Modern quilt teacher and patterns
As always, feel completely free to choose whatever fabric you like! Should you wish for some points and tips, read on… There are 4 main “zones” of fabric: the centre square, the inner star points, the outer star diamonds and the outer star points. For each zone, the minimum fabric requirements are fat quarters – 1 fat quarter for the… Read More
Wow, who knew you would be as interested as we were in the whole Frixion-on-quilts thing?! I have loved reading through your comments, and I thought I’d share some further tips some of you shared. – When used on dark fabrics, it can leave a bleached line, especially if it is left sitting for a while. Some have even had… Read More
When the Fat Quarter Shop contacted me about joining this blog hop, they asked us to try something new and different with our sewing – us quilters should try something different like bags or garments. And that was my plan! A new dress for me, but as you know, I hurt my shoulder earlier this month, just after my Cotton… Read More
When I released my Bright Sky quilt pattern earlier this year, several people mentioned how they would love to do a QAL of the pattern because it’s a quick, fun quilt to piece and produces a great lap size of 64″ square. Well, your wish is my command! I’m very happy to announce that the Bright Sky quilt along will… Read More
You guys really pulled on your creative socks last week to design some great baby quilts using Pattern Jam! Also, Emily really appreciates all the feedback you left in the comments, thank you! So, I had the hard task of choosing a top 5 for you to vote on… I went for two “girl” quilts, two “boy” quilts and a… Read More
I have been slowly working on adding a pattern shop to my actual blog! It was a huge part of my reason for moving to WordPress last year, it just took me a while to get around to setting it up. But set up it is, and you can now purchase all my patterns right here on the blog! When… Read More
I’ve been sharing some progress pictures of this pillow cover on Instagram over the past week, as I’ve has some fun experimenting and trying out some new free motion quilting. It is seriously so much fun gettin’ my FMQ on for a small project like this! No giant roll of quilt to drag around… But that’s not the point of… Read More
Thanks to everyone who shared get well wishes regarding my shoulder! It’s doing much better and I can use it a lot more, although there’s still too many twinges for my liking. I’ve got another physio appointment this afternoon, so we’ll get there. Susanne made these amazing bee blocks – I have very low interest in tackling curves, so I… Read More
October is going to be one bright, starry month with the Bright Sky quilt along! We’re talking giveaways and blog hops and fabulous linky prizes… I’ll be sharing all the details next week, and I hope you’ll be as excited as I am to hear all the news! So start pulling out your favourite fat quarters, because this is going… Read More
When Emily reached out to me, I had previously heard a little bit about Pattern Jam, but I hadn’t realised just what a fun site with great potential it is! I’ve dabbled a lot in quilt pattern designing – all my designs start in my graph book with a Frixion pen and markers for colouring. When I want to digitalise… Read More