Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Happy Tuesday! Connie made this beautiful spring pillow – it’s been a long, cold winter everywhere it seems, and this is certainly a happy reminder of what is hopefully just around the corner! Jo shared her newly-tidied up craft room, and you know how much a sucker I am for checking out where other people sew! And Lorna finished this… Read More
Now, we all love our notions fairly equally. Rulers, rotary cutters, little gadgets and gizmos, everything that helps make our sewing just that little bit easier that we can’t really narrow down to just a select few favourites. So I’ve cheated a little and narrowed it down to my favourite brand, because it appears I am partial to the Clover… Read More
Oh yes, more Japanese preschool bags! I really actually enjoy making these – each set is different in sizes and requirements. For example, this set also needed an apron, a cooking hat and a mask! I was scared of this apron. At first I thought I was going to have to make an “art smock” type, but then I saw… Read More
Hello my Sew Cutesters, it’s Tuesday again! Things are returning to normal, as is my sewing, hurrah! This week was all about finishing up my Charm Pack Cherry quilt all ready to share yesterday. I’m still in love with that coral stripe binding! Such a find! Seriously you guys have been getting productive – choosing just 3 projects to share… Read More
You know how you have piles of precuts lying around, just waiting for a quick and fun project one day? Well the Fat Quarter Shop can help solve that, with their latest free charm pack quilt pattern. Charm Pack Cherry is available as a free quilt pattern and with a Youtube quilting tutorial, helping to guide you through every step…. 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
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
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
I’ve hit the sewing machine this week, working on my Pantone Quilt Challenge project. It was hard to keep motivation up after realising my error-but-not-an-error, but I pushed through with big doses of Pinterest procrastination and finished the top on Sunday! Now I need to work out the backing – I think I might use the extra triangles somehow. Now… Read More