Some of my favourite ‘me made’ gifts are customized cushions. People love the personal touch that commemorates a name, date, or special occasion. This decorative cushion is one of my favourite embroidery designs. Download pattern. Read more in our Issue 56. Designed by Lynn Swanson Brother Educator www.brother.ca
While planning my project for the theme – Neutral with a Pop of Colour – modern quilting came to mind and to me nothing is more modern than quilting with embroidery! The 260 x 260mm, creativeTM Grand Quilters Hoop along with the free beautiful quilting designs that are available for it, made this theme easy […]
Black and white fabric with a little splash of red is all that is required to create a stunning simple quilt; or rephrased; a simply stunning quilt. One of my goals as a National Educator has been to get young people sewing and prepare them to carry on the quilting traditions of my generation and […]
For my birthday, my husband surprised me with golf lessons and all the necessary golf accessories to make me look like a pro, including golf shoes. When the theme for this issue came out – Neutral with a Pop of Colour – I knew I wanted to make a fun bag for my new shoes. […]
When I was a child, my family lived in a post-and-beam house in the country, with 14-foot ceilings in the living room. At Christmas, my dad and brothers would go out to dad’s trapline, cut down the tallest tree they could find, and haul it home. The tree-top reached the ceiling, and our entire family […]
Depending on the region of Canada you live in, fall is full of leaves of many different colours, tones, shades, and hues. Last fall took me to different areas of our beautiful country. Starting in Kananaskis and Lake Louise area of Alberta, the Tamarack Pine turns a beautiful yellow and gold before loosing its needles. […]
Considering a project that reflects TREES the first thing that came to mind was the swing we had on an old cherry tree in our backyard. The tree and swing have long been gone but the memories live on! While on one of our morning walks, I found the perfect tree to use as inspiration […]
I believe that a tree is a symbol of generations of a family. A tree sprouts from the ground, grows, branches out and then creates new growth and leaves, just like a family. You may have a large family with many leaves or a small family with just a few leaves. Celebrate your family by […]
I can talk hours and hours about my love of nature. I always try to share this love through my work with fabrics and threads. Musing over this issue’s theme, I remembered Stanley Horowitz’s saying, “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all”. Download pattern. […]
In 2016 I had the pleasure of attending a quilting retreat about improvising and composition hosted by one of my mentors, Ricky Tims. Ricky smiled when he saw me there being that our styles and process for making quilts are totally opposite of each other. When I start a quilting project, I have a rather […]