A new way to bind your quilts by machine
This binding looks like a regular quilt binding on the front, but it has 4 differences. It’s cut wider, it’s sewn with a 3/8” (1 cm) seam...
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Alaura
- Oct 4, 2023
- 1 min
9 blocks, 9 quilting techniques
Meet our Twilight Dreaming Quilt. A quilt-as-you-go applique quilt, with 9 blocks each with a new quilting technique! This was our first...
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Alaura
- Sep 21, 2023
- 3 min
The ebbs and flows of designing
Good news: my Aussie Babies applique collection is complete, and I am 50% of the way through creating all the PDF pattern sheets. Allow...
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Alaura
- Sep 15, 2023
- 2 min
AUSSIE BABIES UPDATE 2
Thank you so much for your lovely comments on our blog and social media. It made me really excited, and I stayed up last night colouring...
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Alaura
- Sep 14, 2023
- 2 min
Aussie Babies update
First look at my Baby Platypus and Baby Wombat. I have been busy behind the scenes drawing and editing our website while Mum works on her...
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Monica Poole
- Jul 28, 2023
- 1 min
BAGUETTE BAG – FREE PATTERN AND TUTORIAL
I love this bag, it’s so cute and stylish! I just throw in my lipstick, phone and keys, tuck it under my arm and head out for a lunch...
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Alaura
- Jun 27, 2023
- 4 min
The first look at my next applique series...
Last night, inspiration struck, so I grabbed my trusty Ipad and began to draw. This is the first look at my next applique series, Aussie...
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Alaura
- Jun 26, 2023
- 5 min
Memory Lane
While shuffling through an array of our many scrap fabric boxes on a quest to create a new applique, my attention shifted to a heavy tub...
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Alaura
- Jun 22, 2023
- 1 min
Quilt as you go, Master Class,
Island Home, a quilt as you go quilt made with six methods of quilt as you go. The perfect master class for those looking to dive into...
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Alaura
- Jun 20, 2023
- 1 min
The Quilt as you go Chronicles
Meet our I, Valentine Quilt. A medallion-style quilt as you go quilt - that doesn't look quilt as you go! The Quilt as you go Chronicles...
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Alaura
- Jun 16, 2023
- 4 min
10 Easy Quilts to Get You Started With Quilt-as-you-go!
So, you want to make a quilt-as-you-go quilt but may be unsure where to start. Here are 10 quick and easy designs that also have FREE...
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Alaura
- Jun 9, 2023
- 2 min
MAKE THIS BOW BAG
A bag project that isn't made like a typical handbag! Remember making handbags for people out of patchwork fabric, and you would step...
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Monica Poole
- May 26, 2023
- 5 min
My best machine-sewn binding yet, and how you can do it too!
The I, Valentine quilt is complete! I love that feeling of accomplishment, we did it! Another quilt course and YouTube video series. All...
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Alaura
- Feb 23, 2023
- 4 min
Free Motion Applique Quilting Made Easy
In this blog post, I will discuss what free motion applique quilting is, some of Monica's best tips, and an easy project explicitly...
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Alaura
- Feb 3, 2023
- 4 min
2023 MYSTERY QUILT THEME REVEALED!
Every year mum has a saying, last year was "2022, the year to do you", and now it is "2023, the year to love me". This sentiment of...
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Alaura
- Oct 20, 2022
- 3 min
NATURE'S CREATURES PART FOUR: THE BUTTERFLY!
It has already been four weeks since I started Nature's Creatures, and as cliche as it sounds, it went so fast! If you are just joining...
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Alaura
- Sep 28, 2022
- 3 min
FUN PROJECT IDEAS FOR THE NATURE'S CREATURES COLLECTION
One applique collection with endless possibilities! What will you make? The Nature's Creatures applique collection is a range of 16...
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Alaura
- Sep 20, 2022
- 4 min
NATURE'S CREATURES
ALAURA'S NEW APPLIQUE COLLECTION It has been a while (almost two years) since I designed an applique series, and a lot has happened...
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Alaura
- Sep 14, 2022
- 7 min
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ISLAND HOME!
Our Island Home YouTube series has finished, but this is not the end! Now the course is complete; we can run another sew-along! In this...
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Monica Poole
- Aug 31, 2022
- 5 min
QUILT AS YOU GO BORDER AND BINDING: Island Home Part 13.
Rewind back to January 2022, and the Island Home Quilt was still in the planning stages. The idea was to design and teach a...
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Monica Poole
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
JOINING OUR QUILT TOGETHER: Island Home Part 12.
WOW! I can't beleive that we are at part 12! The final applique block and joining our quilted sections together. Interested in the Island...
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Monica Poole
- Aug 3, 2022
- 2 min
NO WASTE FLYING GEESE: Island Home Part 11.
Search Flying Geese on Pinterest or Google and you will find endless variations of this classic patchwork block. In part 11 we explore...
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Monica Poole
- Jul 20, 2022
- 1 min
THE JOINING STRIP METHOD: Island Home Part 10.
Our quilt as you go quilt is growing! Watch the video here: Interested in the Island Home course notes? This is how you get them: Pay as...
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Monica Poole
- Jul 6, 2022
- 12 min
The qayg cover strip method, everything that you need to know.
Back in 2005 I wanted to make a crazy patchwork quilt but I didn’t want to make it in the traditional way. I wanted to make it quilt as...
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