Category Archives: Patterns & Makes

cut&alter Christmas 18 QAL :: Week 5 – Block 4

Welcome to Week 5 of the Christmas 18 QAL and here is Block 4 …. Block 4 of the cut&alter Christmas 18 QAL is released today and, if you have signed up, will be in your inbox shortly. This week’s block takes the half square triangles (HSTs) we have been perfecting over the first 3…

cut&alter Christmas 18 QAL  ::  Week 1 and we’re off!

Thank you and welcome to the people who have bought my Christmas 18 pattern and are joining in with the QAL. This week we are starting off with Introductions and a Full Cutting List, should you wish to cut it all out in advance.  If you have sourced fabric to the requirements or bought the…

N.S.F.W. – No Sewing For Weeks (Tales of a Part time Quilter) – Take me home, Country road!

Hey all I recently went on a half-day course teaching Free Motion Machine Embroidery. Although I have been using sewing machines for at least 25 years (probably more like 30!) I have never used it for anything other than sewing. I recently tried free motion quilting and didn’t totally suck, so when the opportunity to…