The bias effect can create very interesting elliptical shapes with ease. You can then embellish these with the help of simple stitching, fancy stitching and/or decorative threads.
Learn how easy it is to cut strips of fabric on the bias, with the help of your ruler. The ruler comes with the angle...

This delightful cushion design is created with fused applique. Gail shows the very straightforward method starting with strip piecing.

She has also added some 3D detail for the tail, the ear and the butterfly. In this comprehensive workshop Gail explains how to add the detail and the materials...

Gail shares with us her easy method of inserting a zip. You can do without even having to search out that special sewing machine foot that you know the machine came with!

In this method you can also avoid having to work round the zipper head.

Gail uses a modern nylon zip in this demonstrati...

The Bargello pattern with its mesmerizing optical illusion of graceful movement, waves and curves, has been a firm favourite over the years. Now you can create these delightful quilts from pre-cut jelly rolls.

Karin has put together a collection of different projects, using different colours a...

Valerie shows the contents of this kit designed by Nicola Whayman around a butterfly pattern from Kjersti Smith. The kit comes with strips of fabric, colour graded to resemble earth and sky. The butterflies are applied onto this.

She gives suggestions on the simple sewing and initial quilting,...

The pansy is such a pretty flower and you can create this one with just 5 clamshell ‘petals’.
Jennie shows us two ways of doing this: the first is using interfacing and sewing so that you have turned edges  (as she showed us in her clamshell workshop) and the other is straightforward fused appliq...

Jennie loves to play with design and this is a perfect shape to do that with. She takes you through the ‘how to’ of making your own template (but for the subscribed viewers there are workshop notes that include it) and she turns the design around a hexagon centre, into a cushion decoration; but t...

Paula shares with us this lovely quilt pattern, that is based on the simple 9-patch block and uses clever colour placement to create the woven effect.
She works with 8 different fabrics, plus the background. In this workshop she talks you through the cutting, the sewing sequence, pressing and the...

The Inner City block is created by having light or medium and dark tonal values in your fabrics. And they don't have to be plain to do this.  Nancy guides you through how to make this 3D block using half-hexagons and English Paper Piecing.

Nancy has some great tips on how to cut these shapes f...

Freya, Felicity, Fion and their little dog Fred (who have already been the subject of books with Janet) are the best of friends and now have a delightful house that they can share.  There are sections of the house that you can embellish – such as the rug;  there are curtains on the windows and th...

Another simple design from Sally Ablett using the Water Meadow range of fabrics from Lewis & Irene. Simple squares and rectangles, with some sashing make up this cushion.  Valerie has used a variety of fabrics, since many of them can be fussy cut. You could get away with using a single fabric plu...

Lynne Goldsworthy has designed these cushions to be bound and with an envelope back.

Valerie shows the modern way of creating fast, but accurate, quarter-square triangle units that Lynne has used around the panels. She give you help with the technique of 'squaring up' the units,  and also talk...

Using the fabric she created with Craig Joubert, Valerie first does some double needle quilting, and then shows you how to turn a Fat quarter of fabric, very quickly, into a cushion cover – just a couple of edges to neaten off and then sew up the sides.
This idea is just one of the 28 very clever...