Modern quilt teacher and patterns
With the Stellar BOM now wrapped up, that means that I’ve been working with AccuQuilt Australia for over two years… what?! Time flies when you’re having fun! It also means that it’s time for a new block of the month using the AccuQuilt Qube system. The first BOM series was Patisserie, and inspired by all sorts of yummy pastries. The… Read More
I love seeing sneak peeks and hearing the process of how other designers design their quilts… and I’m a quilt designer! I know what it takes! And I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in that… right? So I thought I’d share about my design process as I create the Origami quilt pattern. The Design Process The inspiration for quilt designs… Read More
Today, I shared a finished quilt that I made with my quilting bee. It was made using the free Treasure Hunt quilt block tutorial from my blog series, The Bee Hive Quilts, and is a foundation paper pieced block that I had fun colouring in a certain way. This is what each block looked like by itself: And in the… 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
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
I have been using Electric Quilt – first EQ7 and now EQ8 – to design all my quilts, quilt blocks, and quilt patterns. As I’ve mentioned before, there are plenty of times where I begin on graph paper, but I always run my designs through EQ8 to play around with colouring, whether it’s for a personal project, a quilting bee,… Read More
The pattern for the second quilt block for the Stellar BOM is now out! This one is a fun, basic sawtooth star quilt block, and is open for plenty of fun opportunities. My version continues my monochromatic scrappy prints and solids combo. Download the pattern from AccuQuilt Australia here But you could quite easily fussy cut something for that centre square,… 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
When you’re planning a sampler quilt design, sometimes you realise that you don’t want to just do a 3×4 grid, add some sashing, and call it a day. For my 8″ Qube version of Patisserie, I originally planned on a standard 3×4 grid with sashing, cornerstones, and a border. This is what I did for the 6″ Qube version, so… Read More
This month’s queen bee for my Miss B Haven quilting bee asked for the Checker block in a riot of large florals. Caroline aka Geometriquilt is not known for her floral tastes, so it was a (fun!) shock to us all! I must say, I don’t have many large multi-coloured florals, but I only needed four. The magic of the… Read More