A step by step tutorial to assist in the making of the Jelly & Cake box pouch project – the pattern is available for sale here. For those of you who do better visually when making, follow this along with... Continue reading

A step by step tutorial to assist in the making of the Toolbox Trumpery project – the pattern is available for sale here. For those of you who do better visually when making, follow this along with the instructions in... Continue reading

It’s that time of year again – October - Breast cancer month. Now it’s not that we should only be aware in October but it is a great way to remind yourself that it is important to CHECK THOSE BOOBS!... Continue reading

I'm proud to be a part of the third annual Sew Pink blog hop run by ByAnnie – to focus on Breast cancer for the month of October. Although its important every day of the year, I've taken part in... Continue reading

Time for a little maths lesson. Do you love English paper piecing but ready to move on from just hexies.. We have lots of die cut EPP Iron-on shapes being added to our inventory with our next order coming soon.... Continue reading

I'm again participating in the ByAnnie #sewpink campaign for the October Breast cancer awareness month. Although I have so far escaped the 1 in 7 statistic, many of my friends have not and I have watched them battle and fight... Continue reading

I use bias vines and stems so often in my projects and love that there are many ways you can make them very easily and accurately. However, I'm also aware from the oohs and ahhs at workshops and in classes... Continue reading

I’ve done a quick photo tutorial whilst making up a second test prototype of my Le fer Tote bag as written instructions can be tricky for some parts of this bag and we have found people struggle with the lining... Continue reading

Do you often end up with wavy borders on your quilt? Is your quilt often not square? Here’s some hints and tips to get a perfectly flat border and quilt top - which your longarm quilter will love you for.... Continue reading

So Terry Atkinson and Gudrun Erla put the call out to us to show our ‘real studios’- not perfectly cleaned, beautifully presented, out of a magazine images, but instant as they are now.. I considered that I really can’t show... Continue reading

Yesterday saw our final event for the year (well maybe we’ll squeeze one more in online) Our annual Christmas gathering – a time to celebrate, share, inspire, stitch, learn new things and enjoy beautiful friendships and company. The tables were... Continue reading

I was honoured to offer to contribute to ByAnnies #sewpink initiative to support Breast Cancer worldwide. As someone who has known and continues to support many close to me fighting this dreadful disease it is something dear to all of... Continue reading

You may have seen our recent High Tea Stitch for Sisters event? Jo and I were very honoured to pull this event together in two short weeks and have over 75 ladies attend, stitch, share, laugh, cry and make a... Continue reading

How lucky was I to get advance yardage of the beautiful new Tilda fabric line – Plum Garden? Because Jo could not contain herself when the rep showed us these lines we actually ordered the full line PLUS the accompanying... Continue reading

The wonderful team at Aurifil this month have jotted their thoughts on why stitching is their therapy! Erin, creative director, Karen, master educator, Kate – Chicago office and Hilary, social media coordinator- have all spoken about their quilting journey and... Continue reading

My guest blogger this month is the lovely Bev McCullough who blogs over at Flamingo Toes. She offered to write a post on what quilting and crafting means to her and how much of a profound change in her life... Continue reading