Modern quilt teacher and patterns
UPDATE 2021: Most of these patterns have been discontinued – you can read why here. The cherry blossom block has been renamed to Blossom and you can find it here. However, I have left this post as-is so as to not erase my mistakes but to show how you can change and grow as a person. During cherry blossom season… Read More
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the Instagram quilting community, then chances are you will have heard about destashing fabric on Instagram. It’s a great platform to reach an interested market – if people (followers) like your quilting, chances are they will be interested in buying the fabric that you use in your quilting! Having held a few… Read More
Hello, March! And hello row three of the Sunset Isle quilt. There were lots of flying geese popping up in the Sunset Isle Facebook group and on Instagram on #sunsetislequilt (see below), with one great option emerging of some people rotating half of the blocks to face the opposite way, rather than all going the same way. Clever! MONTH 3 The third… Read More
I’m not sure where I last left off sharing my quilting bee blocks for my bee, Miss B Haven, but I’m here today with the blocks from December and January! For December, Alison chose the Treasure Hunt block and asked for scrappy low volume with one strip of a dusty colour per quadrant. We’ve all been drooling over how calm and… Read More
Every crafting and sewing store are full of amazing notions to make your creative life a little easier, or more fun/efficient/colourful. But some of the things you find in my desk drawers and on my cutting table aren’t going to be in your local quilt shop or big box store! However, they are there for a reason, and are often… 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
Today is Feburary 1, and that means it’s time for month 2 of Sunset Isle! How did you go with month one? I’ve seen so many stunning blocks popping up in the Sunset Isle Facebook group and on Instagram on #sunsetislequilt (see below), it makes me so happy to see you taking the pattern and making it your own with how… Read More
What a great way to start the new month than with getting to share about the new book by my friend and fellow Aussie quilt designer, Jemima Flendt from Tied With A Ribbon. Her second book, Quilt Big, is all about supersizing quilt blocks for faster finishes… with style! The photography in this book is just stunning. When I first… Read More
Block 5 for the Stellar BOM is now out! This one uses squares, small and large HSTs, and quarter-square triangles to create a different look of a sawtooth star block. Click here for the tutorial at AccuQuilt Australia Did you know that there’s an AccuQuilt Addicts group on Facebook? AccuQuilt Australia run it and are actively involved, it’s great!
The latest issue of Make Modern is now out! Inside issue 26, you can find my regular Maths & Methods article, this time talking all about fat quarters, what you can squeeze from them, and how we all love a fat quarter friendly quilt pattern, like Geode. You can also find an interview with me all about how I set up… Read More