Once I had drawn it I laid it down over the quilt - nope. quilt or do an online workshop or something, and there is nothing worse than going back to write a pattern

​Once upon a time when I owned a quilt shop, (15 years ago now since I left Material Obsession - omg, She doesn't like to follow a pattern (particularly not my patterns, she says they're much too detailed a fair few of my BOM quilts, and she has nearly finished Down the Rabbit Hole.  There's some of my own fabrics in there - ones I designed for Windham and Lecien. We both had some laughs and a trip down memory lane playing Where's Wally with it. 

sides of the centre first, I sewed to top and bottom first with my feature colour (labelled pink in the pattern To piece these blocks more speedily, first sew the top and bottom squares onto the centre (in the pattern Next, cut the first set of strips for the second colour (white in the pattern), and stitch them to the

No pattern, no stress, just making. gold squares, getting wider as they went along, and I started at the shorter end of the quilt for my own Anyway, all that to say that I wanted to go down to the Canberra show for a few reasons! heartfelt speech this morning, sharing her experiences with sewing and even bringing a quilt from her own

Hi Smites Things are settling down again here... things on the Charlie end are still not wonderful as unless you say otherwise and don't want it hahaha not everyone it interested in Queen Mary's skirt patterns

that I wanted to make the Little Elves (https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/927597223/little-elves-pdf-pattern-hand-sewn-wool I made three sets of Santa (https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/733225139/santa-claus-pdf-pattern-a-hand-sewn-wool The patterns for the MMMCrafts ornaments are only available as PDF downloads from her Etsy store (https if you call or email her (https://stitchshop.com.au/), which includes everything you need except the pattern including all the little fiddly bits and pieces, and the preprinted Solvy sheets which have all the pattern

Anyhoo, all this tomato talk made me think we should make one of our own. So here’s the pattern - no silly strawberries to distract us though, just a good sturdy tomato full of Take the stitch length on your sewing machine down a bit so that the walnut shells don’t come out the Push the toy fill down into the curved bits of the tomato to make it sit nicely. Tie a knot in some thick thread and go down into the tomato through the point where the seams meet at

away on the final post for the Courting Sew Along, our colour class to start next week, the Big Woods pattern I will read more of the books in the series for sure. and I'm just finishing off How to Solve Your Own A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. It’s a lovely size to fit everything for a handwork project, and the pattern includes a matching needle Netherlands and Germany in October, and again at Road to California in January 2025, I will release the pattern

I know I said there were new Sarah Fielke patterns too, but sometimes you have to get done what you can

saying SORRY I haven't given you a Smites post but I've been doing a few little panic pivots of my own The pattern for the quilts comes from the workbook supplied for the class - which has nearly 30 quilt patterns in it, all using a precut acrylic template set. Sisters, its available on demand at my website - except that of course you have to work out of your own

I have trouble getting her interested in sewing (I'll wear her down eventually!!) I've never done this before, and it's not Sue's pattern,  I just made it up as I went along​. Put a big ring of glue around the edge of the cardboard and press the fabric over it to glue it down. I used a book to hold it down for a few moments so its was stuck. It doesn't matter if this stays permanently, its just to make it easier to sew.

The publishers wanted to include it in the book, and although the pattern, blocks and dimensions were In the mean time though, Freddy taught a few of my quilt patterns too! As far as I was concerned, if Freddy Moran wanted to teach one of my quilt patterns then that was 100% head around the door, with her eyes twinkling behind huge red eye glasses, bangles rattling up and down encourage you to go and find out about them - they took traditional quilting and made it into their own