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Social Bite Village Quilt Drive 2024
Time for an update on donated quilts for the Social Bite Village Quilt Drive. This is actually the first one I’ve posted since December 2022! I took a lot of quilts at the end of 2022 as I knew my impending building work and house upheaval would mean I wouldn’t have space to store quilts …
Three Spring Cushions and their Template Packs
Back in the summer of 2021 I launched a series of block designs in collaboration with Crafter’s Companion. I wrote all about it here. These were packs of die sets that worked with their Gemini die cutting machines. Since then we have been planning a further collaboration to produce template sets for applique designs. It’s …
Supernova Stardust Quilt and other new Academy 2024/25 samples
Today we launched the second year of our Thread House Academy. The first year has been a wonderful experience for both students and us! And now we have a whole new programme of classes planned for 2024/25. I thought I would share my classes here. We have three themed terms and the first is ‘curves’. …
The Dream Birds Are Here!
The Dream Bird patterns have finally flown into view and can now be purchased as PDFs from my website here! Four years ago I launched my first PDF patterns with my first 4 bird applique patterns. Somehow these real life birds have now evolved into imaginary ‘dream birds’! I first started creating these back in September …
Temperature Quilts for 2024 and a Moxie upgrade!
I have temperature quilt projects to share and exciting news about the new Moxie XL! Regular readers will know all about my passion for Temperature Projects. You can read about my original Weather Bubble quilt here and since then I’ve completed a temperature embroidery and started (and then aborted!) a temperature crochet blanket. I’ve started …
The Hills Are Alive and Quilts of 2023
It’s that odd time of year between Christmas and New Year when time seems to be more elastic and when I traditionally post a review of all the quilts I’ve made in the last 12 months. Every year my quilt total gets less and less! In many ways I think this is a good thing. …
A year of Fabric Books
Sometime between Christmas and New Year 2022 I was trying to think of an idea for us to teach at our Thread House Retreats. We were focusing on hand sewing and slow stitching with a number of different techniques and I came up with the solution of making a fabric book with all our sample …
Christmas Reindeer Sew Along Part 3
Yes I know this is all supposed to be about reindeers but how amazing is this dragon version of the patchwork pony pattern?! It is by Jean Borth who shared it in the Facebook Sew Along group. I am constantly surprised and delighted by what you guys do with this pattern, always coming up with …
Christmas Reindeer Sew Along Part 2
It’s time for part 2 of the Christmas Reindeer Sew Along and now we have made our outer panels it’s time to add our ears before sewing the gusset and finishing the pony body. When I decided to make the pony into a reindeer I originally thought that it would just involve the addition of …
Christmas Reindeer Sew Along Part 1
Welcome to part 1 of the Christmas reindeer Sew Along! The Antler Addendum is now ready for you to download. Just click here to go to the page on my website and click on the download link. From now on all purchases of the patchwork pony pattern will come with the antler addendum as standard. …