Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Early last year, I was a part of my guild’s Liberty quilting bee. There were six of us, so it ran for six months and each month we made two blocks for the queen, and all our blocks were to be made predominantly with Liberty fabric. Fun! One huge reason I love Liberty fabric is the fussy cutting potential. There… Read More
Sew away into the sunset with the Sunset Isle quilt pattern – a row-of-the-month program designed by me in collaboration with Ava & Neve. Inspired by Fair Isle designs with a dash of south American geometric, Sunset Isle is a beginner-friendly skill builder pattern, with plenty of opportunity for playing with colour with your fabrics! I simply adore geometric quilt… Read More
The Aussie quilting industry keeps popping out fabulous new books! Today I get to share Zakka Home, the second book by Sedef Imer from Down Grapevine Lane, and as you’d expect from her, it’s just gorgeous! Inside, you’ll find 19 projects, ranging from sashiko coasters to tea towels to cushions to quilts. I love the variety of projects to choose from!… Read More
This year, I have heard a few bits and pieces about wool ironing mats – these squishy, felted wool mats that supposedly are more efficient at pressing your fabric and sewing as the wool retains the heat so it presses from the top and bottom in one go. I’m not going to lie, I kinda gave them an eye squint… Read More
I am so incredibly chuffed with how my Pollinate quilt is coming along. It’s definitely one of those projects where I had a spark of inspiration as to how I wanted the quilt to look, but have had my fingers crossed the whole time I’ve been stitching, hoping that it’s going to turn out like what I had planned. And… Read More
Have you ever wanted to join a quilting bee? Now’s your chance! If you don’t know what a quilting bee is, well, let me quickly help you with that. ***SIGN UPS ARE CLOSED FOR THIS YEAR*** A quilting bee is a group of 12 quilters who take turns to be Queen Bee every month. As Queen Bee, you get to choose… Read More
The pattern for the second quilt block for the Stellar BOM is now out! This one is a fun, basic sawtooth star quilt block, and is open for plenty of fun opportunities. My version continues my monochromatic scrappy prints and solids combo. Download the pattern from AccuQuilt Australia here But you could quite easily fussy cut something for that centre square,… Read More
Last weekend, in celebration of my new mini quilt patterns – Little Liberties – I put up a poll on Instagram about Cinque Terre, asking if people would make a mini or make more blocks and make it bigger. One person commented, kindly enough, that she’d make more blocks to make a quilt you can actually use because what’s the… Read More
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen… nope, can’t think of anything to rhyme with cushions! That little variation of the song has been going through my head this week as I was stitching up a sweet little cushion. The fabulous quilting magazine, Love Patchwork & Quilting, are hosting a Gingerbread House quilt along to sew up the Gingerbread House quilt… Read More
Hands up who else is feeling the rapid increase of time lately?! And no, I’m not talking about the new season of Doctor Who starting (although, how awesome was that first episode?! I’m excited about where this season is heading!). Which is why I’m secretly a little chuffed that I’ve already sewn up this month’s blocks for the Aurora BOM…. Read More