Hello, Jane here. I’ve just heard from Pam Lintott, co-author of Jelly Roll Quilts (if you're in the US find the book here) and founder of The Quilt Room, that she and her daughter Nicky have started a new blog from their website. As you would expect from The Quilt Room team, it has lots of great news about new fabric collections and neat ideas. They also have an online shop, which is stuffed with the latest goodies and very efficient in getting orders out quickly, in my experience.

Pam and Nicky launched their book at the International Quilt Market in Portland last month. Have a look at their Portland Quilt Market photo gallery to see them with some of their favourite designers, such as Heather Bailey, whose fabric features in one of the quilts in their book. Fellow author Mandy Shaw (Quilt Yourself Gorgeous due out in July) also appears in some of the photos, as do I (gulp!). We had a great time at Market, and afterwards I was lucky enough to carry on with a bit of a quilting odyssey. I made it as far as Sisters, about 150 miles south east of Portland, where Jean and Valori Wells beautiful shop, The Stitchin’ Post is located. They will be holding their annual open air quilt show this weekend, so if you are in the vicinity please go and take some photographs and then upload them to MyCraftivity so that the rest of us can imagine we were there too!

Thank you!

Jane