Modern quilt teacher and patterns
I don’t know about you, but I love reading about the behind the scenes info of my favourite quilters and designers. So I asked some experienced designers to share about their design process and favourite tips and tricks for quilt designing. Each Friday, there will be 3 experienced designers sharing on their blogs! Today’s line up is chock full of… Read More
Today, we take a look at some beginner quilt designers and learn more about their designing experiences. Today is also your last chance to get DIY Block Design on sale! It is definitely not a requirement to design and make along with us, but as these ladies can share, it will certainly help you to do so. It may sound… Read More
Today is my turn to share the Block 14 Betty tutorial for the Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt quilt along! Betty is a great block for trying out some DIY quilt maths. It can be pieced by foundation paper piecing, or with templates, but this is one of the few blocks in the book that can easily pieced by rotary… Read More
I am in the glorious midst of spending time with family, which has included successfully teaching my nearly-2yo nephew to say my name – “Eess!” – and a trip to Disneyland yesterday where I took this picture of the quilt-spirational It’s A Small World ride. Why am I sharing this with you? Because if you’re participating in the #myDIYblockdesign challenge… Read More
My offering for The Bee Hive tutorial series this month is Magic 8 Ball, which I chose to share in October because I imagine it making a pretty cool Halloween quilt pattern too. This quick block creates octagons (hence the “8” ball!) when the corners are joined to other Magic 8 Ball blocks, as well as the central one. Of… Read More
October is a very kind month to include four full weeks, Monday to Sunday. Why? Because that lends itself so nicely to some Instagram fun for My DIY Block Design: four weekly challenges, four winners, four charm packs each week! Inspiration This week is all about sharing your inspiration photos – maybe it’s a tile design you’ve seen, or a bus… Read More
Hurray! Time to reveal the blocks I made for the first week of the Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt sew along! This week, we’re making Becky, Bonnie and Aunt and here’s how mine turned out. Aunt This one’s my favourite from this week, look at that fussy cutting! I used the rotary cutting instructions for this block, except that I… Read More
I don’t know about you, but I love reading about the behind the scenes info of my favourite quilters and designers. So I asked some experienced designers to share about their design process and favourite tips and tricks for quilt designing. Each Friday, there will be 3 experienced designers sharing on their blogs! Today’s line up is Christa Watson, Angie… Read More
Let the games begin! This October is going to be full of My DIY Block Design – helping you guys to design and make your own quilt blocks and projects. I am so excited to see what this month brings! You guys know how much I love teaching and sharing, and this blog hop is pretty much the exact reason… Read More
This month we have a second guest host, because I’m currently enjoying some beautiful family time with visitors! Hey y’all! I’m Joy, Alyce’s guest blogger for Sew Cute Tuesday. I’m regularly blogging at quilty joyjoy about my misadventures in homemaking, quilting, and living with multiple sclerosis. My mama taught me how to make a quilt on an old Singer Featherweight… Read More