content, head to the Quilt Along Welcome post. You can sign up for the emails there, purchase the PDF pattern, and find links to paper pattern stockists too. Last week we started assembling our blocks. The main focus was to appliqué…