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Listen to two quilters talk, and it may sound like a foreign language to the uninitiated. Quilting has its own set of acronyms and terms that are c...

Are you looking for a quick and easy scrap busting project? Grab your scrap basket and let's make some Star Gems blocks! Star Gems is a modern scra...

Do you love chain piecing as a time-saving quilting technique? What if I told you you could piece a whole quilt block, and even an entire quilt, in...

What's your favourite thing to spot on a woodland walk? I have to say I love mushrooms. Not on my plate, mind you, but I love spotting them in the ...

Have you ever looked at the tiles in a kitchen or bathroom in someone else's house and thought "that would make a great quilt pattern"? I know I ha...

Holiday Spirit is the newest Penny Spool Quilts Christmas pattern, and available in the pattern shop here. This is a fun pattern to put together, a...

Meet your next modern Christmas quilt project. The Holiday Spirit quilt pattern is Fat Quarter and Fat Eighth friendly and is perfect for a bundle...

Is there a new baby in the (extended) family or your circle of close friends? Or do you make charity quilts for young families? I have the perfect ...

The air is getting a definite crispness to it, a few leaves are starting to turn colour, and school is about to start up again. What better way to ...

I recently wrote about the scrappiest scrappy quilt I've ever made, that I had nicknamed the Confetti Quilt, and then turned into three mini charit...

When was the last time you went to the circus? Switzerland had a number of travelling circuses when I was growing up, so we went almost every year ...

Welcome back to the HST tutorial series! In this last half-square triangle tutorial, we're going to look at how to make HSTs eight at a time.  This...