Next week is the final week in our Make Time British Sew-along. Forgive me for posting a few days early - we're off to the Lake District for a few days - but before I share our tips for assembling the quilt, let me remind you of our autumn sewing schedule: - 18th August - Make Time block with Jo Westfoot - explore foundation paper piecing. 25th August - Tulips, Clouds, Let's Chat, Get Snippy and Book Club blocks with Lou Orth - explore curved piecing, snowball corners

Welcome to week seven of the Make Time British Sew-along. Before I show you a fun variation of the A Good Yarn block, let me remind you...

Welcome to week six of the Make Time British Sew-along. Before I introduce you to my blocks, let me remind you of our autumn sewing...

Welcome to the last month of our Vintage Circus sewalong! Before we wave you goodbye, Richla, from Got Kwilts, and I are sharing our...

Welcome to month four of the Vintage Circus sewalong! Richla, from Got Kwilts, and I are putting our hands together for the final pair of...

Welcome to month three of the Vintage Circus sewalong! This month Richla, from Got Kwilts, and I are welcoming you into the BIG Top......

Welcome to month two of the Vintage Circus sewalong! Richla, from Got Kwilts, and I are topping up our popcorn before we tackle this...

Welcome to the Vintage Circus sewalong! Richla, from Got Kwilts, and I are looking forward to your company for the next five months as we...

EDIT: The Dawn Chorus blocks - along with the Chorus Line bonus project - are now available as a printed pattern booklet here. Welcome to...

Welcome to week one of the British Sew-a-row. Before I introduce you to my row, Raining Cats & Dogs , let me remind you of our summer sewing schedule: 16th May - Raining Cats and Dogs with...me - Machine Piecing and Dresden Blocks 30th May - Conversation Starter with Lou Orth - Foundation Paper Piecing 13th June - Royal Row with Yasmeen K Branton - Needle turn hand applique 27th June - Afternoon Tea with Jo Westfoot - Foundation Paper Piecing 11th July - London, Ba

This is the second year that the Moda Bakeshop have hosted their wonderful Quilter's Summer Camp and this year we're at the beach. Since June the Bakeshop Chefs have been sharing their beautiful blocks along with their favourite seaside memories. Today is my turn and where else would I whisk you off to but Cornwall? Photos from our trip to St. Ives earlier this month... My block is based on that perennial British favourite: the Beach Hut. The place where we wriggle into

I’m blaming Trish. You see, just before Christmas I shared a tutorial for a Dala Horse block on the Moda Bakeshop, as part of their...

This seems slightly self-indulgent of me but, two and a half years and seventy-odd posts in, I was interested in finding out which topics...

Have you been opening the Moda Bakeshop Advent Calendar this year? My fellow Chefs and I have been rustling up some Christmas treats for...

It's the final week of our summer sew-along and for those of you looking for the border and finishing instructions, you can find them...

Cobweb The Garden Spider builds her delicate web - often over twelve inches in diameter - every single day and although we may be squeamish about it’s builder, no one can deny the beauty of her work. You can find the block here . EDIT: Although the sew-along has finished, you can still use the weekly posts as a guide and sew with a group of friends. You can find the Spellbound Sampler pattern book here and on Amazon, or the PDF Pattern Bundle here . CUTTING... Follow step

Wise Owl Is there anything quite as eerily atmospheric as the call of an owl? But the t’wit t’woo of the Tawny is, in fact, a duet...

The Raven The subject of Edgar Allen Poe’s Gothic poem and revered, often feared, in folklore, the Raven is one of our most intelligent, long-lived and loyal birds, mating for life. Young Ravens leave their parents in Autumn to find new territory and a mate of their own. Our abandoned garden will be perfect. This week we will be using a new technique: bias strip applique, which is a simple and effective way of adding fine detail to our blocks. In this case, the Raven's leg

Moonlit Bat No Gothic garden would be complete without a resident Bat, circling through the darkening trees at dusk before retreating to the Gatehouse attic to wait out the winter. You can find the block here . We will be using techniques that we've explored in previous blocks - snowballed corners , dresden fans and simple embroidery - but this block does differ in one respect: it's constructed asymmetrically to accommodate the wings, so some of the units will look slight

Never was a workshop so poorly named. It was a gloriously sunny day when I taught a group of lovely friends from my local quilting group,...