Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Last month, I had the opportunity to receive some fat quarters of Anna Maria Horner’s Passionflower fabric and a coordinating spool of Aurifil thread and have a play. Of course I said yes! Here’s the prints I received, along with a spool of Aurifil 4173. Around the same time, Sarah of Sarah Ashford Studio asked if I would like to… Read More
I’ve decided I need to make more rainbow quilts. This is my third major rainbow quilt this year, and I’m becoming a little addicted to the colour ordering. It’s pretty darn fun, guys, I tell ya what! This rainbow baby quilt was made for a very special baby – my brother-in-law’s first child. As they were waiting until the birth… Read More
A quilting bee mate of mine recently had adorable twin babies. So we did what every good group of quilty friends do and put together a lovely bundle of goodies! Some handmade items, and some goodies for the new big brother. I put my hand up to make some burp cloths, having a plan in mind… I knew that Kat… Read More
Last year at my needle turn applique class with Carolyn Friedlander, I started a Hesperides pillow top for my daughter. I chose my fabrics starting with the Heather Ross mice and unicorns, and then chose fabrics that pulled out the colours in those prints and kept to the fairy tale theme – a purple castle from Lizzy House’s 1001 Peeps, some more Heather… Read More
I have a confession. I’d never made a pincushion until last week. Not once, not anything! I so rarely pin anything myself, so I have never had the need to make one for myself, but then I joined an Australia-wide Modern Quilt Guild pincushion swap because peer pressure. And mercifully, I was partnered with Jenna in Sydney, whom I’ve met… Read More
Thank goodness my favourite gift to make people is a cushion cover. Small, quick, great chance to practice a new technique or free motion quilting skillz, and a fun way to play with fabric but quickly move on. Because holy schnizballs, guys, have you seen the Modern Makers Cushion Palooza goings on?! Open internationally, and with almost $2000 in prizes… Read More
This past week has been a hard one, full of farewells. And with these precious farewells, comes gifts. Gifts to say thank you, to express deep gratitude for the friendships, support, for patience with bumbling foreigners… Many were handmade, stocked up over the past few months, recently finished, or pushed through this week! My grammar nazi friends may hate this,… Read More
I rang in the New Year by doing an epic sort and clean out of my sewing room. When you move countries with pretty much only checked in baggage, every gram counts… and so far, the tally of what has been culled is over 11.4kgs. And that’s just what’s good enough to sell or giveaway, so the trash bag is… Read More
As many of you will know, I write a column for Make Modern entitled Maths & Methods – all about the maths behind quilting. In this month’s issue, I talked about how to strip-piece half-square triangles using jelly roll strips. It is an awesome method to have up your sleeve to get more out of your jelly rolls, as they… 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