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Welcome to my website. I’m Amy and I spend my days creating modern patterns and sew alongs for quilt and English paper piecing lovers.

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Day 18 of #greatbritishquilter with @sarahashfordstudio and @charmaboutyou is favourite quilt pattern...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Is it OK to say one of my own designs?! Being brutally honest, I have fallen in and out of love with this design (still unnamed!). I loved it when I first draw up the idea, I loved it even more when I worked out the fabrics I would use. But then the instructions were hard work to write so the love started to fade. And then I lost my sewjo generally whilst making the quilt top and lost all love for it. It got put to the side for a long time (in fact it was tester by some of my lovely testers this time last year!) but a couple of months ago I got it out again to crack on and get it finished and I love it again. I'm hoping to get the pattern into a magazine so watch this space!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ • ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #greatbritishquilter #coffeeringsstudio #quiltdesigner #quiltdesign #quiltpattern #sewingpattern #modernquilt #modernquilter #modernsewing #makemodern #iquilt #isew #fabriclove #halfsquaretriangles #halfrectangletriangles

It's all about your favourite marking tool over on #greatbritishquilter with @sarahashfordstudio and @charmaboutyou.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I'm a huge @clovermfg Hera marker fan. I use it to mark quilting lines on large and small projects, machine quilting and hand quilting. It comes in two sizes and I have both! I do still use fabric pens and chalk pencils but I only really like to use those on the back of my work...just in case they don't come out.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #greatbritishquilter #coffeeringsstudio #fabricmarker #heramarker #quiltingtips #iquilt #isew #quiltersofinstagram #quilter #modernquilter #modernquilting

Tea and treat day on #greatbritishquilter with @sarahashfordstudio and @charmaboutyou. Of course in this house it’s always coffee and treat...I mean...it’s in the name isn’t it!!! I like a variety of coffees; cappuccinos, espressos, long americanos with milk...but always what I would call “proper” coffee, no instant allowed! As for the treat, it depends what’s in the house really. And sometimes treats don’t have to be edible...is it weird that I consider rainbow EPP hexies a treat?! • #greatbritishquilter #coffeeringsstudio #isew #iquilt #modernsewing #modernquilting #epp #slowsewing #sewhappy #coffeetime #coffeecoffeecoffee

I’ve been feeling a bit...I don’t know...can you be a combination of inspired and disheartened at the same time?! Hopefully I’m not the only creative person who feels like that on occasions. Anyway I’m shaking it off today! The sun is shining, I’ve got some photos to take for a magazine article and I need to email some Christmas workshop ideas to various places. And I think doing my WI workshop last night helped too; it was fun to teach a new skill to a group. Hopefully some future EPP fans were born last night. I’ve missed a couple of days of #greatbritishquilter with @sarahashfordstudio and @charmaboutyou but today is scrap storage! I try to be ruthless with my scraps otherwise I could keep every last inch of fabric! I have two small boxes that I shove good size scraps in. I don’t often dive back into the scrap boxes but I really should. I might start basting various EPP shapes from random scraps and decide what to do with them later...could be a fun project. • #greatbritishquilter #iquilt #isew #fabric #fabriclove #quiltingfabric #fabricstash #sewingstorage #scraps #fabricscraps #scrappyquilt #epp #englishpaperpiecing #modernsewing #modernquilting #coffeeringsstudio

It's "show us your stash" day on #greatbritishquilter with @sarahashfordstudio and @charmaboutyou. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This is my quilting fabric (I have a whole other stash of dress making fabric upstairs). First photo is my fat quarters stash divided into "collections", by colour (ish!) and a random bits/cheaper fabric box too. The second photo is my larger pieces. • #fabric #fabriclove #quiltingfabric #fabricstash #fatquarters #isew #iquilt #sewingproject #quiltingproject #modernquilter #modernquilting

Day 9 of #greatbritishquilter with @sarahashfordstudio and @charmaboutyou is “fabric you can’t cut up”...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I bought these half metres at festival of quilts last year. They are from the True Colors collection by @tulapink which was released four years ago...four years ago I didn’t buy quilting fabric and had never made a quilt. I’ve always loved owls but never thought I’d be able to get my hands on this print, nevermind in all four colour ways! ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I will use it one day but that day hasn’t come yet! •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #greatbritishquilter #tulapink #tulatroops #fabriclove #quiltingfabric #fabricstash #modernquilting #modernquilter #iquilt #isew #modernsewing #makemodern

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