How To Make a Pieced Back for your Quilt
DIARY A quiet place to share work away from the hustle of social media… A pieced backing can really make your quilt sing! It’s a great way to use up fabric from your stash, or enhance the design by incorporating fabrics from your quilt top into the back. It can be a lifesaver if you’ve […]
Discover the Joy of Designing and Selling Your Own Pantographs
DIARY A quiet place to share work away from the hustle of social media… Are you curious about creating and selling your very own pantographs? Maybe you’d love a source of passive income, or perhaps you just want the joy of seeing your personalized designs stitched into a loved ones quilt. I’ve been exactly where […]
Wavy Slice – A New Pantograph Design
DIARY A quiet place to share work away from the hustle of social media… I’ve been making a lot of new pantographs and Wavy Slice is one of my favourites. It’s an offshoot of Slice, which is part of the 100 Day Pantograph Design Challenge. I’ll be putting this on a quilt any minute now, […]
100 Days of Pantograph Design Challenge
Have you ever done a 100 day challenge? The concept is that you create something every day for 100 days to “explore the impact of daily repetition on creative output”. I’m in the middle of one right now, called the #100daypantodesignchallenge, run by @thequiltingmill on Instagram. I’m up to about day 30 (I’ve lost count already) […]
Rainbow Rows Quilt
DIARY A quiet place to share work away from the hustle of social media… I’ve never shared this quilt publicly before, but on the 13, 14, and 15 Sept, it had its debut at theWhangarei Patchworkers and Quilters Show. It’s 102” wide x 87” high, was started in 2020, completed in 2023. The wee squares […]
Gosh, a Ribbon!
Long overdue news… My piece called “Calm and Chaos” was exhibited at the Great New Zealand Quilt Show in May 2023. IT WON A RIBBON!!! (Which means, I won a ribbon!!!) Thank you Aotearoa Quilters, New Zealand’s national quilting body, for giving me a context to exhibit within. And Tis the Season for the awesome […]