Modern quilt teacher and patterns
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
I’m not sure where I last left off sharing my quilting bee blocks for my bee, Miss B Haven, but I’m here today with the blocks from December and January! For December, Alison chose the Treasure Hunt block and asked for scrappy low volume with one strip of a dusty colour per quadrant. We’ve all been drooling over how calm and… Read More
Have you ever wanted to join a quilting bee? Now’s your chance! If you don’t know what a quilting bee is, well, let me quickly help you with that. ***SIGN UPS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS YEAR*** A quilting bee is a group of 12 quilters who take turns to be Queen Bee every month. As Queen Bee, you get to choose… Read More
If you’ve been around any length of time, you’ll know that I love me some fussy cutting. It makes quilting projects just that little bit more personalised, added fun to make AND fun to look at too! So I really love it when my quilting bee peeps ask for fussy cutting. Jane added in a bonus challenge – fussy cut… Read More
Another month, and another set of blocks for my quilting bee! This month’s queen is Bec aka @skyberries, and she asked if I could EQ8 up her ideas before committing to her choice for the month. Now Bec makes some AMAZING quilts, and I was so excited to see what she’d choose. Firstly, she chose the Fizzy block. Good start!… Read More
Another month, another play with my quilting bee queens’ blocks! This month, Rebecca aka @oneweebird chose the Star Plus block. She asked for predominantly black prints for the stars, and bright citrusy prints for the plus (for which she shared a cactus print to inspire our choices), with black and white for the plus background and a solid for the… 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
As I mentioned last week, one of my main personal goals is to finish 12 UFOs (unfinished objects) this year – one per month. The main reason why is to remove the emotional, mental, and physical clutter that’s caused by having these projects lying around. And one per month is totally doable! To start with, I sat down and listed… Read More
After receiving quite a few emails and comments, I’m excited to announce that once again, I am organising quilting bees for The Bee Hive 2018! For those who are new around here, in 2015 I hosted a series called The Bee Hive which featured 25 quilt block designs that each created secondary designs when used in bulk. Which means they… Read More
Read the title of this blog post once more, aloud… *giggles* Yep, I gathered a bunch of my top-notch quilty buddies to join in this year’s quilting bees sewing from the quilt blocks from The Bee Hive! And it’s a fantastic group of ladies, if our name doesn’t already give that away 😉 In January, I was queen bee and… Read More