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Are all strip cuts the same?
I love Tim Holtz's nostalgic steampunk designs for scrapbooking and papercrafts materials (he has a rather cool website too) so when I spotted his quilt fabrics, I had to add some to my stash. First I...
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Sashiko and applique in Dunfermline
Saturday was fun with Busy Bees in Dunfermline, where we combined sashiko with needleturn applique to make these lovely panels. Having a choice between applique or reverse applique means we could use...
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Time and Time Again on Orkney
I visited the Creative Patchwork and Quilting group on Orkney last week and had fun with them creating many more new versions of both Time and Again and Irori, since the two quilts share the same...
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The next sashiko course at Edinburgh Patchwork
I have only three places left for the next sashiko course at Edinburgh Patchwork, which starts on Saturday 8th October. Please contact me if you are interested in booking a place. Edinburgh...
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Sashiko course to run in Perth
I am going to run the Yuza and Shonai Sashiko course at The Peacock and the Tortoise in Perth from mid February 2017. The classes will run from 10.30 to 4.30 on Thursdays and there will be eight...
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Sidmouth revisited - progress
I have been pushing ahead with Sidmouth Revisited recently, as I need to get it finished now so it can appear in Today's Quilter's Christmas issue. The photo above shows me tracing the feather circle...
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Around Orkney - colours
Here are a few more photos from my trip to Orkney almost a month ago. The stone at the top is one of the Stones of Stenness- a very interesting shape. Orkney was full of beautiful colours and...
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Time and Again on Orkney - quilts progress
I have had these photos for about a week but haven't got around to posting them until now, so the quilts came along much quicker than the date on my blog post suggests. The one at the top is Barbara...
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Sunday downpour at No.1
We had rain like monsoon this afternoon. Like in January and again a few weeks ago while I was teaching, the drains couldn't cope and the drive started to flood. On 25th June after my class in...
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September quilt shows
https://www.facebook.com/grosvenor/posts/478615789003991 A heads up re the venues for the Great Northern Quilt Show and the Scottish Quilt Championships. The GNQS will be in the new hall at the...
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Today's Quilter Sashiko Special supplement
The next issue of Today's Quilter magazine will feature a sashiko special with my designs, and they will be displaying my sampler from 'The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook' on their stand at Festival of...
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Today's Quilter sashiko special supplement - sneak peek!
I've had a look at the pdf files for the sashiko supplement, due out on August 18th, and it is looking really good. There are three complete projects - Koi scroll, Marumon (framed below) and Ranru....
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This weekend's projects
Sidmouth Revisited has been an ongoing project for a while now. Tacking a quilt as big as this is a problem at the moment, because right now there is nowhere in the house where I can put up the 109in...
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A splendid sashiko sampler
Here is Ray McLaughlin's sashiko sampler, which she has recently completed after coming to my sashiko course at Kaleidoscope. She has made a beautiful arrangement of the sashiko blocks and complemented...
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Not at Festival of Quilts this year
I'm not at Festival of Quilts this year because I'm helping my mum look after dad, who has secondary prostate cancer now. He has been in and out of hospital since May and also had a couple of weeks at...
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon
And flitted away as far as they couldfrom the castle that layEast of the Sun and West of the Moon This is my illustration of one of the last scenes from the Norwegian folk tale 'East of the Sun and...
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Quilting Sidmouth Revisited
I am hand quilting Sidmouth Revisited at the moment. A big job - it is 96in square. The photo above was taken several days ago. Although I've taken inspiration from the original quilt for the...
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A knot garden, not a mandala
We have had a lot of people coming and going at my parents' home over the last few weeks - carers, doctors, nurses - and a lot of them have been drawn to my the abstract embroidered panel hanging up in...
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V & A checkerboard quilt top
Mary Jenkins (author of the Little Welsh Quilts blog) posted on Facebook about the original checkerboard quilt in the V & A's collection, which is featured in this video of author Tracey Chevalier...
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Sidmouth Revisited - feather wreath
I finished hand quilting the feather wreath and the central rosette on Sidmouth Revisited yesterday. If I have time, I will add another line half an inch inside the feather wreath. When I get the...
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