Welcome to a new Petit Four tutorial: my finishing instructions for the Sailing By Sampler quilt. As before, the tutorial is for those of...

I am so happy to be to introducing a new series of Petit Four blocks to you, inspired by wonderful memories of seaside holidays. When I...

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...

At the darkest time of the year, it's lovely to stay warm and cosy inside making a quilt that looks forward to bright spring days ahead....

This morning I put the last few stitches in the binding of my Wintersweet quilt...just in the (saint) nick of time. You might remember...

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

EDIT: You can now buy this pattern, renamed Jardiniere, as a PDF Pattern here  or as a Paper Pattern here . You may already know how...

There's always so much to do before Christmas but I'm still temped to add just one more project and come November I can't resist starting...

*Congratulations to our two lovely winners: subscriber Emilie and Instagram follower Elise* To celebrate the Spellbound Sampler Book now...

If you didn't catch Part One of the tutorial - which has the pattern for piecing your top - you can find it here. This time I'll be...

This is the first in a new series of posts that explores the easiest way to make a quilt truly your own: your choice of fabric. There may...

Do you ever see fabric and think ‘I really must make something with that’? Silly question, you’re quilters, so of course you do. Well, a...

A very warm ‘welcome aboard’ if you’re joining me from the Moda Bakeshop , I hope you’re enjoying this month’s Building Blocks series and...

Has it really been two weeks since we packed up, reloaded the car and headed home from the Festival of Quilts? Having shared some really...

My bags are packed and I’m off to Birmingham for the Festival of Quilts. So come and say hello on stand C7 (same spot as last year) and...

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...

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...

EDIT: You can now buy the Sprig quilt & Posy cushion as PDFs here or as Paper Patterns here. The lovely people at Today’s Quilter have...

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,...

Moonlit Bat No Gothic garden would be complete without a resident Bat, circling through the darkening trees at dusk before retreating to...

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,...

Merveille du Jour When I started drafting a bat block for the Spellbound Sampler - we’ll be meeting him next week - I realised what...

Toadstools Beloved of childrens’ book authors, the Toadstool has long been imagined as the home of various pixies, fairies and elves. The...