Ever wondered how to sew and trim half rectangle triangle (HRT) blocks? Well you’ve come to the right place! Let me show you how I like to do them. Half Rectangle Triangles add another fun shape to your quilt designing arsenal. You can make cool, elongated diamonds and zigzags and parallelograms and…long spikey things. The …
I used my sewing machine to sew a zigzag quilt binding on my latest quilt and thought I’d write a tutorial on how I like to do it. First up let me say if you’re a perfectionist when it comes to quilting and must have everything just so, then zigzag binding is probably not for …
A Green Quilt for the 2017 Pantone Quilt Challenge (opening soon – see Bryan House Quilts and No Hats in the House for all the details). The 2017 Pantone Colour of the Year is Greenery – an insufferably cheerful shade of green. Aw, okay, I don’t mind it (much better than Marsala – 2015’s colour), …
I love a good scrappy patchwork block. They’re so satisfying – almost like getting something for nothing. This block was born out of wanting to use up some of my Friedlander scraps and two of these adorable mini-charm packs. After some playing around this layout stood out the most to me. I really love the …
I have another pattern to show you today – this one is called the Slip Stitch quilt. This fun, modern PDF quilt pattern will show you how to make: a 38″ x 52″ baby quilt, and a 57″ x 78″ lap-sized quilt. Slip Stitch is a great stash buster, which I must admit was the primary …
Wahoo, I have a new quilt pattern available today! If you’re signed up to my email list, you’ve already heard about this. For those who aren’t (why not? Come on and join the crew!) I’m happy to present to you the Deco Diamonds quilt pattern. I describe it as a modern quilt with a touch of …
A while back I bought myself a copy of Anna’s (Noodlehead blog) Compass Bag, purchased some sexy bag hardware and then….did nothing. It took Sarah Golden’s beautiful Maker Maker fabric collection for Andover to remind me of the pattern and put me back on track. Maker Maker is a linen/cotton blend, often referred to as home-dec …
Bonjour Quilts made an appearance in two quilting magazines this month past – Quilters Companion (Australian mag) and Love Patchwork and Quilting (UK mag). It’s always exciting to see your project appear in a magazine. Firstly, because there you are – in one of the magazines you know so well! It’s very gratifying, no doubt …
Today I have a fun FQ friendly baby quilt pattern for you. I’ll show you what I made and then take you through the steps so you can sew your own version of this happy little quilted baby mat. If you’d prefer to have the pattern as a PDF you can purchase the full pattern …
Well hello there! We’re getting to the business end of the Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Sew Along – not many blocks left now. This is my last tutorial for the series. For all the background information on this Sew Along, head over to Angie’s (GnomeAngel). For the Marti Michell Conversion Chart for this block, head over to …
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