Blossom Heart Quilts

Having A Starry Time Blog Hop Begins!

It’s time to begin the Having A Starry Time blog hop! I have shared HST tutorials and formulas sharing how to make half-square triangles the traditional and alternative methods, and the next step the Fat Quarter Shop’s Triangle Papers! These are available in a range of finished sizes from 1″ to 6″ and come on a roll, allowing you to… Read More

Sunday Stash: BUY ALL THE CRAFTSY CLASSES!

Hi, my name is Alyce, and I’m addicted to Craftsy classes… It started with the free ones, and it’s grown since then… It should come as no surprise to you that I love Craftsy. I have mentioned before that due to my living-in-another-country-that-doesn’t-speak-English status, quilting classes and groups are a little beyond me. Time-wise and language-wise! So for me, Craftsy… Read More

Gettin’ Bloggy With It: Bye Bye Google Reader

I have shared at And Sew We Craft about how to follow blogs via Feedly – a good replacement for Google Reader – and it also seems that Bloglovin is the other option people are wanting to use. I’ve now set this blog up so you can follow my blog with Bloglovin if that’s your thang – it would seem… Read More

The Naked Spartans Winner Is…

What an interesting lot of answers! I asked what is your favourite sewing notion, and the clear favourites were rotary cutters and every sewist’s love/hate relationship with the almight Jack the (seam) Ripper. Mega kudos to one lady who said her credit card was her favourite notion – high five indeed! And so, the winner of the 300 followers giveaway… Read More

I’m Cheating On You…

… But come play with me there too! I’m very excited to announce that I am now a regular contributor over at And Sew We Craft, where a bunch of us crafty creative ladies blog about what we love! I’m thrilled to be in such great company – Amy (our wise leader), Anorina, Tonya, Talia, Cate and Anne (a fellow… Read More

Let The FMQ Games Begin!

Whilst in Australia, I bought a generic FMQ foot and crossed my fingers and toes that it would fit and work on Ellie. Hallelujah it did! And thus begun a new obsession… I signed up for Leah Day’s free motion quilting class on Craftsy on a whim – it covers a range of designs and patterns for a beginner and… Read More

Having A Starry Time: A HST Stars Blog Hop

I’m super excited to annouce the Having A Starry Time blog hop! If you’ve hung around here long enough, you will know that I love using half-square triangles; my HST tutorials and formulas post is the most Pinned post from my blog! So I’m taking it the next step and have teamed up with 5 fabulous bloggers to design a… Read More

New Sponsor: Sew Lux Fabric

Chrissy and Linda are a mother-daughter team who own Sew Lux Fabric – a wonderful online store full of beautiful fabrics. And when you get a package from them, you open up your envelope to find… So pretty! Squishy mail is a present anyway, and they jazz it up so it really does feel like a present! So not only… Read More

Sunday Stash: Sweet Pouch Swap

While I was away, I both received a chunk of mail and brought home a chunk of stash. But I especially want to share this particular delivery. I had signed up for the Sweet Pouch Swap, but due to my sudden trip, I had to pull out of sending mine. I already felt guilty (and will still send something anyway!)… Read More

Name That Fabric! March Winner!

Good work to those who hunted down the name of this adorable little bunny print by Bunny Hill. The correct name is Windsor Lane Sprig Bunny Damask! Congratulations to Sandy A. who chose Windsor Lane Porcelain and Sprig Paisley as her other favourite print! I’ve emailed you Sandy to organise getting this gorgeous fabric out to you! —– If you… Read More