Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Over the past year, we’ve made a scrap buster block each month. On the AccuQuilt Australia blog, I shared different quilt layout options for each block to provide inspiration for how you could make a quilt from just the one block pattern – check those out here. But if you were sewing along to make a sampler quilt like me…… Read More
It’s time for the next quilt block tutorial of Scrap Buster Blocks! This series features a different scrap-friendly quilt block tutorial every month that will help you use up your scraps and make some fun quilts along the way. QUILT BLOCK TUTORIAL Right here on my website, you’ll find the rotary cut instructions for making the 12″ quilt block (finished). If… Read More
Welcome to the fourth quilt block tutorial of Scrap Buster Blocks! This series features a different scrap-friendly quilt block tutorial every month that will help you use up your scraps and make some fun quilts along the way. QUILT BLOCK TUTORIAL Right here on my website, you’ll find the rotary cut instructions for making the 12″ quilt block (finished). If… Read More
Welcome to the third quilt block tutorial of Scrap Buster Blocks! This series features a different scrap-friendly quilt block tutorial every month that will help you use up your scraps and make some fun quilts along the way. QUILT BLOCK TUTORIAL Right here on my website, you’ll find the rotary cut instructions for making the 12″ quilt block (finished). If… Read More
Welcome to the second quilt block tutorial of Scrap Buster Blocks! This series features a different scrap-friendly quilt block tutorial every month that will help you use up your scraps and make some fun quilts along the way. QUILT BLOCK TUTORIAL Right here on my website, you’ll find the rotary cut instructions for making the 12″ quilt block (finished). If… Read More
I don’t know about you, my scraps seem to multiply faster than I can use them… or give them away! (I pass on the pieces that are too small or oddly shaped to a friend who will use them!) I used to barely use my scraps because I was not a fan of the super, super scrappy look. It felt too… Read More
A few years ago, I purchased a portable design board that’s been incredibly useful to help piece quilt blocks along the way. Mine is an 18″ x 18″ design board by Bee In My Bonnet, and is batting wrapped around a lightweight board, and a “binding” in a cute denim-blue fabric. I load up my pieces of fabric in the… Read More
It’s an Aurifil-ed month around here, that’s for sure. Not only has my Mini Masterpieces thread collection launched, and I was interviewed about all things Mini Masterpieces on the Aurifil blog earlier this week, but today you can find me over on Auribuzz again as the Aurifil Designer of the Month! This year’s theme for their BOM sew along is… 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
Whether it’s because your cupboards are overflowing, you’re moving house, or you just watched Marie Kondo on Netflix and want to put that motivation to good use, there are times when we look at our fabric stashes and ponder going through it all to get rid of the pieces we don’t use, love, and/or want anymore. But it can be… Read More