Modern quilt teacher and patterns
I am now one-third of the way through the 1930’s Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt! I’ve made 34 blocks and that’s definitely a milestone worth celebrating by sharing a (very) cobbled together image of what my overall quilt is shaping up to look like. It feels slightly traitorous to Kate Spain to admit that I’m actually going to be using this… Read More
Today’s blocks are an odd assortment from December and January – two made in an attempt to catch up, and one because I just really wanted to make a block and it was one of the simpler options from January to “whip” up! I say “whip” with air quotes because it turned out to be a bit tricky, but I’ll… Read More
Time for the third block of the Modern HST Sampler! By the end of the year, you will not only have made 24 blocks in total, and thus a beautiful sampler quilt, but you will have some well-honed HST making skills. If you need more information, you can find out more about: The QAL and fabric requirements Required and recommended… Read More
Today there’s a couple of blocks that I forgot to share! With all my organising and packing and destashing, a couple of blocks got lost in the mix. Not literally lost, nothing that dramatic! Just that my usual workflow from making the blocks to blogging them got interrupted and Cat and Mrs Morgan almost never made it to the blogging… Read More
Time for the second block of the Modern HST Sampler! By the end of the year, you will not only have made 24 blocks in total, and thus a beautiful sampler quilt, but you will have some well-honed HST making skills. If you need more information, you can find out more about: The QAL and fabric requirements Required and recommended… Read More
At last, I finished month 2’s blocks for my Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt! Thankfully month 3 was only a handful of blocks and a few weeks off, so I was able to catch up and am now up to date. But first, let’s round out month 2… Grandma I was originally thinking about rotary cutting and piecing Grandma, until… Read More
Today I have two blocks to share with you as a part of the Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt QAL! When I sat down and looked at these blocks, I could see why these blocks are being released together. They both involved the same basic nine-patch block structure, they both have four half-square triangles, and they both have economy squares… Read More
Welcome to the Modern HST Sampler! This year, we will be making 24 modern HST quilt blocks, and by the end of the year, you will not only have a beautiful sampler quilt, but you will have some well-honed HST making skills. If you need more information, you can find out more about: The QAL and fabric requirements Required and… Read More
With the Modern HST Sampler QAL starting next week, I wanted to share a few tools you might like to have on hand to help you create beautiful and accurate quilt blocks, and especially the HSTs within them. Minimum requirements You’re going to need a ruler that measures at least 4.5″ x 12.5″, and that has a 45 degree line… Read More
The only possible way to end this year off for Blossom Heart Quilts is to share my finished sampler quilt top of all 25 blocks from The Bee Hive quilt block tutorial series! Which ended up too big for my quilt holder to hold, so pinned up on a wall (that’s juuuust too small to hold it properly!) it was…… Read More