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Festival of Quilts 2025
Did you go to the Festival of Quilts this year? Having missed it last year I was looking forward to immersing myself in Europe's biggest...

Nicola
Aug 14


British Sew-a-Row 2025: choosing fabrics
In a busy world where our lives are full of work commitments, family responsibilities and the distractions of social media, we're...

Nicola
Aug 6


Double Figures...
CakeStand Quilts celebrated its tenth birthday on June the 1st. Technically it's probably its eleventh, as it took me the best part of a...

Nicola
Jun 2


Colour Stories: summer...
I'm dipping into my favourite colouring set - Tilda Fabric's Creating Memories collection - for one last time. As I mentioned in previous...

Nicola
May 24


Introducing the Nutcracker block of the month...
Every year my friend Andrea - from the Willow Cottage Quilt Co - joins me to create lovingly curated parcels for our warm and supportive...

Nicola
Apr 28


Spring Cottage BOM update...
With Easter just a week away we're halfway through our stay at Spring Cottage , so it's high time I shared what our lovely guests have...

Nicola
Apr 11


Colour Stories: spring...
I've been playing with my favourite colouring set again - Tilda Fabric's Creating Memories collection - and as I mentioned in previous...

Nicola
Feb 24


Your Favourite Quilt Patterns
Believe it or not - and I'm having trouble, to be honest - CakeStand Quilts will be ten this summer. It's been so interesting to dip into...

Nicola
Jan 2


Colour Stories: winter...
Happy New Quilting Year! I hope your Christmas celebrations were everything you hoped for and that you managed to successfully hide from...

Nicola
Jan 1


A Christmas Quilt Parade!
December is here and it's time, at last, to reacquaint myself with friends old and new: my Christmas quilts! I have * ahem * one or two,...

Nicola
Dec 5, 2024


Colour Stories: autumn...
Do you remember the thrill of opening a new set of colouring pencils when you were little? All those pristine, freshly sharpened pencils...

Nicola
Oct 18, 2024


Spring Cottage block of the month: reservations are open!
My lovely friend Andrea from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company and I cordially invite you to join us as we don our Easter bonnets and...

Nicola
Sep 2, 2024


Postcard from the Lake District
I know this is a quilting blog, but... would you like to see my holiday photos? You would? Well, that's a relief because we're home from...

Nicola
Jul 2, 2024


Northern Lights BOM update...
We've reached the halfway point in our expedition to the Arctic Circle , the Northern Lights block of the month programme. Here are a...

Nicola
May 16, 2024


Introducing the Spring Cottage block of the month...
I cordially invite you to join me and my lovely friend Andrea from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company as we don our Easter bonnets and best...

Nicola
May 2, 2024


Celebrating Tilda Fabrics
Tilda Fabric's new collection, Jubilee, is released tomorrow and while every Tilda release is exciting, this one is a little bit special...

Nicola
Jan 31, 2024


Small Wins (an extract from my January newsletter)
This is traditionally the time for making resolutions, but resolutions are rather hard to keep in January (I've always wondered why...

Nicola
Jan 11, 2024


Christmas Gifting
My recent exploration of the Christmas quilt cupboard - always a lovely way to spend a chilly Sunday afternoon - yielded a flurry of...

Nicola
Nov 22, 2023


Introducing Northern Lights...
Join me and my fearless travelling companion Andrea from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company as we prepare for our latest block of the month...

Nicola
Oct 9, 2023


Festival of Quilts 2023
A rather different Festival for me this year as I'd given myself the year off and was really looking forward to being a customer. And I...

Nicola
Aug 7, 2023
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