Modern quilt teacher and patterns
I don’t know if I’m allowed to play favourites, but it’s my blog, so I will… I love the monthly guest host posts where I get to share some incredible work from around the place, and seeing you guys loving their work and commenting too… Naw, big squishy hugs to you all for being such nice people! The 2015 Pantone… Read More
Do you have the TimeHop app? I loving having a peek back through time each day to see what happened in our family’s life over the past few years, not to mention finding little surprises like the fact that April 22 was my fifth anniversary of blogging! Five years ago, I posted my very first blog post on Blossom Heart…. Read More
Hello and welcome to Sew Cute Tuesday. I’m Wendy from Wendy’s Quilts and More and it’s my pleasure to host Sew Cute Tuesday today. I only started blogging 18 months ago, but I’ve been sewing and quilting for much longer than that. Work-wise I studied Commerce at Auckland University and became an accountant, but I ended up in software development… Read More
Hi all! It’s Christa here from Christa Quilts and I’m delighted to share my 12″ finished block for The Bee Hive with you today! It’s called Double Star and looks equally striking in black and white or color. Here’s what the quilt layout looks like when the block is repeated. I just love the secondary pattern of stars and diamonds… Read More
Hey guys! Welcome back to Sew Cute Tuesday, the cutest Tuesday around! Spring has taken a little bit of a regressive turn around here – last Wednesday we had snow for goodness sake! Snow. In April. In Tokyo. After practically nil all winter! So checking out your floral bonus post offerings was exactly what was needed. Soma shared this beautiful… Read More
You guys have been so busy making Bee Hive blocks and sharing on Instagram on #thebeehivequilts feed! I will regularly be sharing blocks and quilts from the #thebeehivequilts hashtag feed on Instagram that you guys have been sharing so that you can see the different ways people interpret quilts blocks from The Bee Hive. Today, I’m sharing your work making… Read More
I’ve been having a play with my sketchbook this week, thinking about what kind of free motion quilting designs I want to use to fill in my Swarm quilt. I’ve been rewatching the range of free motion quilting classes on Craftsy that I’ve signed up for over the past 2 years, and gathering some ideas. When I thought I’d finished… Read More
I joined the Quilt Design A Day group on Facebook in February, having been inspired to design just for the sake of designing and creating (and building up my EQ7 muscles!). Each week, a member is in charge of posting “sparks” – a photo they’ve taken and then pulled some of the colours out to make a palette. Everyone else… Read More
Hello guys! Welcome back to Sew Cute Tuesday, the part of the show where you guys show off your awesomeness and we get to check out the eye candy. I’ve got basset hounds on my mind this week, with my basset-hound-owning in-laws arriving tomorrow night for 3 weeks, yippee! We love having family visiting us here in Japan, and we’ve… Read More
I’m going to admit now that it was a conscious challenge to not do all my designs for The Bee Hive to be playing with flying geese and half-square triangles! But Spinwheel was much too fun to not include in this series. It uses one 6″ unit rotated four times to make up the 12″ block, which when put into… Read More