The ever lovely Sarah Fielke released her latest book, Little Quilts back in September. She co-wrote this book along with Amy Lobsinger. The book includes 15 adorable mini quilts, perfect for swapping with your friends! And who doesn’t like a teeny tiny mini quilt? No one who is normal anyway, they are so cute! As part of the book launch, […]
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Follow my blog with Bloglovin Angela is one of the most influential modern quilters and her love for free motion quilting is plain to see. I loved watching her Quiltcon 2013 lecture on her approach design for quilting. With a long list of amazing clients, including Jacquie Gering and Tula Pink, Angela is a long arm quilter, teacher, […]
Latifah Saafir has been sewing since she was a little girl. Her passion and enthusiasm for making quilts shines through each of her pieces. Her quilting style is bold, modern and timeless. And, she helped establish the Modern Quilt Guild! 1. Tell us about how you started quilting and how you found modern quilting. I’ve […]
My fellow Sewvivor comrade Chris Thompson is a native New Yorker and is working in the corporate offices for a very famous American clothing brand best known for their jeans, khakis, and t-shirts placing merchandise and styling mannequins for each season. By night he is the tattooed quilter and he bring his own style of quilting to the […]
Josh is an American quilter and blogger living in Sydney who’s alter ego, Molli Sparkles has taken on a life of her/his own. The Molli Sparkles blog is a glittery, sparkly place to hang out, but be careful he doesn’t spill the truth tea! I met Josh at the Australian Modern Quilt show in May 2014, where he took […]
I am hosting an interactive series called Modern Quilting Modern Women. It’s all about celebrating what makes us who we are as individuals and as a community of quilters. It’s about how our craft defines us and gives us a creative outlet which pays respect to our mothers and their mothers before them. I see […]
I absolutely love this way of finishing off the binding on a quilt. It gives it a lovely texture and as an added bonus, it is fast and easy! Follow this hand binding tutorial to complete your next quilt and maybe it might become your favourite binding technique too! Just a word of warning, I don’t use […]
Last week I put a call out and said, ask me anything! Well, you guys asked some pretty great questions, that’s for sure! I have done my very best to answer them. Lyn: How long have you been quilting, and what got you started? I have been quilting for 7 years. I have always sewn and have […]
Sewwvivor has come and gone for me. What an amazing ride this crazy adventure has been! I knew I would have to write this post eventually and I have sat down several times to do so, only to be easily distracted by something else. But the time has come where I can procrastinate no longer. […]
In some ways it feels like many months have passed since we started on this crazy ride. There has been so much quilting crammed into the last few weeks and I can’t quite believe this little Aussie bird is still in the competition! Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart, for your […]