English paper pieced Dresden block: I’ve been wanting to make...
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English paper pieced Dresden block: I’ve been wanting to make new pillow covers for a while, to replace the ones that I made about 5 years ago, which have been very well-used and worn.  I figured I would take the opportunity of having more time at home to do some hand sewing - English paper piecing. I decided on Dresden blocks, using a pull of Carolyn Friedlander fabrics. I used free Dresden templates from Occasional Piece Quilts - I have used her templates before, for a bag I made several years ago. They work perfectly with 2.5″ x 5″ pieces of fabric - which is half a charm sq ..read more
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Inside-Outside Pouch: Last weekend (which at this point, feels...
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Inside-Outside Pouch: Last weekend (which at this point, feels like a million years ago!), I picked up Aneela Hoey’s pattern for an “inside-outside pouch” on her website. I really love Aneela’s pouch patterns, which have interesting and inventive designs.  Luckily, I had the fabric and notions needed for the project - including some vinyl that I bought years ago but had never got around to using for anything. Since we were staying home anyway, I had the time to mostly finish it in an afternoon! The hand binding was probably the trickiest part, especially around the bottom c ..read more
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HST Wedding Quilt
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Last May (2019) I finished up this quilt for some friends our ours who got married. I wanted to make a quilt for them that had the same clean lines and modern feeling as their house and decor. I made a bunch of HST blocks and arranged in a kind of gradient, mostly greys and neutrals with a few pops of colour in between.  Around that time, I went to a workshop with the Ottawa Modern Quilt Guild, with Johanna Masko on hand quilting.  I brought this quilt along to work on, and added hand quilting to several blocks around the quilt.  I finished it off with straight line quilting (my favourite!) an ..read more
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Weight of Love quilt - Finished!It took over 4 years, but I...
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Weight of Love quilt - Finished! It took over 4 years, but I finally finished the Weight of Love quilt that I started with Libs Elliott back when I first moved to Ottawa. It was my one project that for whatever reason, just never seemed to get done! I left it less than half-pieced for about 3 years (I didn’t touch it after our workshop). At a retreat in 2018, I finished up the patchwork section, but then I waited about another year before appliquéing it on to a backing fabric. Then I finally quilted it up this past November! Quilty Details: * Libs Elliott’s “Weight of Love” quilt pat ..read more
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Farmer’s Wife quilt: A project that I’ve been working on for a while is the Farmer’s Wife quilt,...
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Farmer’s Wife quilt: A project that I’ve been working on for a while is the Farmer’s Wife quilt, from the book by Laurie Aaron Hird - which I started back in April 2017 at a workshop with Johanna Masko hosted by the Ottawa Modern Quilt Guild. I just finished my 25th block last week, which was a milestone. But, the book has 110 blocks so I still have a long way to go! I hadn’t laid the blocks out in a while, I’m liking how the colours are coming together. I’m just using Kona cotton and Carolyn Friedlander prints for this one ..read more
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Ultra Violet quilt: Finished!This week I finished up the quilt I...
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Ultra Violet quilt: Finished!This week I finished up the quilt I started earlier this year, during the Pantone Color of the Year Quilt Challenge, hosted by Sarah Sharp and Rebecca Bryan. I had actually finished binding this one a while back, but it wasn’t straight and that was bothering me, so I took the binding off one side, trimmed it, and re-did the binding. I’m much happier with it now! (For the time being, some of the photos of that process are up on my Instagram “stories” about this quilt!) Quilty Details:* 55 x 68″ finished size * Improvisationally pieced - no templates ..read more
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Kaleidoscope Blocks: For this month’s Not So Basic project, we...
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Kaleidoscope Blocks: For this month’s Not So Basic project, we are celebrating the release of Riley Blake’s newest basic - Crayola Kaleidoscope Basics!We made Kaleidoscope Blocks, designed by Lee Heinrich (of Freshly Pieced), in various colours of the new basics. The blocks from all the quilters involved are going to be pieced together and made into a quilt - I can’t wait to see what it looks like all together!Thanks so much to Riley Blake Designs and Christopher@the_tattooed_quilter (IG) for setting up the project ..read more
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Bequest fabric - Plaid lap quilt: Over the past few weeks, I...
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Bequest fabric - Plaid lap quilt: Over the past few weeks, I have been working on a project using Bequest fabrics, by Briar Hill Designs for RJR Fabrics. The ladies who make up the Briar Hill Designs team are fellow Canadians, and I’m happy to participate and support them!The Bequest line is basically a gradient of blue fabrics, which is a really fun idea. I knew when I saw them that I wanted to try my hand at a plaid design to use all of the tones of blue. After a few sketches, I came up with this design that has skinny and thicker stripes. It was fun to piece! Each block is 7 ..read more
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