Modern quilt teacher and patterns
I’d say that “eagle eyes may have noticed that I haven’t shared any update on my Milky Way Sampler quilt”… but clearly I place way too much faith in how closely you keep up to date on what I’m working on, haha! That or the guilt is weighing heavily… That’s more likely, actually. The truth of the matter is that… Read More
Another month, another play with my quilting bee queens’ blocks! This month, Rebecca aka @oneweebird chose the Star Plus block. She asked for predominantly black prints for the stars, and bright citrusy prints for the plus (for which she shared a cactus print to inspire our choices), with black and white for the plus background and a solid for the… Read More
When you’re planning a sampler quilt design, sometimes you realise that you don’t want to just do a 3×4 grid, add some sashing, and call it a day. For my 8″ Qube version of Patisserie, I originally planned on a standard 3×4 grid with sashing, cornerstones, and a border. This is what I did for the 6″ Qube version, so… Read More
It is a very well documented fact that quilt binding is my most dreaded step in the whole quilting process. Machine binding quilts has helped reduced the levels of despair I experience while doing it (as it’s over so much more quickly now!), but all. that. pressing?! Ughhh… This probably started when in Japan, where we didn’t have an ironing… Read More
Today is the start of AQC (the Australasian Quilt Convention), and I’ll be working there with AccuQuilt! I love working with brands in the quilting industry, and the team at Blessington (who distribute Pfaff and AccuQuilt) are absolutely fantastic to work with. And part of the fun has been sharing a block of the month sampler quilt on the AccuQuilt… Read More
UPDATE 2021: This pattern has since been renamed Blossom, you can read why here. However, I have left this post as-is so as to not erase my mistakes but to show how you can change and grow as a person. For quite a few years now, I’ve wanted to design a cherry blossom quilt block. While we were living in… Read More
There’s something that’s been on my heart for a few months now, and I’ve been struggling with it. Community. Real community. Soul-filling, life-giving community. It is something that we all innately crave, whether we realise it or not. To be with others who understand, who love, who do not judge but support and encourage. I have it with my family,… Read More
Amazon has a great new program that allows “influencers” (aka those who have a social media presence) to curate their own Amazon shop of sorts, filled with personal product recommendations. What better way to easily share the tools and notions that I highly recommend?! I’ve had fun filling my Amazon shop with items – notions, tools, books, yay! Everything… Read More
This month’s queen bee for my Miss B Haven quilting bee asked for the Checker block in a riot of large florals. Caroline aka Geometriquilt is not known for her floral tastes, so it was a (fun!) shock to us all! I must say, I don’t have many large multi-coloured florals, but I only needed four. The magic of the… Read More
In all the busy-ness of summer holidays and preparing for QuiltCon, I forgot to share the past three blocks from the Patisserie Block Of the Month that I’m designing with AccuQuilt Australia! Bad blogger! But if you follow along with the AccuQuilt Australia blog, you won’t have missed them 😉 Block 5 were both blue this time. The 8″ Qube version… Read More