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The Spring Quilt Festival at Edinburgh next weekend
I'll be at the Spring Quilt Festival in Edinburgh at the weekend or, more accurately, my fabrics will be. It clashes with the City and Guilds Diploma I'm doing with Gillian Cooper, so on Saturday and...
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Spring Quilt Festival last weekend
Forgot my camera this weekend, so thanks to Fiona for these photos - and all her help on the stand too. We had a lot of fun!
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Quilters' Guild area day (afternoon!) in Perth next Saturday
Asanoha (hemp leaf) is one of the most famous sashiko patterns and one of my favourites to stitch. I'm doing one of the 'four corners' stitch demos at the area day afternoon next Saturday, so there...
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Fabrics coming soon
Here is a small selection of some gorgeous kimono and haori fabrics that will be arriving soon, hopefully in time for World Textile Day at Llandidloes on 19th March - fingers crossed!I love landscape...
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Time and Again available digitally
My 'Time and Again' pattern is now uploaded to patternspot.com and can be bought as a digital download.
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A sashiko weekend
I've demoed how to mark and stitch asanoha (hemp leaf) pattern in sashiko five times in the last day and a half! First as one of the 'four corners' at the Quilters' Guild area day afternoon in Perth...
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King of Hearts - aka Highland Fling...
My 'King of Hearts' quilt is on the cover of Today's Quilter magazine. I'm not sure why, but they've called it 'Highland Fling' in the mag - maybe an allusion to where I live, although I'm not in the...
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A Chinese Textile Adventure in The Quilter magazine
The Quilter, the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles quarterly members' magazine, is featuring this article in the Spring issue, about the amazing trip to China I had in July 2015. The editor, Anne...
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Sashiko and The Quilting Show at the SECC
The sashiko course groups I'm running at Kaleidoscope and Edinburgh Patchwork had their sixth day session on Thursday and Saturday, where we did more hitomezashi (one stitch sashiko). The patterns...
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2016 - 2017 Edinburgh Patchwork Sashiko course dates
We have just two more sessions to go for the sashiko course that has been running at Edinburgh Patchwork since the autumn and we have lots of lovely sashiko samples for our students to put together...
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World Textile Day Wales is next weekend
Our first World Textile Day of 2016 is at Llanidloes on Saturday and here are some of the new vintage fabrics we have got for you...
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Super Strips from Today's Quilter pattern
Sue Jennings, one of the UK Quilters United group on Facebook, sent me this photo of her narrow strip version of Super Strips today. She contacted me a few days ago, asking if it would work to make...
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World Textile Day at Llanidloes
Here are some of Bob's photos from World Textile Day on Saturday. After a quiet morning, the event got really busy in the afternoon. Welsh Heritage Quilters did the refreshments - that was busy too....
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Another 1:12 scale project
Another member of one the dolls house groups on Facebook listed this Honeychurch house for sale a few weeks ago. I already have two other Honeychurch houses, both shops, and they are very well made...
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World Textile Day at Llanidloes
Here are some of Bob's photos from World Textile Day on Saturday. After a quiet morning, the event got really busy in the afternoon. Welsh Heritage Quilters did the refreshments - that was busy too....
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Sidmouth Revisited - progress
I had to put my Sidmouth Revisited project away for a few months, as I had got stuck on some of the maths! Trying to figure out the correct sizes for the next frame after the second hourglass X-block...
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Simple Sashiko
Well, it looks like this book is out - published over a month ago. Somehow I haven't heard anything more about it since I checked the final proofs. I haven't had a complimentary copy so I had no...
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Chiyogami inspirations
Shortly after coming back to the UK after my year teaching English in Japan, I designed several needlepoint patterns inspired by various Japanese designs, including this chair, which was based on a...
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Super Strips in Spring Colours
Sue Jennings sent me some photos of her Super Strips quilt now it is quilted. She showed me the top a couple of weeks ago, which she made from my pattern in Today's Quilter magazine. She wrote -...
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