Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing Onward the sailors cry Carry the lad that's born to be King Over the sea to Skye... My...

I wrote this post last September and I hope you'll bear with me reposting it, because it has a happy ending. And we all need a few happy...

Are you taking part in the Instagram Quiltfest? It's been masterminded - and I don't think that's too strong a word - by Amy Ellis of...

I suspect you may not be all that familiar with early landscape drawings, but I love them: the plans and elevations are often...

Are you going? Although I've attended the Festival as a visitor, this year will be my first as an exhibitor and I'm really looking...

I'm quite keen on the cake stand quilt block, you might have noticed ;-) They are one of the large family of basket blocks that started...

My Granny had a box of buttons that I used to absolutely LOVE playing with. For hours. This was back in the olden days, of course, pre...

I have a real soft spot for Homely Joys. I originally drafted the house block to make some Christmas gifts for my nieces. They live in a...

If you've ever been curious about the design process, I hope you'll find this new occasional series interesting. I'm starting with my...

You may remember me piecing some little Christmas trees last year, for my festive version of Homely Joys. My test block has spent the...

The lovely people at the Moda Bakeshop have let me post another tutorial - it's called Stepping Stones, you can find it here - and I...

Sometimes things just don't go to plan do they? So, of course, that must also apply when you're designing a quilt. Most of my designs...

So how on earth do you choose just the right fabric for a project when there are so many - endless - possibilities? If you read my last...

Almost a year has gone by since I opening a teeny, tiny little PayHip shop and sold the first copy of my Jolly Brollies pattern. Well,...

I had always planned to include a couple of blocks from my patterns in my Keep Calm and Carry On quilt. The cakestand block from Vintage...

I finished my Keep Calm And Carry On quilt this morning and I'm a little bit sorry. I've thoroughly enjoyed making every single block,...

Thanks to Storm Imogen and a rather wet and windy weekend in Cornwall I've been whizzing through my Moda Bakeshop Birthday Sew-along ...

I'm slightly overexcited to tell you that I've written a tutorial for the Moda Bakeshop. It's for a quilt that I've called 'Speedwell' -...

Every quilter has their own 'preferred method' of binding a quilt and there are lots (and lots) of really good tutorials available in...

Have you ever joined a sew-a-long? I'm always keen and have sewn along with Flickr and Instagram groups - both photo-sharing sites -...

Have you signed up for our seasonal newsletter? I'll be sending them out four times a year - in February, May, August & November - to...

Christmas trees and country vicarages: a quilt for the festive season...

I won't lie, the triangle in a square block is a bit tricky. Before being sewn into a quilt, the corners of that triangle just don't...

Welcome to CakeStand Quilts, my name is Nicola Dodd and it's lovely to meet you. I became smitten with quilting about five years ago. At...