Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Poor Melissa has been waiting since April for her Big Ben block from me!! I hit a design wall and shelved it away until, oops, June. Thankfully Wombat Stew decided to have a respite month in May to help people catch up on blocks, because I wasn’t the only one a little late with blocks! So I decided to just… Read More
Each Friday, an ex-pat mothers-in-Japan group I am in on Facebook has a Grateful Friday thread. We have the rest of the week to whine and moan about life in Japan (not all the time, just sometimes), but each Friday we share something we’re grateful for. Well, it’s not Friday, and this isn’t that group, but I am so thankful… Read More
Last year I was on a roll, sharing each month’s lot of blocks from various bees and BOMs, but then it just dwindled off and I got distracted. But let’s start the year off on the right foot, ‘mk? And play a little catch up because there’s some blocks I’m pretty proud of from last year! For January’s Wombat Stew… Read More
Last year I had this wild idea. I was involved in 2 “normal” stash quilting bees, making a block each month for the queen bee according to their colour and pattern desires. Some months it was a lot of fun or they challenged me to grow as a quilter – like sewing my first curves. Other months, it was a… Read More
I love my Wombat Stew girls – my online paper piecing quilting bee buddies! They inspire many a hyperbole-filled blog post from me with their amazing talents. We are two-thirds of the way through our second round, and December was our yearly Secret Santa month off. Last year, Fiona organised it all so she knew who had who. I made… Read More
QCA Bee #1 called for two scrappy sprouts, using low volume prints for the background and one colour family for the leaves for each block. I have now learned that if using light blue fabrics, to choose even lower volume background prints for more contrast! But I did get to use up some random low volume scraps in my scrap… Read More
The past week has been a time of slowly getting back into normal routine now that preschool is back. I’m really appreciating the quieter house with just one kid around, and thankfully her big brother taught her how to play imaginary games so she’s been a lot happier entertaining herself while I start to catch up on sewing! I purposely… Read More
July was a big month for bee blocks! Literally and technically. Sharon’s blocks forced me to face my fears of curves, and to great success! I was scavenging my stash for novelty “scenic” prints for her grandson to see as he drives his toy cars along the grey road, and could only pull out leftover charms from Jonathan’s transport I-spy… Read More
Yes, it is almost the end of July and I am posting about June’s blocks. Yes, this means I was late finishing them all and yes, given how I hate being late with things for other people and the potential of disappointing them, this has been a big frustration! But I was sick most of June, with the kids having… Read More
These pretty little butterflies are for QCA Bee #5 – Tracy asked for fun, bright prints that make us happy for her daughter. She is going to embroider happy, encouraging and inspiring words and phrases on the white strips. Some bee members embroidered their’s, but I didn’t want for my first, probably rather wonky, attempt at embroidering to be for… Read More