Do you know what another name for the Wild Rose is? Meadow Rose!!!! So, to find a Hoffman Dream Big panel called Wild Rose was meant to be! I finished my Hoffman Dream Big - Tide Pool recently and knew that I needed to do at least one more! I so enjoyed working with 2 threads at the same time on the Tide Pool quilt that I wanted to try combing more threads. I quilted all the background and petal outlining with WonderFil's Tutti (13) Hibiscus. this thread is a very subtle v

I've been busy. In January I went to the Handi Quilter head office for National Educator training in Salt Lake City. We had a great time getting to know each other better and learning from the Studio Educators and one another. We had a bit of show and tell. We had been challenged to quilt ice dyed panels that we had been given at 2016's educator training. I blogged about my efforts here. In addition to these quilts we were showing, some of us brought other quilts to show. Kel

A number of years ago quilters were introduced to a wonderful pen. It marked paper and fabric, and heat or friction removed the marks. Quilters used them for everything!! A problem and a worry soon became apparent. These marks didn't erase or iron off completely. If your quilt got cold, a residue of the mark would re-appear. We were horrified!!!!! BUT a but of research showed that these pens were NOT MADE FOR FABRIC. They were initially made for true Crossword Puzzlers who w

I've been thinking a lot lately about how to stream line my communication with everyone. I write a Meadow Rose Quilts newsletter a couple of times a month. I've spent most of the day working on the latest issue and it's long! Most of that is a repeat of what I'm writing in my blog posts and facebook page anyway. It's not that I find it too time consuming, but as someone who receives almost 100 emails and notifications a day and wants to read everything!, I think its time I ju

Today I'm sharing the wedding quilt I made for my quilting niece. Steph loves to quilt and over the years has made many wonderful quilts. When her wedding was announced I asked her Mum for colour ideas and was told she "doesn't need any more quilts"!!! As her Mum is not a quilter, she just doesn't understand that we can never have enough quilts! Steph loves purple. She always has and I decided to include a bit, not a lot of purple in her quilt. I used the Metro Rings pattern

I've been playing a lot with doubling up my threads when quilting on both my domestic and longarm machines. I'll write a separate post about doubling threads on a domestic machine. This post I want to focus on combining 2 threads from Superior Threads. I've used Superior Brytes, which I think has recently been discontinued** and Omni #3157, Indian Paintbrush. The Brytes is a 30wt 3ply polyester thread that is nice and shiny. Since I can't get anymore of this, I don't want to

What do you do to prevent the outside edge seams of your quilt from unravelling when you don't have a border to contain those seams? We're taught that we don't need to back stitch when we are sewing quilt pieces together. It keeps the seams from getting to bulky. I only back stitch when I know my seams will be at the outer edge of the quilt. Another trick is to sew a stitch line close to the outside edge of the quilt top. This keeps the seams from coming undone.  This stitchi