Heart Quilt Block Pattern

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, it must be time for a heart quilt block pattern! Although, this block isn’t strictly for Valentine’s Day – it could be used any time of the year for anyone you love. Heart quilt block patterns are an especially lovely way to welcome a new baby or celebrate …

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Flex Frame Pouch Tutorial

  Are you looking for a good way to store and organise your small quilting templates? How about a flex frame pouch? This pouch is made of both transparent vinyl and fabric. I chose vinyl because I wanted to be able to see at a glance which templates were in what pouch. I found my vinyl …

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Rectangle Log Cabin Quilt Pattern

A rectangle log cabin quilt pattern tutorial. Earlier this year, on instagram, I noticed there was a #scrappylogcabinQAL and a movement to #sewmystash2015. I had been stashing sunny yellow fabrics for almost a year to make my daughter some sort of quilt. Why not combine the two hashtags and sew my daughter a log cabin …

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DIY Halloween Treat Bags Tutorial

It’s true that Halloween isn’t that big a deal here in Australia. If anything, it’s probably been embraced more by Aussie adults than the kids – you’re much more likely to see Halloween used as an excuse for a party than see kids out Trick or Treating. Regardless, that won’t stop me sewing something up …

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Wildwood Challenge: A free baby quilt pattern

I have a fun free baby quilt pattern for you today. And bonus – it’s also a fat quarter friendly baby quilt pattern. Yay! Almost two months ago I was lucky enough to be asked by Sew Mama Sew if I’d like to contribute a project for Cloud 9 Fabrics’ soon-to-be-released fabric line, Wildwood. I …

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Lattice Love - a modern baby quilt tutorial by Kirsty of Bonjour Quilts

Lattice Love Quilt (with a little tutorial)

I guess a post on Valentine’s Day has to have love in the title somewhere, doesn’t it? Speaking of love, I made this quilt for my sister’s gorgeous baby boy. I could eat that kid’s cheeks every day of the week, he’s such a cutie. A quick discussion with my sister told me that she …

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A sewing tutorial for a vinyl pouch by Kirsty at Bonjour Quilts

Vinyl Pouch Tutorial

We have a lot of puzzles and board games and other things that live in cardboard boxes around here. The problem is that after some hard playing the boxes tend to pop their corners and get all ratty. Not to mention it gets hard to find places to store all those bulky containers. I got …

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Bonjour Quilts - Embroidery Tutorial

Scrap Love: Embroidery Tutorial

Who doesn’t love a scrappy project? Not just the look of them but also the fact you’re squeezing a little bit more life out of your much loved fabrics. (found here) (Downside: it encourages scrap hoarding. Big time.) This technique can be used with scraps of almost any size – these fabric tiles are one …

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Bonjour Quilts - Embroidery Tutorial

Liberty or Death

Don’t get those petticoats in a twist, I’m not making a political statement – just a declaration of fabric adoration. The liberty I’m talking about here is the gorgeous fabric of Liberty of London. If you’ve spent any time looking around the craft blogosphere, you’ll know that some ladies would indeed die (and maybe kill?) …

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A sewing tutorial to make a square Union Jack cushion - by Kirsty at Bonjour Quilts

Square Union Jack Patchwork Cushion

The Olympics made me do it. The Olympics and Blandina. You see, Blandina gave me a beauty of a charm square pack she’d had in her stash for many years (she bought it when she was three ;).  Laura Ashley, no less. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to make with it until I saw …

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