Blossom Heart Quilts

What’s The Dealio With American Postage?

That sound you can hear? Quilters and sewists and fabric lovers around the world weeping at the sudden, drastic increase of USPS prices for international shipping from America! Canadian flat rate shipping is now $20 and international is $23.95. Sure I have access to fantastic Japanese fabrics locally, but I still need my American fabric fixes! And unfortunately, I don’t… Read More

Sunday Stash: Fat Quarter and More

A couple of months ago I won a $100 voucher to the Fat Quarter Shop from the Know Thy Machine blog hop at 13 Woodhouse Road. After just a little squealing I window shopped. And window shopped. And window shopped a little more. After Christmas, I finally pulled the trigger and went practical. Fat Quarter Shop goodies by SewBlossomHeart, on… Read More

Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2013

January 26 – Australia Day. Normally spent eating BBQs and pavlovas and meat pies. But this year? What better way to spend it than at the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival 2013 with Danielle, a new friend from Western Australia! Note – most of the name plates were solely in Japanese but I’ve named the quilt and quilter where I… Read More

TGIFF: The Quiet Play Edition

The other day I shared my January bees and BOMs progress, but I kept one especially for today – my And Sew On… January block. Measure Twice – And Sew On: January by SewBlossomHeart, on Flickr This is such a quick and easy pattern! All one section and perfect for a paper piecing beginner. I adapted it slightly to fit… Read More

Bees and BOMs: January

2012 FQS Designer Mystery BOM Block 5 by SewBlossomHeart, on Flickr Part of my 1st quarter FAL list was to catch up and keep up on my BOMs. I just received Block 8 for the 2012 Fat Quarter Shop Designer Mystery BOM and I was still only halfway through Block 5! But I’m proud to announce that I’m halfway to… Read More

BHQ Wants YOU!

Yes sir! As long-time readers are aware, I’m headed back to the Land of Oz next month to view my newly-born niece or nephew and to snuggle said newborn in two or three quilts I have made recently. I’m gone for 3 weeks, and while I will have scheduled in a post or two, especially the Grand Reveal of the… Read More

Sunday Stash: A Kate Spain Christmas!

Kate Spain mail by SewBlossomHeart, on Flickr Last year, Kristy and I hosted Sew Seasonal, and we asked Kate Spain to guest judge for us as the grand prize was a fat quarter bundle of Joy from The Intrepid Thread. Afterwards, Kate asked me for our addresses so that she could send us a little thank you for involving her…. Read More

Gettin’ Bloggy With It: How To Easily Send Guest Posts

If you ever get asked to guest post on someone else’s blog, and that might be some of you soon… stay posted for that!… it can be tricky to send everything to the blogger. If you’ve ever tried to copy and paste text from a Word document into a blog post, you’ll know what I mean! The formatting goes all… Read More

TGIFF: Tea For Two

I’ve had the big pattern launch plus giveaway (now closed), now for the juicy behind-the-scenes detail of the next baby quilt ticked off my FAL list! Tea For Two by SewBlossomHeart, on Flickr As I mentioned on Sunday, this pattern was inspired by a manhole cover pattern here in Chiba. Those who know me, know I love a good challenge… Read More

Emerald Bundles Voting Now Open!

Emerald Dreams by SewBlossomHeart, on Flickr I was just casually reading through my blog list in Google Reader when I opened Stitched In Color’s blog post to find that my Emerald Dreams bundle was chosen as one of the Top 10 bundles in her Emerald Bundles competition!! Excited much?!! There’s some fabulous competition, so go check it out and vote… Read More