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Colour Stories: spring...
I've been playing with my favourite colouring set again - Tilda Fabric's Creating Memories collection - and as I mentioned in previous...
Nicola
Feb 24

Your Favourite Quilt Patterns
Believe it or not - and I'm having trouble, to be honest - CakeStand Quilts will be ten this summer. It's been so interesting to dip into...
Nicola
Jan 2

Colour Stories: winter...
Happy New Quilting Year! I hope your Christmas celebrations were everything you hoped for and that you managed to successfully hide from...
Nicola
Jan 1


A Christmas Quilt Parade!
December is here and it's time, at last, to reacquaint myself with friends old and new: my Christmas quilts! I have * ahem * one or two,...
Nicola
Dec 5, 2024

Colour Stories: autumn...
Do you remember the thrill of opening a new set of colouring pencils when you were little? All those pristine, freshly sharpened pencils...
Nicola
Oct 18, 2024


Spring Cottage block of the month: reservations are open!
My lovely friend Andrea from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company and I cordially invite you to join us as we don our Easter bonnets and...
Nicola
Sep 2, 2024


Postcard from the Lake District
I know this is a quilting blog, but... would you like to see my holiday photos? You would? Well, that's a relief because we're home from...
Nicola
Jul 2, 2024


Northern Lights BOM update...
We've reached the halfway point in our expedition to the Arctic Circle, the Northern Lights block of the month programme. Here are a few...
Nicola
May 16, 2024


Introducing the Spring Cottage block of the month...
I cordially invite you to join me and my lovely friend Andrea from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company as we don our Easter bonnets and best...
Nicola
May 2, 2024


Celebrating Tilda Fabrics
Tilda Fabric's new collection, Jubilee, is released tomorrow and while every Tilda release is exciting, this one is a little bit special...
Nicola
Jan 31, 2024


Small Wins (an extract from my January newsletter)
This is traditionally the time for making resolutions, but resolutions are rather hard to keep in January (I've always wondered why...
Nicola
Jan 11, 2024


Christmas Gifting
My recent exploration of the Christmas quilt cupboard - always a lovely way to spend a chilly Sunday afternoon - yielded a flurry of...
Nicola
Nov 22, 2023


Introducing Northern Lights...
Join me and my fearless travelling companion Andrea from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company as we prepare for our latest block of the month...
Nicola
Oct 9, 2023


Festival of Quilts 2023
A rather different Festival for me this year as I'd given myself the year off and was really looking forward to being a customer. And I...
Nicola
Aug 7, 2023

The British Sew-a-Row 2023
Last spring I teamed up with four amazing British quilt designers - my pandemic zoom-buddies - to create a special quilt for the late...
Nicola
Apr 12, 2023


Block of the Month update...
We've reached the halfway point in our wonderful, whistlestop tour of London Town, so it must be time to share a few snapshots of our...
Nicola
Mar 15, 2023


Festival of Quilts 2022
This time last week Mark and I were loading the car in readiness to travel to the NEC to set up for the Festival of Quilts. No matter how...
Nicola
Aug 24, 2022


A festive Festival of Quilts
Those of you who subscribe to my newsletter will know that I've planned something a bit different for this year's Festival of Quilts,...
Nicola
Aug 12, 2022


Roll up, roll up!
For the past few years I’ve joined my fellow Moda Bakeshop chefs for a summer sewalong and this year we have something a little bit...
Nicola
Jun 27, 2022

Introducing London Town...
Join me and my lovely (anglophile) friend Andrea from the Willow Cottage Quilt Company as we excitedly wave the flag for our new Block of...
Nicola
Jun 1, 2022
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