Modern quilt teacher and patterns
There’s nothing like making your own cloth napkins from gorgeous fabric! Especially when they’re super easy fat quarter napkins. There are times when Spotlight (our big box craft store here in Australia) will pleasantly surprise you with their fabric options. It started with finding some of Jocelyn Proust’s adorable Christmas-ified Aussie animal prints of which I picked up a few,… 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
Knowing how to baste a quilt is an important step in the quilting process. But unlike roasting Thanksgiving or Christmas turkeys, there’s no meat juices involved, just some tape and curved safety pins or basting spray! Basting is what the process is called when you layer a quilt top with batting and backing fabric (affectionately referred to as a quilt… Read More
For the next year, the team at Blessington, the Australian distributors for Pfaff, AccuQuilt, Singer, Husqvarna Viking, and Handiquilter, are supporting the McGrath Foundation. As October is also Breast Cancer Awareness month, they asked the brand ambassadors to come up with a pink project to share as a tutorial, with the aim that you guys would consider making one to donate… Read More
Lately I’ve been having a bit of a love affair with the humble economy block. They’re fun to fussy cut, quick to piece, and look pretty darn adorable! These little blocks are 4″ finished (4 1/2″ unfinished) and perfectly frame the fussy cut square in the middle. I went for a 4″ finished (4.5″ unfinished) block as it allowed me… Read More
In my pursuit of handmade this year, I jumped at the chance to sew some blocks from the Dutch Tulips pattern by Fat Quarter Shop. It’s such a fantastic block that whips up in no time, and not only looks great, but allows for some super fun colour play too. I made three blocks, as I will turn them into a table runner ready… Read More
Foundation paper piecing is an invaluable skill! Yes, it takes a little bit of mental acrobatics trying to wrap your brain around how it all works, but the great thing about learning how to foundation paper piece is that once you’ve learnt the basic technique, it’s the same for every single pattern. It’s just that taking that first step can be a… Read More
When you have a pile of sampler quilt blocks from a project that you don’t know what to do with, it can be hard to know where to start when it comes to finishing it off. You could easily add some sashing and call it done, but sometimes you want to make the quilt top a bit bigger but without making more… Read More
Over the past year or so, I’ve had the privilege of (very slowly!) sewing along with The Farmer’s Wife 1930s quilt along as an official blogger. As a part of that, I also wielded my Marti Michell templates for good, sharing a mini quilt tutorial to show you how to use the templates in some other ways. And so did 12… Read More
When I agreed to help sew and blog along with the Farmer’s Wife 1930 Quilt Along, aka The Project That Shall Not Be Named ahem, one of the bonus perks that came out of it was receiving the From Marti Michell templates that would help make the blocks. So when Angie suggested the Marti Michell Mini Quilt Mania, of course I had… Read More