by Katy Cameron | 15.04.2019 | My Makes, Quilt Makes
So the day finally came after nearly 4 years, and my Supersized Small World is pieced, quilted, bound and photographed! I started making this quilt as part of a sew along that sprang up when Jen Kingwell’s My Small World pattern was first published in Quilt...
by Katy Cameron | 16.04.2018 | Quilt Making Basics, Tutorials
If there’s ever anything guaranteed to get people’s knickers in a twist in the quilting world, it’s the concept of the 1/4″ seam, scant or otherwise. In all areas of sewing a seam allowance is the bit of fabric between the stitching line and...
by Katy Cameron | 30.10.2017 | My Makes, Quilt Makes
Last week I posted about the challenges of using the lovely big prints that some designers produce in quilting cotton, and coincidentally this week the weather was finally nice enough to take a photo of a quilt I finished just before I went on holiday, which is a good...
by Katy Cameron | 23.01.2017 | Quilt Making Basics, Tutorials
A traditional quilt top is made up of equally sized blocks, stitched together to form a square or rectangular grid. As I came to assemble my Super Size Economy Block quilt, it occurred to me that the way I sew mine together is not exactly the way that convention...
by Katy Cameron | 20.10.2013 | My Makes, Quilt Makes
To be honest, of all my selfish sewing projects, this was the one that I was most looking forward to actually getting to! I had bought a FQ rainbow voile bundle from Westwood Acres some time ago, and I knew I didn’t want to do anything fussy with it given the...
