Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re having a look at a few different ways to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy! Today we’re stripping down to work with strips of fabric to create half square… Read More
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re looking at a few different ways to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy! On Monday, we had a quick recap of how to create the standard and alternate half… Read More
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re going to have a look at a few different HST tutorials (and the maths formula!) to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy.That way you can choose which method will… Read More
As you read earlier this week for my Blogger’s Quilt Festival post, my Happy Star quilt was made for the Schnitzel & Boo mini quilt swap earlier this year. And now, it’s available as a pattern for you all to make too! It is a paper piecing pattern that would suit a confident beginner, which means that even if you’ve… Read More
For my second entry to the Blogger’s Quilt Festival, I’m entering my Happy Star mini quilt. I made the Happy Star mini quilt for the last Schnitzel & Boo mini quilt swap on Instagram for @happypigeon – whom I even got to meet at QuiltCon! – and was inspired by a photo she shared on her Instagram during the swap:… Read More
This quilt was one that I finished JUST after the last festival – just too late to enter it then! And then I nearly forgot to enter it this time around, but thankfully there’s still a couple of days left to enter before voting opens! I used a fat eighth bundle of Sunnyside by Kate Spain to make this quilt… Read More
Today’s guest host is a lovely lady whom I refer to as my alternate-universe twin… you’ll soon see why… Hi guys, I’m your host for this week’s “Sew Cute Tuesday”. My name is Alice and I blog at Blossom Quilts. Sounds* familiar? I created my blog about a year ago and came across Alyce from Blossom Heart Quilt after few… Read More
Hi everyone, it’s Angie from GnomeAngel.com and it’s my great pleasure and delight to reveal the 12″ finished quilt block I designed for The Bee Hive: Ripples. (That’s ripple, not nipples as some of us are prone to read it! Filth pots!) This pattern works well in all solids, only 2 colours, scrappy or with a little mix of everything…. Read More
Hello there, lovely people! I’ve been quilting up a maaaaad storm this past week finishing up my Aurora Sampler quilt ready for the next issue of Make Modern! It’s now all ready to bind, so that’s the next couple of nights on the sofa sorted. Meanwhile, I can’t believe that Katie forgot she’d finished this quilt top in April! And… Read More
Woohoo! There’s now over 500 posts on Instagram using #thebeehivequilts!!! That’s just a little exciting!! Each month I’ve been sharing blocks and quilts from the #thebeehivequilts hashtag feed on Instagram that you guys have so that you can see the different ways people interpret quilts blocks from The Bee Hive. Today, I’m sharing your work making the Spinwheel and Double… Read More