Remember the third request for my brother and his wife’s baby quilt? ‘Please add a Flower of Life quilting design on this baby quilt.’ Some of you may be familiar with the Flower of Life design because its use in New Age imagery this century. With the name ‘Flower of Life’ only being just over … Continue reading
How many quilt blocks can you come up with that create a zig zag? At least 3, right? Let’s look a t a few! Block 1 – HST The hardworking Half Square Triangle block. Great for working with a ombre or stripy fabric, or going scrappy ! Block 2 – Flying Geese The elegant Flying … Continue reading
In about 5 weeks or so my brother and his wife will be welcoming their first child, a baby boy. The color scheme of the baby’s bedroom is based on a soft minty color that has a grey undertone. They gave me a color swatch in the form of a the paint stick they had … Continue reading
Yay, it is finally time to RELEASE the Spool Star quilt pattern! Have you already been gathering your favorite scraps? Yesterday I showed you the dark SNOW version of this wall hanging pattern. But other layouts are also possible with this little block that has found its way into my heart. 😉 An apple for … Continue reading
Just a few days ago I announced that the Spool Star quilt pattern will be released on 3 November 2021. That is TOMORROW! I wanted to take the time today to give you some information on the pattern and answer the questions that I received. The foundation paper piecing pattern for this wall hanging provides … Continue reading
Do you remember the small wallhanging that I made using my foundation paper pieced Spool Star block? Playing with the Spool Star block is turning out very inspiring. So many ideas! Let’s look at the first new layout, a Holiday wreath! The traditional red and green, with some vintage-style blue and pink. This block works … Continue reading
So happy to announce that the ‘Tea with Kate’ kitchen quilt is finished. This wall hanging will be on display hopefully soon on a wall near my kitchen. I am happy with how it turned out, even though all the stitching seemed to take for ever. 😉 The blocks are foundation paper pieced for this … Continue reading
Quite a few years ago I drew some quilt designs in a notebook, which I promptly forgot about. When cleaning and sorting through the papers in my sewing room this Summer, I came across this notebook again. One of the designs I had come up with, I want to present to you today. I have … Continue reading
Most of my stash consists of FQs and half yard cuts. I love having a wide variety of fabrics to chose from. I store the FQ cuts (and wider cuts) in a bigger bin and the scraps in a smaller bins. The thing is that I didn’t actually use the scraps once they were in … Continue reading
My brother needed a new quilt, I decided. A blue, teal and grey one to use on the couch while watching tv. I found a great free pattern offered by Free Spirit. The design is by Tula Pink and it looks great in her fabric of course. But my brother is not really into pinks, … Continue reading
It has been a while since you saw anything from this kitchen project. The blocks are from the ‘Tea for Kate’ set that I designed in 2016. This is what I started out planning. I used lots of Alison Glass fabrics combined with lots of ‘pretty friends’. The blocks are 12x 12 inch and I … Continue reading
Hello everybody! I hope you are all safe and healthy. Many of you are homeschooling children, taking care of family members and / or friends and trying your best to stay healthy and shelter in place. I do hope you can make some time for yourself and enjoy some quilting or just look at pretty quilts. … Continue reading
Welcome to the second post on quilting around the corner with a Ribbon Candy pattern. Thank you all for your positive reactions to the first post. I hope that the explanation of type 2 and 3 will be as equally motivating to go and tackles those corners. In type 1 we worked our way to … Continue reading
Now that we have studied the basic shape of the Ribbon Candy pattern in part 8 of this series, we can ‘pretty it up’! Start with a large Ribbon Candy and then add a second ribbon where you cross at the middle line of the pattern. Click here, to be direct to YouTube to see … Continue reading
Several people who commented on my posts on my blog or on Facebook/Instagram requested information on how they could quilt around a corner using the Ribbon Candy pattern, just like you would do in borders around a quilt. So I started drawing to see what I could come up with. Almost directly, I came to … Continue reading
