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What's your favourite thing to spot on a woodland walk? I have to say I love mushrooms. Not on my plate, mind you, but I love spotting them in the ...

  Have you ever looked at the tiles in a kitchen or bathroom in someone else's house and thought "that would make a great quilt pattern"? I know I ...

Holiday Spirit is the newest Penny Spool Quilts Christmas pattern, and available in the pattern shop here. This is a fun pattern to put together, a...

Meet your next modern Christmas quilt project. The Holiday Spirit quilt pattern is Fat Quarter and Fat Eighth friendly and is perfect for a bundle...

Is there a new baby in the (extended) family or your circle of close friends? Or do you make charity quilts for young families? I have the perfect ...

The air is getting a definite crispness to it, a few leaves are starting to turn colour, and school is about to start up again. What better way to ...

I recently wrote about the scrappiest scrappy quilt I've ever made, that I had nicknamed the Confetti Quilt, and then turned into three mini charit...

When was the last time you went to the circus? Switzerland had a number of travelling circuses when I was growing up, so we went almost every year ...

Welcome back to the HST tutorial series! In this last half-square triangle tutorial, we're going to look at how to make HSTs eight at a time.  This...

I can't believe I have "spool" in my business name but have never designed a spool quilt block yet. It's high time to remedy that! Thanks to Quilt ...

Welcome to the second instalment of my half-square triangle tutorial series. In this tutorial I am going to show you a time-saving method for makin...

Half-square triangles, affectionately known as HSTs, are one of the main building blocks of quilt patterns. They show up everywhere from traditiona...