Modern quilt teacher and patterns
A few online quilting buddies and I were having a little moan about lack of sewjo and/or general motivation, when I was ironically hit with 2 important deadlines for the end of the month. That certainly provides a kick in the now-thread-covered pants to get back onto the machine! Not to mention getting this month’s Japanese Colour Club bundles out…. Read More
It seems that the Pantone Quilt Challenge really did bring around spring, at least, here in Japan it has! My Instagram feed will have one American celebrating beautiful spring weather with the next complaining of yet more snow… hopefully spring spreads wide this week! Talking of the Pantone Quilt Challenge, this week also brought my Bright Sky quilt reveal and… Read More
For each of my patterns, I have a pool of pattern testers working hard to iron out all the wrinkles in the pattern. They certainly earned their keep helping out with improving the math and techniques in this quilt – no half-sqaure or quarter-square triangle piecing makes for a great quilt top and some fine math work. You’ve seen my… Read More
I’m so thrilled to finally share my latest quilt finish – Bright Sky! This quilt has been quite the creative journey, beginning late last year with three catalysts: – my desire to make a big one-block star quilt – my desire to enter the Pantone Quilt Challenge (now open!) – an email asking if a block pattern in Fat Quarterly… Read More
Dear fellow northern-hemisphereans, does anyone else feel like maybe spring is coming? Here in Japan we’re starting to get just a liiiitle bit warmer, and I can see on Instagram that the sun is starting to make his appearance on the other continents too. I think it’s very poignant that this Friday is the beginning of the Pantone Quilt Challenge… Read More
No matter how adept and efficient I get at sewing or how much better my 1/4″ seam gets, I still have to refer back to some tutorials or information a lot of the time. And that includes the ones I’ve written myself, too! These are the three tutorials I keep coming back to regularly, some a little embarrassingly so… Making… Read More
This has been the state of my sewing desk this week, as I’ve slowly plodded through Gemma’s New York Beauty block for Wombat Stew (February… not that anyone’s keep count?!). Thankfully each arc is easily chain pieced, and I even tested out sewing a centre segment to the first arc with much success! The pink and yellow arcs are nice… Read More
I am the worst procrastinator, so of course I finally started my quilt for the Lala Salama 100 Quilts For Kenya project last week. I had already made a plan, but only began cutting last week. Friday saw the first half laid out on an improvised design wall (aka a big piece of batting hanging from skirt hangers), Sunday saw… Read More
Happy Tuesday! Connie made this beautiful spring pillow – it’s been a long, cold winter everywhere it seems, and this is certainly a happy reminder of what is hopefully just around the corner! Jo shared her newly-tidied up craft room, and you know how much a sucker I am for checking out where other people sew! And Lorna finished this… Read More
Now, we all love our notions fairly equally. Rulers, rotary cutters, little gadgets and gizmos, everything that helps make our sewing just that little bit easier that we can’t really narrow down to just a select few favourites. So I’ve cheated a little and narrowed it down to my favourite brand, because it appears I am partial to the Clover… Read More