Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Judging by the emails and comments, you guys are super excited to get organised for The Bee Hive 2017! Well, now’s your time, folks, because… *drum rolllllll* … sign ups are now open to get yourself into a Swarm for next year! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, let me explain. A quilting bee is a group of 12 quilters… Read More
The only possible way to end this year off for Blossom Heart Quilts is to share my finished sampler quilt top of all 25 blocks from The Bee Hive quilt block tutorial series! Which ended up too big for my quilt holder to hold, so pinned up on a wall (that’s juuuust too small to hold it properly!) it was…… Read More
Guys! This is the final quilt block tutorial for The Bee Hive! Wow, what an incredible year this has been. Thank you so much for joining me in this journey! The final and 25th block for The Bee Hive is Treasure Hunt. A super quick paper-pieced pattern (because who wants to cut strips at sixteenths of an inch?!) that you… Read More
Hi, I’m Melissa aka Ms Midge, and today is my turn in Alyce’s great quilt block tutorial series. I got to work playing with different shapes, and in the end, was really happy with what I have now coined the “Shine Bright” block. It’s an Aztec inspired design, but truth be told, depending on your fabric choices and how you… Read More
ALL SIGN UPS AFTER 9:30pm JST WILL BE PLACED ON THE WAITLIST UNTIL ALL CURRENT SIGN UPS ARE ASSIGNED, AND I KNOW HOW MANY SPACES ARE REMAINING. At the start of this year, Angie helped me set up a quilting bee to sew along with The Bee Hive tutorials. The response was incredibly overwhelming, and we ended up with over… Read More
Funny background story: I mentioned a few weeks ago that I wanted my Quatrefoil block to be the very centre of my sampler quilt for The Bee Hive, and to do so, I needed 25 blocks instead of 24. There was some excited feedback from people at the idea of another bonus block, and so I designed and made this… Read More
Not that I could, but if I were to choose a favourite kind of repeating quilt block, second to star quilt blocks of course, it’d be ones like this month’s block where the feeling is a little more modern, a little more different than what you might expect. Where you can have a bit more fun playing around with layouts…. Read More
Hello!! I’m Diane and I sometimes blog over at from blank pages… (because I’ll be honest, there are too many things to do in a day, and sadly blogging doesn’t make it on the list near enough!) 😉 You can find me regularly on Instagram! I’m @fromblankpages. I’m super excited to share my block with you today! I LOVE the… Read More
My blog has turned out to be all about the quilt blocks this year, with The Bee Hive tutorials every second week! And that’s awesome, because I love designing, and I love teaching! Today I want to share you the design process repeating quilt blocks by showing you the evolution of October’s block from me – Magic 8 Ball. This… Read More
My offering for The Bee Hive tutorial series this month is Magic 8 Ball, which I chose to share in October because I imagine it making a pretty cool Halloween quilt pattern too. This quick block creates octagons (hence the “8” ball!) when the corners are joined to other Magic 8 Ball blocks, as well as the central one. Of… Read More