Happy Monday – it’s new pattern day! The next set of adorable food-themed quilt blocks is now available for purchase. The Frosty Friends pattern includes six ice cream quilt block patterns – three scoops of ice cream, and three on a stick. Whether you call them ice creams, icy poles, popsicles, or any other name… these frozen treats are sure… Read More
The Backsplash Quilt Along
There was such a fantastic community response to the Happy Scrappy QAL, that I just knew we had to have another one ASAP, and this time, we’re using my brand new pattern, Backsplash. This is a very special pattern to me, having kept me somewhat sane in the first two months of quaran-down-solation by giving me something to focus on while navigating… Read More
Backsplash Quilt – The Pattern Testers
Every time I design a quilt pattern, I get so excited to see the quilts that my amazing testers make! These wonderful ladies each make a quilt top to help troubleshoot any hiccups or niggles in the quilt pattern before it gets put out into the world. And the quilts the made for the Backsplash quilt pattern are no exception… Read More
Backsplash Quilt Pattern Release
Today’s the day – the Backsplash quilt pattern is now out! And be sure to read through to the end to find out some important shop and QAL news 😉 Backsplash might look a little familiar… And you’d be correct. I took my favourite part of the Happy Scrappy quilt and repeated it across the quilt like a tile pattern,… Read More
Party Pie Pattern + Kit
Last year, I had great fun designing some exclusive quilt patterns for Connecting Threads, and the first one is now out! Party Pie is a 24″ mini quilt that uses a charm pack and a couple of fat quarters of background to create a fun checkered pattern with a sprinkling of pies… I mean, circles. Quartered circles. For those outside… Read More
Origami – Layer Cake Quilt Pattern: Kate Spain version
My latest pattern, Origami, is just perfect for layer cakes! Especially the small bed sized quilt – it has 42 blocks, which is the exact same number as pieces in a Moda layer cake. And I had one of those lying around – Voyager by Kate Spain. So I added in a couple of fat quarters of coordinating solids for the… Read More
Origami Pattern Testers
Once again, my fabulous pattern testers have absolutely rocked the Origami quilt pattern! I’m always blown away by the creativity and generosity of my testers for helping me release my patterns, and just wait until you see what I mean… Baby Quilt The baby quilt size for Origami is a sweet 39″ x 39″. The perfect size because you don’t… Read More
Sunset Isle: Month 11 – Parallelograms
Another month and another row added to our Sunset Isle quilts and another check in on Instagram on #sunsetislequilt! MONTH 11 I love the look of row 11, but I’m not gonna lie – I was very grateful to use my AccuQuilt 8″ Qube dies to help me make the blocks for this row. And while I’m being honest, I used… Read More
How to Design a Quilt Pattern: Origami – Writing the Pattern
Welcome back to part two of how to design a quilt pattern! In part one, I shared about how the Origami design came to be, and working out the fabric to use, so that means that it’s time to run the numbers. That is, work out the quilt maths* so that it’s a good quality pattern that is fun to… Read More
Sunset Isle – Month 9: Quarter Square Triangles
Another month and another row added to our Sunset Isle quilts and another check in on Instagram on #sunsetislequilt. MONTH 9 The row for this month features quarter-square triangles, or QSTs. You will see in the pattern that QSTs are made from two half-square triangles. I made mine with the same print-HST pairs, but you could easily mix it up… Read More