Hello, and welcome to my stop on the Farmer’s Wife 1930s Sampler Quilt Sew Along! Today I am making block #56 – Marcella. 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 Marti’s blog. This Sew Along is …
Today I have a free pattern for you – to sew this rainbow patchwork purse. Firstly, how adorable is the packaging for the 10 piece Crayola FQ set? When I received this little box of sunshine in the mail I had a lot of fun arranging the colours in rainbow order: Then I knuckled down …
I have a new pattern to show you today: The Fleur quilt. Well, two patterns really – the queen sized version and the mini quilt version. Let’s start big and then go small: The Fleur quilt is a queen sized, 84″ x 84″ quilt that is made with 9 super sized (28″ square) flower blocks. …
Happy weekend, everyone! Have you heard about May is for Makers? You can check out where it all began (with this post by Lindsay), but in a nutshell it’s about celebrating and supporting small business pattern makers. There are a lot of awesome, free patterns on line these days – I have benefitted from them …
In the meantime, to make a The Plus Side quilt of your own, you can find the pattern here. Today I have a fun quilt that I made using my The Plus Side quilt pattern (which can be purchased here). The thing I like the most about this pattern is the diagonal line across the …
My Go West pattern has been out for a while, and every now and then I get an email asking me how to make it bigger. The quilt pattern can be made in three sizes: baby mat, lap and twin. I didn’t create a queen version for it because it didn’t size out so well, …
This quilt. Ayyyyyye, this quilt. What a nightmare. This quilt took me over 2 years to make. I had a plan. I bought the fabric. I changed the plan. I cut the fabric. I changed the plan. I panicked and put it all away in a cupboard. I had another plan. I sewed the fabric. …
Hello – I hope you are all enjoying a peaceful weekend with friends and family. I realised I have a small cache of projects from the past few months that I haven’t shown you, so here we go! Firstly, there were a few new handmade cushion covers: Both of these gorgeous printed panels are from …
QuiltCon accepted two of my quilts this year; a privilege given the volume of quilts submitted. One of the accepted quilts is my Rainbow Plus quilt (from this pattern): The other quilt is a version of my Diamonds in the Deep pattern. You might remember this version I created in navy: I’d wanted to sew …
Just popping in to let you know that my Diamonds in the Deep pattern is now available in paper form! You can buy a single copy for yourself, retail, through the pattern shop. This is great news for anyone in the EU who hasn’t been able to buy my PDF patterns (silly VAT laws). If …
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