Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Hands up who else gifted handmade this Christmas?? This Christmas saw 3 quilts find new homes, including the quilt that inspired the Origami quilt pattern in the first place – the Japanese Origami quilt. This quilt (and the resulting quilt pattern) was inspired by the Japanese fabrics that my mother-in-law purchased in Japan earlier this year. I was stuck on… Read More
My love affair with the navy, coral, golden mustard, and teal colour palette goes back a long way. I think this churn dash quilt is the first evidence of it, and that’s from 6 years ago! So when it came time to pick the colours for a new quilt for our couch, I headed straight to my favourite palette. For… Read More
Today is my daughter’s 8th birthday, and I could’ve sworn she was already at least 10 years old… She is such one clever, cheeky, strong, creative, sassy, little independent young woman, and she never fails to make us laugh! One of her presents today, at a long last, is a quilt for her bed. Warning: this post is long, and… Read More
Over the past year, my husband has had to deal with some intensely stressful situations at work. There has been one particular person who has been incredibly supportive of him throughout it all. She has advocated for him, encouraged him, sympathised with him, and is basically the reason he’s stuck around through it all! And as it’s all come to… Read More
Today is the start of AQC (the Australasian Quilt Convention), and I’ll be working there with AccuQuilt! I love working with brands in the quilting industry, and the team at Blessington (who distribute Pfaff and AccuQuilt) are absolutely fantastic to work with. And part of the fun has been sharing a block of the month sampler quilt on the AccuQuilt… Read More
While this post may be in March, I do solemnly swear that my Modern HST Sampler quilt was finished during February. Before I left for QuiltCon, no less! Although, in total disclosing honesty, it was a little bit of a rushed binding job #keepingitreal While I popped outside to get a few shots of this half-square triangle quilt, a neighbour… Read More
There is nothing more invigorating than finishing a quilt! Well, actually, there is… finishing a quilt that has been waiting for 21 months for binding! Yes, that is how long it has been since I got this sampler quilt back from the longarmer (you can see the quilting better in this post). April 2016. But now, I have fully finished… Read More
Well, sorta finished… It’s quilted, bound, and on our bed, but the journey isn’t over juuuust yet… I am BEYOND thrilled with this quilt. I started out making Tula Pink’s City Sampler quilt with a grand plan of having my blocks making a dark grey-white-dark blue ombre as well as paying tribute to a variety of my family’s favourite bits… Read More
Last year, I had a flash of inspiration when a few ideas collided to form one big idea. I heard about the Australasian Quilt Convention’s challenge theme for 2017 – Made In Australia: Flora and Fauna – around the same time that I was just so in love with the Rajah quilt at the exhibition at the NGV. The big… Read More
From very early on in my 100 Blocks journey, I knew exactly what I wanted to use for the sashing and borders – a Japanese newsprint just like my photo background! And quite a lot of you commented likewise, really confirming that it was the right way to go. I finally got around to working on it with my husband… Read More