Free Bird Quilting Designs

Free Bird Quilting Designs

Me+You Calippo Quilt

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I received these beautiful Me+You Batiks from Hoffman Fabrics and decided to use them in a new shop sample of my Calippo quilt pattern. Made up my  strips, staggering them as I sewed them together. Once they were all joined it was time to cut them up into triangles and join the triangle strips together.   It is important to lay all of the triangles out before … [Read more...]

Art Gallery Divided Blooms Quilt

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One of my favourite quilts is my 'Divided Blooms' quilt. I needed to make another sample quilt because I am teaching this quilt in various shops around Melbourne. I chose florals from Art Gallery fabrics, aren't they just beautiful? I always, always use the fabric swatch table in the pattern to decide which fabrics I will use for each flower. Naturally my cat decided to sit right in … [Read more...]

Dresden Plate – Curved Tipped

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In the 'Modern Mandala' and the 'Radiating Circles' patterns there are instructions for a 20 blade, 14 inch dresden plate, so I thought I would do a quick photo tutorial as an extra resource. In the shop section of the website you will find a written tutorial and template for the dresden that you can download for free. 1. Make the template out of template plastic or thick card. 2. … [Read more...]

Dresden Plate – Pointy Tipped

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In the 'Modern Mandala' and the 'Radiating Circles' patterns there are instructions for a 20 blade, 14 inch dresden plate, so I thought I would do a quick photo tutorial as an extra resource. In the shop section of the website you will find a written tutorial and template for the dresden that you can download for free. 1. Make the template out of template plastic or thick … [Read more...]

Calippo Quilt

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*********** Calippo quilt Pattern is available in my 'Shop' *********** My latest quilt pattern is an easy strip quilt. The key to this quilt is the fabric selection of light, medium and dark fabrics. In this quilt I have used blenders but don't be limited by this selection. This quilt would look amazing in florals, solids and even christmas fabric. I plan to make it in a few more … [Read more...]

Spring mischief ‘Flowering wreath’ quilt

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******** This Flowering Wreath Pattern is available in my 'Shop' *********** When I was approached by Ella Blue Fabrics to make a 'Flowering Wreath' quilt from the latest fabric collection by Leanne Beasley of Leanneshouse called 'Spring Mischief', I thought it was a match made in heaven. I only had ten days to make, quilt and bind the quilt so it could be shipped to Houston for Quilt … [Read more...]

Emma’s pickled orange peel quilt.

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What a fantastic opportunity to get to quilt this amazing paper pieced quilt. This is an updated pattern by Emma Jean Jansen soon to be released on her website www.emmajeanjansen.com.au I chose a really neutral thread to quilt this one so the quilting would not compete with the quilts fabrics. Yes  … [Read more...]

Modern Mandala Quilt

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****** Pattern now available in shop******* I was lucky enough to have these fabulous colour saturated Me+you batiks from Hoffman Fabrics to create this quilt. These batiks are perfect for a raw edge quilt. This design called for lots of little pieces of applique. I lay the pieces onto the quilt top, to check the colours and shapes were balanced. I matched all of the thread … [Read more...]

Divided Blooms Quilt

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******* This Divided Blooms Pattern is available in my 'shop' ********* I was lucky enough to be able to design this quilt with the beautiful Lecien Memoire a Paris fabric range. I used a fat quarter bundle of the collection which was perfect! (see below for a full product code description of all fabric used in this quilt.) The fabrics are a beautiful soft lawn and in the most gorgeous … [Read more...]

Tula Pinks City Sampler

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The 100 Modern Quilt  Blocks is such a challenge but I decided not to stress about a block each day just enjoy making the blocks when I could. The combination of the linen, memoire a Paris range and the island style fabric was just right for the pretty romantic style quilt I had in mind. Just to make things confusing I started at block 80. … [Read more...]