Modern quilt teacher and patterns
Last year I had this wild idea. I was involved in 2 “normal” stash quilting bees, making a block each month for the queen bee according to their colour and pattern desires. Some months it was a lot of fun or they challenged me to grow as a quilter – like sewing my first curves. Other months, it was a… Read More
There hasn’t been much sewing this week, so much as snowing and the resulting requisite snow playing! Tokyo and surrounding areas received an almost 50-year record snow fall, with our place receiving over a foot of snow. Apparently it was essentially a “snow typhoon”! Sunday morning was spent outside with all the neighbours shovelling snow while the kids exchanged snow… Read More
Do you know what’s really hard to find? True light blue fabric. Aqua/light teal/turquoise abounds in the fabric world, but a true light blue? A sky blue? Very hard to find! As you can see, my stash is in colour order, and includes yellow green, blue green, and kinda sort light blue piles. But honestly, out of all of those,… Read More
This week I’ve finished up a new quilt top, that will soon be winging it’s way to a longarm quilter, just as soon as I’ve decided how to back it! This is the first time I’ve sent a quilt top to a longarmer, and gosh, I actually feel rather nervous! Are my seams straight enough? Flat enough? Is my quilt… Read More
When THIS happens*, you know it’s time to take a break from the machine and do something else for a change. Like pull fabric for a new quilt bee for the year. And wonder why my iPhone camera doesn’t like photographing fabric every now and then despite angling the phone/fabric/light different ways to fix it (see the lines on the… Read More
There’s something about the Fabric Fast that has really focused my attention on making lists and ticking them off, slowly working on all my sewing tasks. Last month I got everything done except for my Wombat Stew block… oops! Thankfully Fiona is very forgiving, as are all the girls. This month, besides bee blocks, I need to get a second… Read More
I’ve hit the sewing machine this week, working on my Pantone Quilt Challenge project. It was hard to keep motivation up after realising my error-but-not-an-error, but I pushed through with big doses of Pinterest procrastination and finished the top on Sunday! Now I need to work out the backing – I think I might use the extra triangles somehow. Now… Read More
Growing up, I knew what/who Forbes was. My dad was a fan of reading their magazines and checking out all their “must watch” and “biggest success” lists each year. And now, I see that Craftsy has hit their radar! Something that I was a part of from early on, something I have seen grow and grow in success, well, I… Read More
I’m impressed that I lasted a whole month before begrudging the fabric fast in a serious manner. Yesterday I sat down to finish off my Pantone Quilt Challenge top, only to think that I had made a math error with my already-cut purple fabrics and thus recut more. Only to then realise that I hadn’t made a math error. And… Read More
Aubrey and her team at Southern Fabric have some exciting things planned for this year! And it’s starting with same great clearance sales, including 50% off some great ranges including Barcelona by Zen Chic. Color Me Happy precuts have recently arrived. Hopefully when my fabric fast is over I can snatch up a layer cake of this – my Simply… Read More