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    February Aurifil Designer Mini Quilt

    This month Joanna Figueroa has made a chubby churn dash mini quilt finishing at 23 1/2″ x 23 1/2″. Meet the face behind the most beautiful Moda fabrics and patterns in an interview with Pat Sloan. I will be making…

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    Grey Matter – Quilt Now Magazine

    Issue 8 of Quilt Now is available this Thursday and is jammed packed with 23 fabulous projects and inspirational ideas.  This month I was lucky to be amongst the greats, @lilysquilts (cover Quilt), @imagingermonkey, @j_q_adams and @reeneeatnelliesniceties (cover cushion) @the_littlest_thistle,…

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    Shark Fins

    Images courtesy of www.elefantz.com. © Copyright 2015 Jennifer Reynolds  Jenny of Elefantz asked me to design a new style block from a traditional block. I chose the simple diamond in the square block and made it into a 5-patch block, utilising…

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    Cultured Clams

    Issue #71 of Australian Quilters Companion is now available and it is jammed packed with beautiful projects. My cultured Clams, made with Emma Jean Jansen’s Terra Australis I and II on a natural linen background, uses appliqué meets drunkard path…

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    APQ Quilt A Long – Go Four It

    How exciting. APQ are having another quilt-a-long. This time we are all going to be making a variation on a 4-patch quilt. Lissa Alexander, April Rosenthal and Edyta Sitar have all designed a glorious 4-patch quilt for you to make. …

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    True North

    I bought a pattern today because I love this one so much. It’s a new pattern from She Quilts A Lot called True North. I can feel a Quilt-A-long in the air.  The quilt shown is in Moda Bella and…

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    January Blocks

    It has began. Yep, 2015 heralds the start of the Aurifil Designer BOM and Pat Sloan’s BOM. This year The Aurifil designers are making mini quilts. Gundrun’s Flurry block/mini is 15″ x 15″ finished. You can find the block and…

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    Aurifil Designer Blocks 2014 finish

    December marked the last month of a fabulous year of blocks from the Aurifil Designer BOM 2014. To finish the quilt I framed each block in a spool and set them on point with a specially designed spool block in…

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    Spool block

    The Aurifil Designer BOM for 2014 is coming to an end and all 12 blocks have been published. To finish my quilt I set the 12 blocks on point and added this spool block to the centre. The final on-point…