With Christmas on the horizon and a new Block of the Month programme underway, I wanted to give you a proper introduction to our 2021 quilt, the Twelve Days of Christmas. In my first post I introduced the flock of birds at the centre of the quilt, in post two we met the merrymaking lords and ladies from the quilt's border and this time I have a new Petit FOUR tutorial for your delectation: the Piece of Cake Placemat, so named because of its simple self-binding construction. T

Welcome to part two of my introduction to all of the wonderful characters in the Twelve Days of Christmas sampler quilt. In my last post we met the fantastical flock of birds at the centre of the quilt. This time we'll take a turn around the quilt's border with the galivanting lords and ladies and I'll be sharing a quick tailoring tutorial with you at the end of the post. The border was inspired by a beautiful Australian coverlet in the collection at Ayers House Museum in Ade

With Christmas on the horizon and a new Block of the Month programme underway, I wanted to give you a proper introduction to our 2021 quilt, the Twelve Days of Christmas. This past year Andrea and I have been posting parcels of glorious Tilda fabrics to our Block of the Month participants and celebrating all of the gifts in that whimsical Christmas song. As there are twelve blocks - of course - this is the biggest quilt we've made thus far, so I'm going to devote two posts to