Alyce, Author at Blossom Heart Quilts

What I Will Wear

I have had the urge to try sewing clothes for a while. I dabbled with kids’ PJ pants, and won. And now I have my eyes set on sewing a top for me. I’m thinking the Wiksten tank as I know that style suits me already, having got 2 similar tanks in my wardrobe and I’ve heard good reports about… Read More

Let’s Get Acquainted Link Up

Have you heard of this fun linky run by Beth from Plum and June? Well now you have as it’s my turn to guest host this marvellous linky! What’s it for? A little bit of getting to know you through the fun way to link up (details below) and a little bit of sharing what you’ve been up to. For… Read More

TGIFF: 20 Minute Library Bag

This week, Isabelle started the fortnightly (ish…) playroom at Jonathan’s preschool. It’s a 1 hour program that mums and kids go to together the year before they start preschool, and are roughly every fortnight to equate to 20 sessions in the school year. And as such, she needed her own school book bag to carry her indoor shoes and papers… Read More

Paper Pieced Pompom Tutorial

When I first shared these paper pieced pompom blocks last month in the monthly bees and BOMs round up, many of you were rather impressed, for which I thank you! But they’re really not the tricky -all I did was use the very popular paper pieced flying geese pattern. If you look carefully, you can see that the lighter solid… Read More

Just Keep Swimming…

I had a wonderful Saturday, when my husband took the kids out for over 4 hours and I got half of my Good Fortune quilt quilted up. I had much more success than the first block, although still not perfect, but I had fun quilting whilst watching new episodes of Gossip Girl via Hulu, and took an intermission to go… Read More

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway – Japanese Fabrics

*****GIVEAWAY CLOSED – Congratulations Mary Ann #85***** Welcome to the Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day! Living in Japan, I can’t possibly buy all the fabrics I love and keep them… so instead I share my finds in my Etsy store. I have a range of different Japanese fabrics – text, kawaii, and more as well as a monthly fabric club… Read More

Name That Fabric! May Giveaway

*****GIVEAWAY CLOSED – Congratulations Lisa! ***** On the first Monday of each month, I share a fabric from the Fat Quarter Shop. Your job is to find it in their store and come back and tell me the name of that print, plus the name of one other print from the same line that you like! One random, correct winner will… Read More

Sunday Stash: Something Different…

For 12 months, I have been sending files to my husband to print off at work. All of Kristy’s paper piecing patterns, trial prints of my own patterns, paperwork, everything. But no more! A sleek Canon is now gracing the desktop! Nothing fancy, she just prints. In fact it would be cheaper to buy a new printer and the ink… Read More

TGIFF: A Clothing Virgin No More!

I have previously fooled around with clothing… discounting a nightmare pair of boxer shorts in awful silky polyester stuff in year 8 (by the way, who does that to beginner sewists?!)… having made a very quick and too-big elastic waisted skirt for Isabelle’s first birthday party. And then last week I bravely put my hand up to pattern-test for Sew… Read More

Japanese Bundle Club – Kids’ Month!

It’s the month a lot of you have been waiting for, Japanese Bundle Club is going kids’ themed! May 5th is こどもの日 (Kodomo no Hi) – Children’s Day. People celebrate this national holiday by hanging up koinobori – fish flags/kits – where the black one represents the father, the red carp represents the mother, and the blue carp represents the… Read More