Modern quilt teacher and patterns
This week, I have been the Creative Spark maker for the Quilt Design A Day group. This means that I took a photo, used the Palette Builder by Play-Crafts to create a colour palette, and shared it in the group each day for the other members to use the photo and colours as inspiration for a quilt design. I used… Read More
On April 30, I decided to do an experiment for my blog to find out just how many people clicked through from Instagram. Why? Because there’s no way to track click-throughs from the blog link in your profile. Instead, it just gets lumped in to the social media referral category in general. To combat this, I created an Instagram landing… Read More
Heeeeey, so yeah, last week’s post, huh? I was too busy doing this… … to get to Sew Cute Tuesday, after having gotten all those HST maths and tutorial posts done. Sorry ’bout that! But we’re back in business this week, so let’s link it up! Aaaaand, it’s the first link up of the month, so that means it’s special… Read More
Heeey, it’s June and we’re doing some more triangles! The Bunting block was one of the very first designs I ever sketched for this whole awesome-repeat block concept, with visions of a sweet little cot quilt filling my mind. I mean, just look at it! And guess what, it’s full of triangles, but only 4 HSTs! I can hear you… Read More
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re having a look at a few different ways to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy! Today we’re looking at HST triangle papers – this is the best, most accurate… Read More
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re having a look at a few different ways to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy! Today we’re stripping down to work with strips of fabric to create half square… Read More
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re looking at a few different ways to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy! On Monday, we had a quick recap of how to create the standard and alternate half… Read More
Half square triangles are incredibly popular blocks in quilting, as you have seen in The Bee Hive! This week, we’re going to have a look at a few different HST tutorials (and the maths formula!) to make half square triangles, or HSTs, to help you improve your skills, your confidence and your accuracy.That way you can choose which method will… Read More
As you read earlier this week for my Blogger’s Quilt Festival post, my Happy Star quilt was made for the Schnitzel & Boo mini quilt swap earlier this year. And now, it’s available as a pattern for you all to make too! It is a paper piecing pattern that would suit a confident beginner, which means that even if you’ve… Read More
For my second entry to the Blogger’s Quilt Festival, I’m entering my Happy Star mini quilt. I made the Happy Star mini quilt for the last Schnitzel & Boo mini quilt swap on Instagram for @happypigeon – whom I even got to meet at QuiltCon! – and was inspired by a photo she shared on her Instagram during the swap:… Read More