Author Archives: Josée

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Blogger’s Quilt Festival: Bursting Star Quilt

If you are reading this post, either you are a regular reader of my blog or you come from the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you’ll enjoy what you’ll see. Also, thanks to Amy from Amy’s Creative Side for organizing this event and to her sponsors for all the lovely prizes. This is […]

First Publication in a Quilt Magazine

I have published a few patterns in the past. Most of them in Stitch, from Interweave. But I just got published in a quilt magazine. It makes me quite happy since I’m loving quilt making more and more. I particularly enjoy designing them. This time I designed a playmat quilt that just has been published […]

Sewing for Boston

This weekend I did a bit of sewing for the people of Boston. Did you here about the To Boston With Love an Quilts for Boston initiatives? A few members from the Montreal Modern Quilt Guild offered to help out the Vancouver MQG branch to make some flags. I made two of them. One following […]

Bear Carrier for Easter

I’m not a big fan of chocolate for Easter, so I decided to sew something for my little ones instead. Anyway, I knew they would be getting plenty from their grand-parents. I made one of the first thing they asked for when they saw my new book Little Things to Sew from Liesl Gibson: the […]

Crossing Roads Quilt

I shared the top panel of this quilt when we returned from the Holidays . The design is mine and you can read a bit about it in this post. I’ve finish the quilting and the binding lately. For the quilting, I wanted to put to practice some notions I learned from Angela Walters‘ books and Craftsy […]

First Quilt Show

I got my Refection mini-quilt back from a quilt exhibition. It was the first time I had a quilt displayed in a show. And it was a special one, the first one organized by The Modern Quilt Guild: QuiltCon. I hesitated on submitting a quilt. But, members of our guild (Montreal branch of the MQG) encouraged […]

Card/coin Wallet

My step-mother has been looking for a wallet to carry her coins and cards for a while. I have been looking for a pattern/tutorial to make her one. She has got quite a stack of cards, about an inch thick. I really love this one, which I first saw in leather. However, I though a […]

Piano Cover

Lately, I finished up a project that was on my WIP list for more than a year. My sister had requested a cover for her boyfriend’s electronic piano. They wanted something in black, white, grey and red. She had sent this picture for inspiration (sorry I can’t give credit to anyone for this poster). It […]