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
This year, I have heard a few bits and pieces about wool ironing mats – these squishy, felted wool mats that supposedly are more efficient at pressing your fabric and sewing as the wool retains the heat so it presses from the top and bottom in one go. I’m not going to lie, I kinda gave them an eye squint… Read More
One big plus for my Pfaff Passport that is missing on my other machine is speed control (it would have been an extra $300 for it!), so since getting the Passport, I’ve finally been able to let my kids learn how to machine sew here and there, as they express the interest in doing so. Last holidays, my daughter asked… Read More
Due to my trip, I’m a little late to share the wonderful news that I’m returning once again as an Aurifil Artisan! I’ve long loved and used Aurifil, so it’s always a thrill to be able to officially represent the brand and product I love so much. It’s an incredibly talented group of Artisans – there’s quilters and bag makers… Read More
It is a very well documented fact that quilt binding is my most dreaded step in the whole quilting process. Machine binding quilts has helped reduced the levels of despair I experience while doing it (as it’s over so much more quickly now!), but all. that. pressing?! Ughhh… This probably started when in Japan, where we didn’t have an ironing… Read More
Amazon has a great new program that allows “influencers” (aka those who have a social media presence) to curate their own Amazon shop of sorts, filled with personal product recommendations. What better way to easily share the tools and notions that I highly recommend?! I’ve had fun filling my Amazon shop with items – notions, tools, books, yay! Everything… Read More
Do you label your quilts? Early in November, for some random reason I can’t recall, I had read this post by Jeni from In Color Order about her adorable little labels, and had been thinking that something like that would be much better for this lazy quilt labeller. I’m shocking at remembering to do it, unless I actually have to… Read More
A few years ago, I decided it was time to buy EQ7. If you haven’t heard of this program before, Electric Quilt is a quilt design software with a huge range of very useful features, including designing templates, calculating fabric yardage, a fantastic in-built library of current fabrics, and much more. It was one of the best investments I have… Read More
One thing you very quickly realise when you own an AccuQuilt is that you want to cut anything and everything with it! So, I thought it would be a useful post to share how you can use an AccuQuilt for any quilt pattern. Well, just about any quilt pattern! I’m using one of my most popular tutorials, the Tic Tac… Read More
Just a quick Geode QAL post today to share that one of the quilt along sponsors, Aurifil, has written up a lovely post on their blog Auribuzz about the quilt, including sharing a Geode quilt block they made! But it’s only fair to make you click through to see it and to not spoil it 😉 How are you all… Read More