Modern quilt teacher and patterns
I just noticed that this season’s Blogger’s Quilt Festival has opened and this time I actually have some quilts to enter! I’ve decided to enter my original Bright Sky quilt and also my new Lighthearted Geese quilt for Kokka. Most of you will have already heard the background story for this quilt and the resulting pattern (and now currently a… Read More
A few months ago, Frances (aka Miss Matatabi and fellow Tokyo Bay dweller) contacted me asking if I’d be interested in making a quilt for Kokka’s newest quilting cotton range for Quilt Market and other trade shows. Uhhh, yes! Tick that one off the quilting bucket list! So a few days later, a delicious package of fabric arrived and I… Read More
Please excuse me today with some super sweet Disney magic dribbling… I signed up for the Disney Quilt Swap 2015 on the last day, and made it in! Since moving to Chiba/Tokyo, and having now gone to Tokyo Disneyland and Sea several times, I’ve finally understood the magic of Disney. I didn’t watch many Disney movies growing up, I KNOW,… Read More
This week’s blog hopping QALer is the lovely Ms Midge!! As you know, I got to hang out with her last week and go shopping at Nippori! On her list of things was to try and find a backing for her Bright Sky quilt that she has made using Nightshade by Tula Pink – not an easy range to match,… Read More
Hello fellow Sew Cute-ers! It’s been a fun quilty week around here with a trip to Nippori Fabric Town with Ms Midge last week! We bought up quite the haul, well, for us anyway. We’ve had some comments that we were quite restrained, and yes, yes we were! We both have reached that point of only tending to buy fabric… Read More
Hopefully you all have your centre stars and your outer star sections finished because this week we’re talking about piecing the quilt top and backing! The first tip is to measure your star sections – they should measure 16.5″ x 32.5″, but with all the long and diagonal seams and bias stretch happening, it may be out by even as… Read More
For those following along on Instagram (@blossomheartquilts), you would have seen my Wednesday jaunt to Nippori Fabric Town with the fabulous Ms Midge! Midge is one of my Wombat Stew bee gals, and I really love her work. She’s got similar tastes in fabric and design, which made shopping with her so much fun! The first port of call for… Read More
Almost four months ago (wait, what?!), I booked my QuiltCon tickets. It was one of the most nervous nights of my life – all that adrenaline waiting for registration to open and the race to select the classes and lectures and events and pay for them… Only those who experienced it can really understand what it was like! I am… Read More
Today’s beautiful Bright Sky QAL blog hopper is Melissa from My Fabric Relish. Melissa’s beautiful quilts and style have always attracted me, and as tends to happen in the online quilting world, we’ve become friends! So much so, that I’ll be staying with her for a few days around Quilt Con, driving to and from Dallas and Austin together, and… Read More
Happy Tuesday, lovely people!! We’ve just weathered our second typhoon in a week, but fall/autumn has definitely set in – toes are cold at night now! I’ve had a lovely week of sewing and playing with fabric – the biggest achievement being my Bright Sky quilt top is now finished! This week’s task for the Bright Sky QAL are… Read More