The Christmas Collection...

Have you given yourself permission to slip a modest packet of mince pies into your weekly shop yet? Honestly, you need the sustenance because prepping for Christmas can be a lot of work.

I'm hoping to make shopping for quilty friends (or yourself!) a smidge easier this year with a lovely new Christmas Collection in the shop which will be opening it's virtual doors on Monday morning. If I could hand you a mince pie and a dry sherry as you browse, you know I would...

If you love to make Christmas quilts at Christmas - I really do and am happy to extend the joy well into the New Year - then the lovely Richla at Got Kwilts has the perfect project: my Dalarna quilt in a carefully curated selection from Tilda's Hometown collection.

The Dalarna pattern is available in Paper or as a PDF.

And wouldn't that same collection make a wonderful Wintersweet quilt? You can find the PDF Pattern in my Free Pattern Library, and rustle up a matching cushion using this festive tutorial.

...Mince pies have been on sale in our local supermarket since the beginning of October and I've made a herculean effort to resist them until after Bonfire Night, which was last weekend. Heck, I hope they haven't sold out...

Nicola xx