Nicola
Summer in the Garden...
A warm welcome if you are joining me from the marvellous Moda Bakeshop, it's lovely to be sewing with you again this summer. This year...
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Nicola
- Aug 23, 2021
Welcome to Primrose Hill...
Take a stroll with me on a bright spring morning: the birds are singing, the sun is shining and a gentle breeze carries a flutter of...
Nicola
- Aug 20, 2021
The Jardin de Lavande Sampler Finishing Tutorial
Welcome to a new Petit Four tutorial: finishing instructions for the Jardin de Lavande Sampler quilt. As before, the finishing tutorial...
Nicola
- Aug 16, 2021
Twelve Days of Christmas block of the month: reservations are open...
...or should that be unwrapped? My dear friend Andrea from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company and I hope you will join us for our wonderful...
Nicola
- Aug 5, 2021
From my Sketchbook: Back to School
EDIT: You can now buy this pattern - renamed Kindergarten - as a PDF here or as a Paper Pattern here. You may have noticed my *cough*...
Nicola
- Aug 3, 2021
Festival of Quilts 2021
Well, it was so good to be back at the NEC! Although I'd forgotten - as you do - quite how much work it is to up sticks and open my...
Nicola
- Jul 10, 2021
An extract from my July Newsletter...
We have just returned home from a holiday in our beloved Cornwall: I've relaxed, read a good book (Tracy Chevalier's A Single Thread),...
Nicola
- Jul 9, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: the lavender fields
Over the past few weeks I've been introducing you to my new Jardin de Lavande blocks - prior to their release in July - and taking you on...
Nicola
- Jul 8, 2021
From my Sketchbook: Ocean Paradise
EDIT: You can now buy this pattern as a PDF here or as a Paper Pattern here. All things come to those who wait...even quilt blocks. My...
Nicola
- Jul 2, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: block nine
Over the past few weeks I've been introducing you to my new Jardin de Lavande blocks - prior to their release in July - and taking you on...
Nicola
- Jun 25, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: block eight
Over the past few weeks I've been introducing you to my new Jardin de Lavande blocks - prior to their release in July - and taking you on...
Nicola
- Jun 24, 2021
Happy Midsummer!
Today is Midsummer's Day and I'm very happy to be able to share my latest Pattern Book with you: the Midsummer Sampler. The Midsummer...
Nicola
- Jun 17, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: block seven
Over the past few weeks I've been introducing you to my new Jardin de Lavande blocks - prior to their release in July - and taking you on...
Nicola
- Jun 11, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: block six
Over the next few weeks I'll be introducing you to my new Jardin de Lavande blocks - prior to their release in July - and taking you on a...
Nicola
- Jun 8, 2021
From my sketchbook: Bring Me Sunshine
I have a unashamedly cheerful quilt to share with you today. The block is based on one of the flower basket blocks popular in the 1930s...
Nicola
- Jun 2, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: block five
Over the next few weeks I'll be introducing you to my new Jardin de Lavande blocks - prior to their release in July - and taking you on a...
Nicola
- May 27, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: blocks three and four
Over the next few weeks I'll be introducing you to my new Jardin de Lavande blocks - prior to their release in July - and taking you on a...
Nicola
- May 20, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: block two
Over the next few weeks I'll be introducing you to my new Jardin de Lavande blocks prior to their release in July and taking you on a...
Nicola
- May 17, 2021
Introducing the CakeSlice Template...
My first proper blog post - back in 2015 - was a tutorial for the Triangle-in-a-Square block. That block has become a firm favourite of...
Nicola
- May 14, 2021
Jardin de Lavande sampler: block one
Over the next eight weeks I'll be introducing my new Petit-Four sampler patterns - the Jardin de Lavande blocks - prior to their release...
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