Modern quilt teacher and patterns
When your good quilting friend is in a bit of a internet connection pickle, you step right on up and help host her weekly quilting linky! Gemma at Pretty Bobbins hosts a quilting linky each Thursday for you to link up any free motion or other quilting posts from the week. It’s kinda ironic that she asked me, considering that… Read More
On Monday, I had the most amazing opportunity to catch up with a friend I have known since I started college! She has been a big blessing in my life and one of my kids’ most favourite soft toys (a classic Piglet) was from her. You know how special soft toys are! She even took my husband for Korean BBQ… Read More
Last week, I shared the feather quilt blocks I made for Gina, including this paper pieced feather block. I wanted to share the pattern with you, as it’s a great beginner-friendly paper piecing pattern and a great scrap buster! And while I’m at it, a full paper piecing tutorial to show you just how easy it is. For those who… Read More
This has been the state of my sewing desk this week, as I’ve slowly plodded through Gemma’s New York Beauty block for Wombat Stew (February… not that anyone’s keep count?!). Thankfully each arc is easily chain pieced, and I even tested out sewing a centre segment to the first arc with much success! The pink and yellow arcs are nice… Read More
The fabulous Sweet Pouch Swap is happening again! The delicious swap that combines making pouches/bags/clutches/etc and stuffing them with sweet treats from your area and sending them worldwide. This time the swap is only international – not only does that help cut down a lot of admin work, but it also means you will get international yummies in your mailbox!… Read More
I’m so excited to announce that my Fairy Tale Castle pattern is now available! This a big castle, finishing at 18″x24″, and the windows are perfect for fussy cutting little prince and princesses, mythical creatures, pirates and more! I designed this block as a part of my Wombat Stew paper piecing bee for Gina’s fairy tale month. In fact, there’s… Read More
I knew from the minute I started making the Totoro quilt that I wanted to make the quilting special. I wanted to try doing different designs for the different sections the way Gemma and Jess do so brilliantly. However, I have a little Elna with only 6″ of throat space and no extension table or drop-in sewing table. She’s also… Read More
Today we’re trying something a little different – joining in a Japanese blog hop talking about free motion quilting and including an interview with Angela Walters! My friend, Japanese Kate Spain supplier and owner of Red Coconut, Makiko O’Neill, asked if I would share my free motion quilting journey. I’m a baby free motion quilter! I only began in March… Read More
I’m a part of Wombat Stew – a paper piecing bee of Aussies (and now 1 honorary Aussie!) – and we have just finished Round 1. I kicked it off all the way back in September, asking for Japanese cuisine-themed blocks. And wow, the girls delivered! Marieka made 2 cups of chopsticks and the plate in the bottom corner, Jane… Read More
When I first shared these paper pieced pompom blocks last month in the monthly bees and BOMs round up, many of you were rather impressed, for which I thank you! But they’re really not the tricky -all I did was use the very popular paper pieced flying geese pattern. If you look carefully, you can see that the lighter solid… Read More