by Emmely | Jan 23, 2023 | Finished project, Garment, Sewing
Do your hands get cold in winter? Mine do and it bothers me more than it used to. Especially when I am riding my bike. I used to wear relatively thin gloves, but I needed something a lot warmer. I haven’t worn mittens since childhood but recently made some for my...
by Emmely | Jan 11, 2023 | Finished project, Garment, Sewing
A couple of months ago my children picked out some fun apparel fabrics. They both chose a dinosaur fabric (luckily not the same one!) for dinosaur hoodies with bunny ears. This is a pattern from “Made by Me Patterns” and the moment I showed a picture of this hoodie to...
by Emmely | Nov 16, 2022 | Finished project, Paper piecing, Pattern drafting
I finally turned one of my sample blocks for the cat in basket pattern into a cat mini quilt. My youngest daughter picked the 6-inch block which would be a very tiny quilt when used on its own. To make it a more useful size I added a border. The 2-inch facing strips...
by Emmely | Oct 29, 2022 | English paper piecing, Finished project, Pattern design, Quilting, Sewing
Each year Quiltcon organizes a fabric challenge. Members of the Modern Quilt Guild are challenged to create a quilt using a strict fabric palette. This year the fabrics were 6 colours from the Windham Ruby + Bee solids collection and you had to use at least 4 of them...
by Emmely | Oct 3, 2022 | Finished project, Garment, Sewing
My youngest daughter’s old winter hat no longer fits. When I told her, her first response was that I could make her a new one. I googled free hat patterns, showed her a picture of the Wholecloth patterns Blizzard Bonnet and off we went. Underlining the main fabric My...
by Emmely | Sep 19, 2022 | Finished project, Paper piecing, Pattern design, Quilting, Sewing
I made the “Rotate, rotate” mini quilt for one of Curated Quilts’ quilt challenges. For each issue of this modern quilting journal, they set a challenge from which they select mini quilts to show in the magazine. The quilts all share a certain theme and colour palette...
