I made this for my dear friend, Esther! It’s Edyta Sitar’s free Stargazer pattern, which I made for myself in blue and white, but it looks super pretty in purples! The back is red and blue because those are Esther’s other favourite colours! It’s my 11th finished quilt of 2020, and my second last one for the Christmas season!
Purple Stargazer quilt
Thousand Oaks finished
Thousand Oaks is finished and it’s so beautiful! This is my first professionally quilted quilt — Lynn Jones of Lynn’s Quilting Studio long armed it in an oak leaf and acorn pattern and it’s perfect!
Stargazer Quilt
I dream of a stack of blue and white quilts 🙂 In pursuance of this I decided to make up this simple free pattern from Edyta Sitar, available at her website, Laundry Basket Quilts. i had bought a layer cake of her new fabric line, Perfect Union. Combined with some low volume fabrics I already had, and a few more […]
Neon Lights Pillow
Worked on this pillow kit from Edyta Sitar’s Laundry Basket quilts over the last week and it was a wonderful introduction to English paper piecing. I really appreciated the convenience of having the fabric cut out for me. I made a few mistakes in the layout, but it doesn’t really matter in the end. The kit doesn’t include the pattern […]
Just got my copy of Pillow Talk!
I’ve already made Edyta Sitar’s Dot Dot Dot pillow three times, (I purchased the pattern from her website) but now I have the whole book of gorgeous pillow patterns! So excited! I’m very enthusiastic about this because of the variety of techniques featured and Edyta’s videos for Fat Quarter Shop about them. I know I’ll learn a lot as I […]
I’m addicted to appliqué pillows!
While I’m waiting for my copy of Edyta Sitar’s Pillow Talk book, I decided to buy and download the full quilt pattern from her website, which also includes the 18″ square pillow. The pattern is easy to follow — you appliqué a circle to a square of fabric, then sew the squares together to make a pillow or, in case […]