Modern quilt teacher and patterns
The latest installment of my AccuQuilt block of the month, Patisserie, is up on the AccuQuilt Australia blog! Month 10’s block is a sweet little diamond shaped dessert. As always, the fabrics are from the Solids Club provided by Jules at The Creative Retreat, with Kona Ash for the background. Grab the pattern for block 10 here! The 6″ Qube version was made a few… 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
Today is the start of AQC (the Australasian Quilt Convention), and I’ll be working there with AccuQuilt! I love working with brands in the quilting industry, and the team at Blessington (who distribute Pfaff and AccuQuilt) are absolutely fantastic to work with. And part of the fun has been sharing a block of the month sampler quilt on the AccuQuilt… 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
In all the busy-ness of summer holidays and preparing for QuiltCon, I forgot to share the past three blocks from the Patisserie Block Of the Month that I’m designing with AccuQuilt Australia! Bad blogger! But if you follow along with the AccuQuilt Australia blog, you won’t have missed them 😉 Block 5 were both blue this time. The 8″ Qube version… Read More
When it’s your turn as queen bee in a quilting bee, choosing what quilt block design and what colours to use can be a difficult decision to make! It can be a slow process doing it by hand, especially if you want to test out other colour options. Last year, I chose the Treasure Hunt quilt block for my month as… Read More
There’s been a secret I’ve been hiding for a few weeks, and it’s time to come clean… I have a new sewing machine! And it came in such a cute box… When I upgraded my very first machine to my big, beasty, 13kg straight-stitch workhorse, I knew that one day I would need a second, smaller machine with more stitch… Read More
Binding. The finishing touch on a quilt, not only in the literal sense of being the final step to finishing our quilts by encasing all the raw edges neatly and safely, but also in an aesthetic sense as it’s the final design choice to make. Do you go for a contrasting binding, creating a frame for the quilt? Or do… Read More
For the first few quilts I ever made, I technically didn’t even quilt them. Machine quilting seemed like a daunting step! I mean, I just had a baby Elna 1000, surely I couldn’t quilt at home on my domestic sewing machine? My first couple of (baby) quilts simply had the pieced top and flannel as the backing, which I stitched… Read More