Blossom Heart Quilts

WIP: That Time Of The Month

… The busy, getting-bees-and-BOMs-and-QALs-done-before-the-end-of-the-month time of the month! Especially given the wet and windy weather here this week. Perfect for bunkering down for sewing! This is the first of 4 butterfly blocks for QCA Bee #5. Tracy has asked for 6″ finished butterfly blocks to make a quilt for her daughter. She will be embroidering different uplifting words and phrases… Read More

Enter All The Competitions!

With a bad cold knocking me flat over the past few days (and still going strong), energy to do anything other than sitting has been sorely lacking. But it’s meant I have had the time to enter a few competitions on the webz! First up being the Briar Rose competition on Threadbias – this is my quilt design entitled ‘Woven… Read More

Shop Updates – New Stock and Exciting Pattern News!

I’ve been busy updating the shop again – I’m trying to add more stock more regularly whenever I get the chance to go shopping! I have one more Sakura (cherry blossom) fat eighth bundle, plus a few individual prints too. Plus this delicious new Lecien text print featuring cake recipes and news articles! There’s only a week left to get… Read More

Gettin’ Bloggy With It: Pin It Photo Hover Button

If you’re reading my blog, and come to a picture you really like, you can now hover your mouse over it and a Pin It button will pop up! This photo hover Pin It button tutorial is the one I used for Blogger – you can choose your own picture, your own position, and yes, it takes some HTML fiddling,… Read More

Thanks and MORE BOMs!

Firstly, thank you so much for your kind words and much encouragement on my FMQ struggles post yesterday! A pair of gloves is definitely on my get-very-soon list, and hopefully my clever husband can work out some kind of improvisational platform or such in the place of an extension table – my basic Elna is too basic for an “official”… Read More

Good Fortune: Block 1 – The…. Bad and the Ugly

Oh wow. Free motion quilting a big quilt is hard work! I have a small machine, no extension table, not set into the table, nothing. The drag as I’m sewing! I also need to get some gloves as I feel totally out of control. As is clearly evident in the above pictures. I seriously nearly didn’t post these pictures… Read More

WIP: Good Fortune Is Go!

Good Fortune quilting progress front by SewBlossomHeart, on Flickr Yes ladies and gentleman, after well over a year, my Good Fortune quilt is finally on the home stretch! I’ve finished all the straight line quilting – I’ve outlined the blocks to both stabilise for FMQ and also as inspired by shoji screens. You see, my plan is to fill in… Read More

{By You} – Pretty Zipper Pouch

Marsha made this beautiful zippered pouch from scratch. As in, she designed and printed the fabric! She did some beautiful quilting to highlight the stars, then used my pretty zipper ends tutorial to construct it into a zippered pouch. Isn’t it gorgeous?! Go check it out on Flickr to see all the detail properly! If you’ve made something from my… Read More

Le Challenge: Geometrics

It’s time to link for the first Le Challenge! I love this idea – link up anything created in any medium to do with the theme. This month, it was Geometrics. I love geometric patterns – the clean lines soothe my creative soul! This month I doubled up with making an angel pouch for the Sweet Pouch Swap – apologies… Read More

Sunday Stash: Books and Bobs

I have very few quilt books. This is in part due to the awareness that in 2 years time we will be packing and moving internationally again, and I am conscious of weight/space/cost limitations! But this week saw 2 new books arrive – Modern Blocks and Patchwork, Please! I appear to have snatched up the last signed copy Ayumi had… Read More