One of my favourite quilts is my 'Divided Blooms' quilt. I needed to make another sample quilt because I am teaching this quilt in various shops around Melbourne. I chose florals from Art Gallery fabrics, aren't they just beautiful? I always, always use the fabric swatch table in the pattern to decide which fabrics I will use for each flower. Naturally my cat decided to sit right in … [Read more...]
Dresden Plate – Curved Tipped
In the 'Modern Mandala' and the 'Radiating Circles' patterns there are instructions for a 20 blade, 14 inch dresden plate, so I thought I would do a quick photo tutorial as an extra resource. In the shop section of the website you will find a written tutorial and template for the dresden that you can download for free. 1. Make the template out of template plastic or thick card. 2. … [Read more...]
Dresden Plate – Pointy Tipped
In the 'Modern Mandala' and the 'Radiating Circles' patterns there are instructions for a 20 blade, 14 inch dresden plate, so I thought I would do a quick photo tutorial as an extra resource. In the shop section of the website you will find a written tutorial and template for the dresden that you can download for free. 1. Make the template out of template plastic or thick … [Read more...]
Calippo Quilt
*********** Calippo quilt Pattern is available in my 'Shop' *********** My latest quilt pattern is an easy strip quilt. The key to this quilt is the fabric selection of light, medium and dark fabrics. In this quilt I have used blenders but don't be limited by this selection. This quilt would look amazing in florals, solids and even christmas fabric. I plan to make it in a few more … [Read more...]
Spring mischief ‘Flowering wreath’ quilt
******** This Flowering Wreath Pattern is available in my 'Shop' *********** When I was approached by Ella Blue Fabrics to make a 'Flowering Wreath' quilt from the latest fabric collection by Leanne Beasley of Leanneshouse called 'Spring Mischief', I thought it was a match made in heaven. I only had ten days to make, quilt and bind the quilt so it could be shipped to Houston for Quilt … [Read more...]
Emma’s pickled orange peel quilt.
What a fantastic opportunity to get to quilt this amazing paper pieced quilt. This is an updated pattern by Emma Jean Jansen soon to be released on her website www.emmajeanjansen.com.au I chose a really neutral thread to quilt this one so the quilting would not compete with the quilts fabrics. Yes … [Read more...]
Kate’s forest friends quilt
I love this quilt and it was such a pleasure to quilt such a perfectly pieced masterpiece. Kate chose the kindling pantograph it looked fantastic quilted. … [Read more...]
Modern Mandala Quilt
****** Pattern now available in shop******* I was lucky enough to have these fabulous colour saturated Me+you batiks from Hoffman Fabrics to create this quilt. These batiks are perfect for a raw edge quilt. This design called for lots of little pieces of applique. I lay the pieces onto the quilt top, to check the colours and shapes were balanced. I matched all of the thread … [Read more...]
Divided Blooms Quilt
******* This Divided Blooms Pattern is available in my 'shop' ********* I was lucky enough to be able to design this quilt with the beautiful Lecien Memoire a Paris fabric range. I used a fat quarter bundle of the collection which was perfect! (see below for a full product code description of all fabric used in this quilt.) The fabrics are a beautiful soft lawn and in the most gorgeous … [Read more...]
Tula Pinks City Sampler
The 100 Modern Quilt Blocks is such a challenge but I decided not to stress about a block each day just enjoy making the blocks when I could. The combination of the linen, memoire a Paris range and the island style fabric was just right for the pretty romantic style quilt I had in mind. Just to make things confusing I started at block 80. … [Read more...]
Circling circles quilt – Alison Glass Fabric
I knew I wanted to do a quilt filled with circles but finding a workable design was harder than I thought. I tried out lots of different designs until I finally settled on this one, what do you think? … [Read more...]
Circling circles quilt – geodes fabric
This fabric is amazing and I thought it would be perfect for a different colourway for my circles quilt. lots of applique circles. The Dresden Plate for the middle was a perfect choice. A cool side and a warm side was my fabric colour choice. My cat likes it too! And a beautiful colourful pieced back. Keep an eye on my Instagram account for updates on the … [Read more...]
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