Week 5, the final week in the Aura Blog party, has come and gone and boy oh boy did we go out with a bang. MEET THE MAKERS First up was Whole Circle Studio and I’m absolutely smitten with these EPP mini quilts she made using her new Typecast pattern....
Legendary Squares
The moment that I got Pat Bravo's Legendary Collection, I knew that I needed to make a quilt. The colors are prints were perfection and immediately a gradient came to mind. So I whipped up a squares design in illustrator and jumped right in even though I had a bajillion...
Lugu Pillow of Self Care
Before I began working on this pillow, I consciously decided that I needed to make something just for my own self care. While I love sharing what I learn and tutorials and stuff, I hadn't done a project just for me in a long while. So when Jessica Swift's Lugu...
Aura Blog Party – Week 4
Omg Week 4 of the Aura Blog Party y'all! I'm blown away by all these makes I can hardly stand it. Let's recap. MEET THE MAKERS Friendship Braid Pouch by Maureen Cracknell First up is Maureen Cracknell's day in the Aura Blog Party and she made this amazingly super cool...
Quilting 101: Whole Cloth Quilt (with video tutorial)
In preparation for National Quilting Day, I decided to create a couple beginner-friendly quilting tutorials that could help bring more future quilters into the fold. The first tutorial is on the Brother Stitching Sewcial Site and is a smaller quilted pillow with an envelop pillow. And while the pillow tutorial...
Project Quilting – Abecedarius
Okay so this project was super duper fun y'all. Have you heard of Project Quilting? It's now in its 10th season and it's the brainchild of Kim Lapacek of Persimon Dreams, who is obsessed with the challenges in Project Runway and was awesome enough to organize something for the quilting...
Aura Blog Party – Week 3
Week 3 of the Aura Blog Party was a full week of seven examples of fabric magic. Like seriously each and every make blew me away. MEET THE MAKERS Ikat Quilt by Tara of Wefty Needle Yeehaw! The Aura Blog Party kicks off again with WEFTY Needle’s amazing Ikat Quilt....
Sun Kissed Chevron – HST Tutorial
As soon as I got my hands on Maureen Cracknell's new Sun Kissed Collection, I knew that I had to make a quilt with it. Little did I know that I'd be making my biggest quilt to date. It started with me testing out my new Gemini machine by Crafter's...