This beautiful quilt top was made by Carol and she has kindly agreed to me running a block drive using this design.  It’s a great one for using up scraps so I’m hoping to reduce the mountains of scraps I seem to collect.  Are you in for another scrappy project with me?  This quilt is made from two different blocks - each block measures 8.5” square. The first is made from four dark coloured 4.5” squares, sewn together in a four patch. The second block is made from sixteen 2.5” squares.  Eight low volume squares, and eight brightly coloured ones.   ..read more

  If you would like to help me make more quilts for Siblings Together here is my tutorial for the next mini block drive.   Cutting instructions Please choose sweet pea coloured fabrics: purple, pink, blue, turquoise, green, and yellow.  The background should be Low Volume or plain, light coloured, unpatterned fabric used throughout the block thank you. From background fabric cut:  Four 4.5” squares Five 2.5” squares From assorted pink, purple, turquoise, blue, yellow and green fabrics cut : Four 8.5” x 2.5” rectangles Four 4.5” x 2.5” rectangles Four 2.5” squares Use ..read more

Today we are launching another mini block drive again hosted by Tricia Johanson. Thank you Tricia! The blocks Tricia would like are based on a method by Chris English which he calls "Crumb Blocks", fabric scraps are sewn together to make a new piece of fabric which can be used in various ways to make new blocks of various designs. We just need you to make 9.5" blocks of this "made" fabric. Tricia has lots of design ideas for the quilts. Thank you to Chris English for the instructions for the crumb blocks which Tricia has adapted slightly for the tutorial.                     HOW TO MAKE ..read more

Yup this is happening - do come along as I have lots of our wonderful donated quilts to show you ..read more

Hi everyone, it’s time for the next round of the mini block drive, this time with Kate (@timetosew on Instagram). For the next few months we will be looking at two blocks: Half Square Triangles (HSTs) Snowball blocks Quilt inspiration There is lots you can do with just HSTs and Snowball blocks. We hope to be able to make up different quilt top designs depending on how many blocks are made. In the meantime, here’s some inspiration: Caption: (L) Indian Summer quilt, (R) Lake Michigan Quilt, both patterns by Suzy Quilts Caption: Fractals by Jeni Baker, and vintage snowball quilt (image from ..read more