Welcome back for another round of freemotion tutorials! This is the last of the posts dedicated to the WISHBONE pattern variations, but there will be more tutorials, do not worry! I have a whole set of ideas planned out concerning the RIBBON CANDY pattern. Endless possibilities! Some of you may have noticed that somewhere in … Continue reading
Hello again to you all! This is 6th installment of this series of Freemotion pattern ideas based on the Wishbone pattern. In this blogpost I am focusing on changing the shape the loops of the Wishbone. First up for today is this triangular design. The regular round loops are now turned into triangles. I did … Continue reading
Hello again! Are you ready for some more wishbone variations? The last two tutorials (in part 4 of this series) may have been a bit complex for some quilters with all of that mirroring going on. These next two new tutorials will have hearts as well, but not the complexity of the previous patterns. Two … Continue reading
The most recent freemotion quilting challenge by Angela Walters of Quilting is my Therapy has inspired me to create some new tutorials for you and also design some new freemotion patterns. In the Facebook Group for Angela’s challenge, many quilters commented they had trouble with the Ribbon Candy pattern and the Wishbone pattern. I saw … Continue reading
I am just about to burst! I have to tell you something exciting! I am now a designer for Honest Fabric, the new fabric company by Karlee Porter!!! Karlee has become famous for her stunning graffiti quilting and her latest masterpiece ‘The Royal Huntress’ quilt that was admired by many at the recent Quilt Market. … Continue reading
May last year I put these small blocks together for my Hot Green quilt… which is still waiting to be quilted, by the way… I put these small blocks the middle of the flying geese border. I really like making these small blocks so I grabbed the pattern again for my F2F3 swap blocks for … Continue reading
In the last blogpost I shared the four blocks that I had pieced for my kitchen wallhanging. This mini quilt is based on a pattern set that I designed in 2016. The aim is to create 6 of the 7 block from the original set. Block number 5 of my 6 was this ‘Cups and … Continue reading
For a while now I have been wanting to go back to one of my first quilting loves; foundation paper piecing. At a quilt show this last month I found this selection of gorgeous fabrics. Most of these are Allison Glass from her collection of 2017 and 2018. I did add some others in small … Continue reading
In the beginning of 2013 I started designing foundation paper piecing patterns. My stash was kind of limited at that time, so my test blocks were made with all the same fabric. It left me with several block in a similar orange-brown color way, cute, pretty… but they were still in my cupboard since 2013… This … Continue reading
Can you believe it? This is the last official post on the 100 FMQ patterns. Really! We made it to 100 different patterns based on a square grid, orange peel, clamshell and a triangular/hexie grid. YAY! I am so glad I partook in this challenge and also kept going when things got a bit difficult … Continue reading
The countdown to Summer vacation is on; just two more weeks of school! 14 Days until Summer and 16 patterns left on my set of 100 patterns. 3…2…1… let’s get to it! Number 84: pattern CLAM ECHO. Based on the classic clamshell design. The inside of each clamshell is echoed in an spiral toward the … Continue reading
The 100 Days project is now officially at the three-quarters mark. I really never imagined to be able to reach 100 different patterns and more than a few tutorials to go with them. There are still 23 patterns left in the set of 100! That is a little over 3 weeks of patterns left… Number … Continue reading
While rummaging for more scraps I found this old orphan block from 2013 hiding in a box. That year I designed this foundation paper piecing pattern called Dazzle and I tested the block in different fabric combinations. I don’t think this particular block ever made it to the blog that I had just started that … Continue reading
This pattern must be my new favorite… Pattern WARPSPEED. Stitched on an 1 inch grid with a pre-marked 2 inch orange peel. Pattern TUMBLE; leaves tumbling through the air on their way down to earth. Stitched on an 1 inch grid with pre-marked 2 inch orange peels. Pattern CROSS STAR. Stitched on an 1 inch … Continue reading
This week’s tutorial is based on a zentangle drawing tutorial I found on Pinterest. The specific drawing pattern is called Clem and is designed by Erika Bonham Kehlet and can be found on the Pattern Collection website. I am in love with this flower! . Stitched on an 1 inch grid; the flower totals 2 inches. … Continue reading
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