Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Those following along on Instagram will have seen my Sweet Pouch Swap progress, and I shared my first pouch fail here last week. I am happy to report that I have successfully finished another pouch, and finished stuffing it full of sweet treats yesterday after a quick trip to the craft store for some sweet buttons, all ready to send… Read More
Fons & Porter have a new education site Daily Craft TV full of crafty video lessons – quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, scrapbooking and paper craft. Classes are either $4.99 or $9.99, which means the classes are a lot lower in price than similar sites such as Craftsy. Each class primarily covers one skill, technique or pattern The instructors include well-known… Read More
I have started cutting piles of 2.5″ squares for the Totoro baby quilt, and couldn’t resist starting to sew some tree together. I’m really happy with the mix of prints! The perfect mix of browns, if I do say so myself. Only about another million squares, HSTs and half-rectangle triangles to go… The second Japanese baby quilt to make is… Read More
Your delicious pouches are due to be sent this Friday (August 23), and it’s been exciting seeing them pop up around the place as you’ve been making and sending and receiving them. The best place to see them all is on Instagram with the tag #sweetpouchswap. Cat from Cat & Vee made this stunner and stuffed it full of deliciousness… Read More
My beautiful friend Lisa at Life As We Know It is hosting a weekly linky party sharing mood boards based on the weekly theme. This week is the first, and being florals, I thought I’d join in and share a fabric mosaic of some favourite florals! The trick to mixing and matching florals is to get a range of scales… Read More
I have the bestest best friend – one who messages me to ask what a quilting friend of her’s might like for her birthday because I’m a quilter and might have some good ideas. I recommended A Field Guide To Fabric Design by Kim Kight as a good, interesting read. A parcel arrived for me a few days before my… Read More
This week I tackled my Sweet Pouch Swap pouch. I made the panels, and then decided what pattern to use – the Triangle Patchwork Box Pouch from Patchwork Please. Just obviously without the triangles and using my panels instead. I hadn’t tackled such a “3D” pouch before, but having made the Super Tote, I thought I could do it. I… Read More
Day 5 of toilet training, and maybe, just maybe, we’ve had a breakthrough today… holding on for 90+ minutes from the start is great but only if I don’t have to prompt her all the time. Except this afternoon she seems to have clicked to the message. Anyway! I took today’s naptime to duck into my sewing room to start… Read More
Yesterday as I was sitting sewing up some quilt scraps that were included in some scrap bundles I bought off Instagram, I was thinking about how I have a few blocks and such that are just sitting in my cupboard, and have been for at least a year. I was thinking about how I could pass them on to someone… Read More
July was a big month for bee blocks! Literally and technically. Sharon’s blocks forced me to face my fears of curves, and to great success! I was scavenging my stash for novelty “scenic” prints for her grandson to see as he drives his toy cars along the grey road, and could only pull out leftover charms from Jonathan’s transport I-spy… Read More