Need a little colour therapy on this November day? Grab a pot of coffee and let me show you this happy quilt I just finished! I’ve talked about the challenge to make quilts for boys on here before. Whereas I’m not an advocate for gendered toys, clothes or stereotypes in general, I definitely feel like…
This one started with me wanting to make a plus quilt and ended up somewhere pretty different. When I design a quilt, I almost always start with the overall layout and composition. Once I have that figured out I will break the design down into smaller pieces. This way my quilts are rarely made up…
One of the most humbling things to experience as a maker is someone loving your work so much, they request a piece of it to go into their home. A lovely friend of mine asked me to sew a baby quilt for the nursery she was just setting up for her baby boy Charlie, expected to arrive in July/August. She was decorating…
Watermelons are the epitome of summer for me. Summer is all about refreshments and that fruit is basically a drink! When friends of ours welcomed their baby girl Emily in the middle of summer that’s where my thoughts went – making a watermelon themed quilt for her seemed perfect. You might remember the set of fruity coasters…
veni vidi vicky 