Archive for the ‘Quilting’ Category
Perfect Circle Tutorial
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 13:03 No CommentsJodie of Vintage Ric Rac posted this very useful tutorial on how she makes her circles so neat. All it takes is a little extra fabric, and it definitely saves all the hassle of needle turn. This is also the same method I use to turn the inside of any appliqued letters, I love the [...]
Cheater’s Quilt Tutorial
Monday, August 9, 2010 10:00 No CommentsCrystal of Little Bit Funky posted this fabulous “quilt” tutorial over the weekend, with just a little bit of batting and some squares of fabric you can turn a shop bought comforter into your own personalised, very easy to make, quilt. This is great for an instant gratification project, it can be finished in a [...]
What I Create – Week Thirteen
Sunday, April 4, 2010 22:12 8 CommentsBackdated post to make up for how slack I’ve been, sorry to anyone on the RSS feed! I’m all about quilts this week. This is Emma, I’ve always been terrible at naming my quilts so I figured I need to come up with a standard system for them, I figure each one of them is [...]
Red String Quilt
Thursday, March 18, 2010 20:52 2 CommentsI quilted and bound Connor’s red string quilt a few days ago. Echo stitching around the block seams the same as his brother’s version and bound in the same fabric. I ended up using some flannelette from my stash, a bright blue with skulls and crossbones on it. The flannelette I backed it with wasn’t [...]
String Inspiration
Monday, March 15, 2010 22:18 3 Comments1. It’s very pink, 2. Pink Strings top, 3. string, 4. Spiderweb trial block 1 for my month of Spiderweb Bee, 5. String Quilt Pillow, 6. Spider Web Quilt in Progress, 7. “a little help from my friends” top completed, 8. colorful string quilt, 9. black white + green string baby quilt front, 10. string [...]
String Quilt Love
Friday, March 12, 2010 19:25 4 CommentsRemember my string block tutorial*? I started that quilt in may of 2008, Declan was just over a year old and I had barely finished the top when he swiped it off me, dubbed it “The Patchwork Blanket” and never gave it back. That poor quilt top has been abused beyond measure since then. It [...]
Robyn’s Mini Quilt Sneak Peak
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 18:45 5 CommentsIn the last few weeks of pregnancy I finally decided to a theme for the cot set I planned on making for our third babe. Black and white prints from Northcott mixed in with tone on tone blue and orange prints if it was a boy, and a tiny pink leopard print if I ended [...]
LogCabin Quilt In A Week – Day Two: Constructing The Blocks
Saturday, January 2, 2010 10:32 2 CommentsSo far you will have completed Step One – Cutting. Step Two covers the construction of the off centre/wonky logcabin blocks. This is probably the most sewing intensive step of the week, from start to finish it took me about five hours to make 30 blocks, so you’ll want to set aside a good portion [...]
Selvedge NeedleBook Tutorial
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:43 10 CommentsI’m kicking myself for not thinking of this before Christmas as a gift for my crafty Mum, it’s so easy, took about half an hour to whip up and the finished result is awesome. So if you need a place to keep stray needles and have a few selvedges laying around, read on! Apologies in [...]
LogCabin Quilt In A Week – Day One: Cutting
Monday, December 7, 2009 14:53 3 CommentsAfter all the interest in Declan’s Log Cabin quilt I’ve decided to make Connor’s quilt a community project. For the next few weeks I will be outlining one step a day to lead you to the finished quilt. The entire project can be done within a weekend, but as a busy Mum I know there [...]




