Modern quilt teacher and patterns
You guys have been so busy making Bee Hive blocks and sharing on Instagram on #thebeehivequilts feed! I will regularly be sharing blocks and quilts from the #thebeehivequilts hashtag feed on Instagram that you guys have been sharing so that you can see the different ways people interpret quilts blocks from The Bee Hive. Today, I’m sharing your work making… Read More
I’ve been having a play with my sketchbook this week, thinking about what kind of free motion quilting designs I want to use to fill in my Swarm quilt. I’ve been rewatching the range of free motion quilting classes on Craftsy that I’ve signed up for over the past 2 years, and gathering some ideas. When I thought I’d finished… Read More
I joined the Quilt Design A Day group on Facebook in February, having been inspired to design just for the sake of designing and creating (and building up my EQ7 muscles!). Each week, a member is in charge of posting “sparks” – a photo they’ve taken and then pulled some of the colours out to make a palette. Everyone else… Read More
Hello guys! Welcome back to Sew Cute Tuesday, the part of the show where you guys show off your awesomeness and we get to check out the eye candy. I’ve got basset hounds on my mind this week, with my basset-hound-owning in-laws arriving tomorrow night for 3 weeks, yippee! We love having family visiting us here in Japan, and we’ve… Read More
I’m going to admit now that it was a conscious challenge to not do all my designs for The Bee Hive to be playing with flying geese and half-square triangles! But Spinwheel was much too fun to not include in this series. It uses one 6″ unit rotated four times to make up the 12″ block, which when put into… Read More
It only took me 6 weeks to finally finish quilting a 24″ square mini, but hey, I got it done! Between QuiltCon and the returning to 4 weeks and counting of my husband and I taking turns to be sick (literally, the day I flew back he had come down with a temperature), and other life events like end of… Read More
I am a perfectionist. I like things to be in order, and chaos stresses me out. Whether it’s a messy house, or our normal life/routine is out of whack, I start to get stressed until things settle down and the visual clutter of the mess is away. But you know how there’s this saying: It’s true. Quilting has really helped… Read More
It’s end of school-year/spring holidays here, so my sewing this week has been preschool bags for my friend, which I need to finish off this week and make a couple of new ones for my kids too! Julie has experimented with HSTs to make this scrappilicious forest scene, and the movement of colours and shapes really captures my heart!… Read More
Hello! I’m Jo, Alyce’s guest blogger today for Sew Cute Tuesday! You can find me regularly blogging over at Riddle and {Whimsy}! I grew up being surrounded with quilting as my mum is a quilter but have only started doing it myself over the last few years. Since joining the online quilting community, I’ve become completely addicted to Instagram (I’m… Read More
This block has a ton of room to play with fabric placement! Finished block size: 12 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ Requirements This is a scrappy block perfect for using up tiny left over squares from other projects. 1 – 10″ x 10″ square for background centre 1 – FQ for outer background 32 – 1 3/4″ x 1 3/4″ squares… Read More