It’s been a very quiet day around here, mainly because Damo and I both got food poisoning last night The Grasshopper Simple Folk When I did the sketch for Rainy Days and Sun Rays, I did it on my lightpad Rainy days When I designed Big Woods, which is the BOM coming in August with Tula Pink, I fleshed the Happy week peeps, take care and happy stitching Sarah xx

Happy Easter everyone! Sarah

Hi StitchyMites, my sincere apologies for being a day late with our news. The first is 1858 Happy Hands, made in New Windsor, NY by an unknown maker. The pattern isn’t actually formally called Happy Hands, a previous owner nicknamed it that because it but in reality I could go full quilt nerd and talk about them for ages, even with my sore throat :) Happy

In this day and age lots of quilters keep their followers entertained by posting what they're working We all live our lives so much online these days, and so people don't like being told that they can't Right I'm off to Bedfordshire, its an early start and a long day. Happy stitching Sarah x

These little guys are usually very difficult to spot and also not seen usually during the day. I’m also getting the projects finished up so that I can reveal what we will be making each day. I can’t show you too much, but here’s a little sneak peek of the Day 2 project…. I’m pretty happy with it so far. Happy sewing! Sarah x

Annie’s Garden pattern in both PDF and paper formats, available at my website. www.sarahfielke.com Happy

When I finish work for the day, I sit and have a chat to you all. Final edits of the four new BOM books I’m releasing in late January have almost been completed (Rainy Days I love the little squirrel in the top corner, I was particularly happy with his tail. Happy stitching Sarah xx

I feel very lucky and very happy. Of course it wasn't all holiday - I taught in The Netherlands for two days - but usually when I take these trips, I get maybe a week of holiday at the most, taken in grabs of a day or two here and there I hope to visit it one day myself - but as soon as Oss showed me the photos I was completely enchanted So you learn something new every day.

I have three smaller patterns to give away, Peony Picnic, Autumn’s Up and Happy Hedges, all valued at Happy sewing peoples Sarah xx

It’s been a bit of day in my studio.  were other people out there who wanted to make mad, whimsical quilts full of spots and ginghams and happiness I was so happy to find these women, I felt I’d made friends long before I ever met either of them. She wished us every success and hoped our paths would cross one day. And one day, they did. She was in and out of my class all day, peering over everyones shoulders and marvelling at the fun they

Happy Friday everyone! Sarah

The quilt shop was a respite, a slight brain refresh before she had to go and deal with the day to day It was early days in the shop, and one of my first insights into how important a quilt shop (and a quilt Some days my job is a job, but some days it's an absolute privilege.  When I'm happy, I sew. We had a few days in Paris together last year, and we're doing it again in October!