Stitch & Yarn news

MPavilion quilt challenge
See my quilts as part of the Melbourne Modern Quilt Guild and MPavilion 10 collaboration at Queen Victoria Gardens. 16 quilts in total were made to a brief by our talented members.

Quiltcon 2024
What an honour! Second place in one of my favourite categories to enter – the design challenge. Big thanks to sponsors, American Patchwork and Quilting, as well as judges Denise Schmidt, Brigit Dermott and Stacey A. Watson; and of course, the MQG.

Tall Poppy slow sewalong
Join me for a Tall Poppy slow sewalong! I’ll be sharing lots of tips and guidance as I make alongside you, but we’ll be taking it easy – no rushing to finish here.

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View fullsize This isn’t what I had planned for today, but I woke to the shocking news of the death of Angela Ritchie, founder of @acecampstravel, so today I sewed in honour of her. Included are batik swatches made on my trip to Eswatini @baobab_batik; bloc
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View fullsize Had a lovely international quilting lunch today along with some studio visits. The conversation turned to the importance of play, which I don’t do nearly enough. So this afternoon was spent playing with fabric scraps from @femketextiles (inclu
View fullsize A bunch of (mostly) newbie-quilter (all) superstars here 🤩 at week four of my Not your Nana’s Quilting course. There’s so much openness, experimentation and play going on - I just love watching these works come together. This is a sel
View fullsize The garden is slowly growing on my wall… And the next #tallpoppyslowalong post is live on my blog. We’re now up to making the budding poppy unit. I’m hoping to grow a couple more poppies over the weekend… how about you? .
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View fullsize I’m lucky last quilt to be posted for our @mpavilion l @melbmqg collab on Thursday, but as this year’s season ends on 28 March I thought I’d show you a few more details before it all comes to an end. It’s been incredibly rewa
View fullsize Beginner quilters with big plans. We’ve made some precise blocks and some wonky blocks and they’re all figuring out their preferred approach. I just ❤️ seeing where things go with each new step. We did some designing today and there were
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View fullsize Remember this one from a couple of weeks back? Well, after all your amazing suggestions, I’m succumbing to the need to hand quilt it. Some will be small stitches, other sections will use big stitch quilting - depending on the block. I figure
View fullsize Apologies in advance if this post is incoherent, I’m still jet lagged but I wanted to pop in to show you a few things… 1. HAPPY MAIL! My quilts arrived safely back today with the lovely ribbon and labels. Thanks @themqg for getting them
View fullsize I am just itching to start my ‘Not your Nana’s quilting’ course @schoolofsewing_upcycling next weekend after all the inspiration from #quiltcon2024 The afternoon session is sold out but we do have a few spots left in the morning,

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