Modern quilt teacher and patterns
With the Modern HST Sampler QAL starting next week, I wanted to share a few tools you might like to have on hand to help you create beautiful and accurate quilt blocks, and especially the HSTs within them. Minimum requirements You’re going to need a ruler that measures at least 4.5″ x 12.5″, and that has a 45 degree line… Read More
Happy New Year!! Who else is excited about what 2016 is to bring?! Me! For starters, next month I am off to QuiltCon again, then in March my son graduates from Japanese preschool, and on April 2, we leave Japan. Woahhh… So maybe it’s a case of excited and a little stressed, haha! To start the year off, I would… Read More
As many of you will know, I write a column for Make Modern entitled Maths & Methods – all about the maths behind quilting. In this month’s issue, I talked about how to strip-piece half-square triangles using jelly roll strips. It is an awesome method to have up your sleeve to get more out of your jelly rolls, as they… Read More
Merry Christmas, from my family to your’s! I hope that you are having a beautiful Christmas wherever you may be, whether it’s with family and loved ones, or a quiet one; whether it’s a summery BBQ outside or a snowed-in one filled with hot chocolate; whether Santa brought you something quilty or not! Thank you from the bottom of my… Read More
The only possible way to end this year off for Blossom Heart Quilts is to share my finished sampler quilt top of all 25 blocks from The Bee Hive quilt block tutorial series! Which ended up too big for my quilt holder to hold, so pinned up on a wall (that’s juuuust too small to hold it properly!) it was…… Read More
Once you’ve worked out how you’re finishing a sampler quilt, the next step is to quilt the thing… but where do you start on how to quilt a sampler quilt?! Sampler quilts are often a variety of colours, definitely a range of designs across the quilt top, all of which make for a quilt top that makes it hard to… Read More
It seems that Blossom Heart Quilts is currently all about the sampler quilts at the moment! I’m currently working on finishing my quilt top with all the blocks from The Bee Hive tutorial series, I’m (very slowly) working on my 1930s Farmer’s Wife sampler quilt, and next year I’m hosting the Modern HST Sampler quilt along! So when thinking about… Read More
The only sewing thing I got done this week was receiving my first ever Spoonflower order, thanks to busy family time and germs germs germs. This beautiful fabric is designed by the incredibly talented Keera from Live Love Sew! It’s destined to become a cushion cover for myself, because that’s what you do when you buy your friend’s fabric –… Read More
Thank you so much for your incredible response to my announcement of the Modern HST Sampler quilt along! Wow, it seems like 2016 is going to be so super fun sewing along with you all! There’s been some great questions pop up already that I wanted to make sure you’re all on the same page with, just in case you… Read More
I sewed ONE thing this week… and a ton of sashing cutting to sash up my quilt sampler of blocks from The Bee Hive! So let’s look at some pretty things you guys have been making… like Teje’s beautiful North Star quilt top. And this Liberty hexie Christmas card! Or how about this adorable Christmas sampler quilt from Tanya?! Ok… Read More