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Scrappy Hearts Quilt

Scrappy Hearts Quilt

This lovely pattern is great for beginners and ideal for using your collection of fat quarters! The alternating placement of two simple blocks creates a deceivingly complex pattern. [columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] This lovely pattern is great for beginners and ideal for using your collection of fat quarters! The alternating placement of two simple blocks […]

Snips ‘n’ Snails Quilt

Snips ‘n’ Snails quilt
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] Sometimes what appears complex is the result of a simple concept. As well, what is conceived as simple can be a challenge. Before designer Monika Kinner-Whalen’s quilt project is dismissed as too complex or too simple, a closer look might reveal the opposite is true. “I started making quilt tops before […]

Coffee Club Quilt

Coffee Club Quilt
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] I LOVE batik fabrics and have been collecting them for awhile now, but have just started recently to actually cut them up and quilt with them. When I found these coffee cup and coffee bean batik fabrics at my local quilt shop, Taylor’s Sewing Centre in Brockville, I just had to […]

Traditional vs. Modern Quilting

Roots (roughly twin sized)
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] What are these different schools of the craft? I am, relatively speaking, new to quilting, and have learned that there is a heck of a lot more going on in quilting than when I made my first machine pieced and quilted quilt more than 10 years ago, and then left quilting […]

Summer Breezes Patio Quilt

Summer Breezes Patio Quilt
[columns] [span6] [/span6][span6] [/span6][/columns] It’s hard to imagine that summer could be warmed or brightened anymore, but designer Colleen Blackwell McMahon has found a way. Her patio quilts can be thrown nonchalantly over a wicker chair or draped over a picnic table or bundled onto a hammock to add another shot of colour or a […]

Canterbury Rose Stained Glass Quilt

Canterbury Rose Stained Glass Quilt

Some of the most glorious images in the world are created in stained glass, so why not create a “window” on your own world? Here is an opportunity to create your own “rose window” albeit not quite like the famous rose windows found in some of the world’s most beautiful cathedrals. The stained glass technique […]