• BoonahBee2024

    What I love about Quilting Bees

    I go away a couple of times a year with the most wonderful group of modern quilters. It’s a weekend of laughter and some serious sewing in the beautiful township of Boonah. Last year we started a Bee of 12…

  • BoonahBee2024,  Projects,  Quilts

    Scrap buster blocks

    I belong to the most wonderful Modern Quilting Guild, BrisbaneMQG and on sew days I get to marvel at all the talented quilters projects. Justine, a new member, had a pile of colourful 25 patch blocks with 1″ finished black…

  • Christmas

    Gnome painting – Intense Pencils

    My lovely friend has a ‘Christmas Gnome thing’ and I wanted to surprise her with a table runner. Using Derwent Inktense pencils, I coloured a stitched out digital pattern from My Creative stitches. I must admit it was a bit…

  • FQS Charity Quilt

    2024 Charity Quilt-along Moonbeams

    I am so grateful to the Fat quarter shop for inviting me to participate in the 2024 Make a Wish charity Quilt-qlong. FQS raised over $113k to give sick children and their families to make their wishes come true. Reserve…

  • FQS Charity Quilt

    Bountiful Charity Quilt – Finished

    Have you caught up with your Bountiful quilt? I have been a bit behind in posting my blocks so here is Release 4. It is the beautiful butterfly pattern, which I have to say was my favourite block. Release 5…

  • Patterns

    Norfolk Tiles – NEW quilt pattern

    When Janet in my Modern quilting group showed me a photo of her daughter’s house tiles and asked me to draft a pattern, I immediately said, “Yes”. This straightforward pattern uses a simple method to make the star points. The…

  • Sewcialites

    Sewcialites 2 – Block 21 Dapper

    The humble 9-patch snowball block The Sewcialites 2 sew-a-long is in full swing and there are only a few blocks to go. Today I am posting about my block, Dapper, a humble 9-patch snowball. For those that know me my…