Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Last year I was on a roll, sharing each month’s lot of blocks from various bees and BOMs, but then it just dwindled off and I got distracted. But let’s start the year off on the right foot, ‘mk? And play a little catch up because there’s some blocks I’m pretty proud of from last year! For January’s Wombat Stew… Read More
Last year, I put a call out for pattern testers and was overwhelmed by how many of you were interested!! The first pattern to be put to the test was my Fairy Tale Castle block. I just loved seeing how different people interpreted the block in different ways through their choices of fabric! I now have two more patterns currently… Read More
It’s Sew Cute Tuesday! That means it’s Tuesday and my husband will be arriving home tonight from a business trip! Which has of course meant that kids have gotten sick, been quick to tears because of missing daddy, you know, the usual. Alisa made this super sweet mini and then blogged about it to get over jet-lag. I’m currently running… Read More
I love reading blogs. Probably a little too much if you ask my husband! As such, I’ve worked hard to declutter my reader over the past few months, paring down to only blogs that I want to read all (or at least most) of their posts. Although I do refuse to admit how many that still is… It also meant… Read More
I seriously love this swap. Like, seriously. This time, I had Jenny as my partner, and we had fun challenging each other to think beyond your standard small zippered pouch because we both had plenty of those. So I decided this was the time to learn how to make a lined drawstring bag! Jenny said her favourite candy flavours were… Read More
Last year I had this wild idea. I was involved in 2 “normal” stash quilting bees, making a block each month for the queen bee according to their colour and pattern desires. Some months it was a lot of fun or they challenged me to grow as a quilter – like sewing my first curves. Other months, it was a… Read More
There hasn’t been much sewing this week, so much as snowing and the resulting requisite snow playing! Tokyo and surrounding areas received an almost 50-year record snow fall, with our place receiving over a foot of snow. Apparently it was essentially a “snow typhoon”! Sunday morning was spent outside with all the neighbours shovelling snow while the kids exchanged snow… Read More
Do you know what’s really hard to find? True light blue fabric. Aqua/light teal/turquoise abounds in the fabric world, but a true light blue? A sky blue? Very hard to find! As you can see, my stash is in colour order, and includes yellow green, blue green, and kinda sort light blue piles. But honestly, out of all of those,… Read More
This week I’ve finished up a new quilt top, that will soon be winging it’s way to a longarm quilter, just as soon as I’ve decided how to back it! This is the first time I’ve sent a quilt top to a longarmer, and gosh, I actually feel rather nervous! Are my seams straight enough? Flat enough? Is my quilt… Read More
When THIS happens*, you know it’s time to take a break from the machine and do something else for a change. Like pull fabric for a new quilt bee for the year. And wonder why my iPhone camera doesn’t like photographing fabric every now and then despite angling the phone/fabric/light different ways to fix it (see the lines on the… Read More