I made this mini quilt for the MQG Mini Swap this year. I was paired with Velda who likes bright jewel tone fabrics and low volume backgrounds. I can show it now because I know she has received it! I wanted to try something like a New York Beauty...
It only took three weeks from start to finish, I dropped everything and made my latest animal portrait, Potato Hank. Here is the original photo it is based on, Hank in his tightest curled up potato-pose: It’s made with my usual technique but the edges are bound with double...
I’ve had a few people ask for patterns to be released that didn’t make it into my book, and I’m trying to see what to add to my shop next. I know I’m not sure quick at releasing online patterns What do you think – the Himalayan cat pillow...
I was on the Pat Sloan American Patchwork and Quilting Podcast this week! Did you listen in? Let me know what you thought. I was a bit nervous but that wavering in my voice at the start can be put down to the phone connection, right? I’m very happy...
I’m not one for resolutions, or words to live a year by, but I know it works great for others. This year already however, it seems things have kind of organically gone that way for me. My day job is as a graphic designer – I get paid well...
I had two targets for Q4 of 2018 and I achieved them both! So it’s time to set goals again. I’m in a real applique mood, so it could be the time I get the Quilt Workout Applique pattern done. It’s been a couple of years before I’ve even...
Happy New Year! While browsing through Google Drive for pictures for my last post, I came across photos of my woven cushion and realised that I hadn’t shared that project here! It was some months ago that I made this, but it came out so well, and lives on...
This is a 3-parter about the quilts and projects I made for Paint By Number Quilts, so I can share those projects made way back in 2016 that I couldn’t put on my blog at the time. This is part 3 – the projects in the book. As mentioned...
I designed this quilt after we came back from the Okanagan Valley at the end of the summer. Every four years, there is a “dominant run”, where the sockeye salmon that swim upstream are expected to be in their thousands and effectively turn the streams and rivers red. 2018...
Opening image is a quilt by Catherine Croucher. Originally published in Popular Patchwork in 2015, I thought this was still relevant today, the day when many people find out if they’ve been accepted into Quiltcon or not. There’s been a lot of noise lately about ‘modern quilting’ as a...