I just finished up those two Half-Square Triangle blocks yesterday. Most fabrics are by French General for Moda. Some are Parson Gray’s Curious Nature collection which I just love. I couldn’t identify the others. I got them from a scrap bag at a local shop. The beige is Kona cotton in Natural. My step-parents are […]
I finished up my quilt top for my bursting star and completed the quilting. As I was saying in my previous post, I added a border in coal. But before adding the border, I added a flange in orange to frame the star. I will also be adding a second flange when I’ll do the […]
Do you remember my half-square triangles leftover from my September blocks for do. Good Stitches? They have been on my my design wall since then. Once in a while I would stop to move them around and see what I could do. This week I settled on a design. It’s been a while a want […]
Yesterday, I worked on my blocks for do. Good Stitches. Elaine from Dashasel Sews asked us to make some hot air balloons. She is the quilter for October in the Joy circle. We used a free pattern from Quiltmaker called Up, Up and Away. It is using paper piecing. It was a lot of fun to give this technique a […]
Last week was the first meeting of the Montreal Modern Quilt Guild since our summer break. It was great to see some people come back from the few meetings we had before and also to meet new faces. In June, four of us had started a scrap swap. We had to bring a sandwich Ziploc filled with […]
Did you ear about Fabric Spot? It is a new Canadian online fabric store. They specialize in modern fabrics, solids and organics. They have a few designer collections. Among others, they currently have The Birds & the Bees by Tula Pink and Chicopee by Denyse Schmidt. They have a great selection of solid color fabrics (Kona solids from Robert […]
With September came some group changes at my son’s daycare. He went from the Ladybug group to the Frog group. He his now part of the older kids at the daycare. This means SCHOOL next year, already! Anyway, I wanted to prepare a little something for his daycare teacher. I had thought about a notebook cover with […]
I’m running a bit late for my blocks for do. Good Stitches. We are almost in October and I just finished up my September blocks. I had started them earlier, but then I realized I didn’t have enough Kona in white. Thanks to Pam from Mad About Patchwork, I received some in no time! For […]
My wonky kites quilt is basted! I can’t wait to see how the quilting will go. It’s the first time I quilt such a large quilt (60″ x 72″). All my basting pins are there. I just hope it will be enough. I will quilt some diamonds. As you can see I marked them with […]
This summer, I finished up a quilt top and back with the help of some girls in do. Good Stitches. We used my tutorial on Wonky Kite Stripe Block. I received a total of 12 blocks from Amanda, Kristin, Terrie and Melissa. A big thanks to them! The quilt is intended for a friend of […]