Big Bloom Quilt

December 13, 2025 VallLeave a comment

It’s been a super busy year, but we’re now in wind down mode, which means I can get to make some fun stuff. I sold out of all my appliqué quilts this year so that’s first priority.

I have a bin full of flower bits, I always seem to make flowers so no use fighting it. My templates are card stock cut into pedal and leaf shapes of all sizes. I made a large one last year that I love! It makes big happy flowers I often use on pillows, but couldn’t wait to use them on a quilt!

What will the quilt look like? No idea. Right now it’s 12.5 inch squares with big flowers

I’m using all Liberty, Work with what you love!

With the scraps from cutting out the flowers I’m making 3.5 inch squares with tiny flowers. I used the bondaweb method for those, too little to turn. I’m not a fan of this method as it looks so flat, But it uses up scraps. no plans for these square, just making them lol.

The huts still open until next Sunday, it’s sad when it closes for the winter.. hopefully that will change for next year.

That’s it for today, keep smiling!

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New Season Begins!

March 7, 2025 Vall2 Comments

Its still winter, however the snow is finally melting and the hut is accessible! I moved in some stock today, cleaned a few shelves and had more shelves delivered by Ikea today.

Above: Snow is melting!

This year will be a bit different. As we negotiate our way around a new world with a hostile neighbour to the south, I will be making changes. Some American brands and names will be disappearing from the hut, Poppie Cotton and most Riley Blake are leaving exceptions are Beverly McCullough & Minki Kim. Notions by Riley Blake like Vintage Trim, rulers, pins will also disappear. The notions are all made in China, the prices will be rising and its time to find new things!

Above: Liberty Of London’s new collection Flower Shop!

You will be seeing more UK brands, Liberty of London of course and Makower. I’m on the hunt for more non-American brands but it is honestly not easy. I don’t think I realized how dependant the quilting world is on the USA until now. It has felt like the world of stitching, making, has turned into a rut of buy and stash. It seems gone are the days of using quality materials to make fun, cherished projects. Time for a change!

There’s new kits for this year, this ones in works and should be ready for spring! Lots of happy Liberty flower prints just in time for flowers to start blooming!

Till next time, Elbows up!

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Tree Runner

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I am not a Christmas person, but I do love to decorate for winter. It adds personality to this old Victorian home during the bleak season. I’m obsessed with trees & mushrooms as they can stay out until Feb.

This runner was made with the liberty of London lines Merry & Bright and Woodland Christmas. There is no set pattern but here’s what I did, get creative and have fun.

Runner back ground was a 9 inch cut from a half yard piece of fabric, so it’s about 20 inch long once finished

To make the trees and mushrooms: Take some lightweight interfacing and draw triangles in various sizes, trunks, mushroom bottoms and tops making sure there’s around 1 inch between shapes. Cut the shapes leaving 1/2 inch around the drawn lines so you can sew and trim. Place on fabric with the fabric right side up,you will “trap” the fabric in the interfacing. For the trees and mushroom tops sew around the whole shape. Trim to 1/8 around the shape, make a slit in the centre of the interfacing and turn the shape right sides out. For the trunks and mushroom stems, you can leave the top open and turn through that. The tops will be tucked under the trees and mushroom tops to hide them.

Once they are turned tight side out, iron.

Lay out your back piece and place the trees and mushrooms where you want and pin in place.

Sew them by machine or hand to the background. I like to use the blanket stitch in my machine.

Once you have sewn them all down, add a boarder and finish as desired.

For appliqué shapes I like to draw the shapes on card stock so I can keep the templates. Mushroom and trees are easy as there’s no set shape. I have videos on my YouTube channel on how to make & sew the appliqués and how I finish runners

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Winter Wonderland Quilt

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I have been wanting to play with my winter Liberty prints for a long time, but I couldn’t come up with design I liked. While going through the Liberty website for inspiration, I found some patterns! Free ones! This quilt is three blocks, the tree is from one quilt, the star is one from another and the last block is.. scraps from making the stars!

Here are the links to the free downloadable patterns:

Tree: https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/craft/2020-festive-quilt-project.html

Use the templates & instructions for the simple tree block. You can add the house & other tree block too!

Star: https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/craft/merry-and-bright-liberty-quilt-project.html

Use the star block instructions. The pattern also has stars that are in a snowball that can also be used.

Scrap Snowflake Blocks:

Here is my YouTube video on how to sew scrap blocks when making flying geese for the stars:

I made 6 star blocks and used the scraps to make these fun snowflake blocks. Make 30 pinwheel blocks from your star scraps. Trim to 3 inches. To make the block, sew a patchwork of 5 pinwheels and (4) 3 inch squares of a background print per block.

All blocks I added a 2 inch boarder around and ended up trimming to 8 inches. It would be 9 or 8.5 but I mess one one up and just went with 8 inch

I made 42 blocks all together. The layout can be any combo of the blocks as it’s a snowy forest kinda look, feel free to add in other 8 inch blocks.. it’s your quilt, have fun!

I used 3.5 inch strips for the outer boarder.

Happy Sewing!

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Regent Street Block

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Its been a crazy summer as usual here, being on a major tourist route makes summer time fly by. I love meeting visitors from all over the globe, it makes it all worth it.

As my shop is so small, I have been thinking of ways to showcase new fabric collections, it has to be small as doing full quilts are hard to show off and June – Sept its very hard to even get a full quilt made. The solutions is pillows! I have been playing with fun blocks that use squares and strips, blocks that showcase the prints and can be beginner friendly. I have free pattern cards at the shop or you can use the post here to make the pillow or make several and make a quilt!

This pillow is made with the Woodland Walk Collection by Liberty Of London

Regent Street Block

18 inch Square

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A: (1) 2.5 inch square, (4) 2.5 x 16.5 inch

B: (4) 2.5 inch square

C: (16) 2.5 inch square

D: (4) 2.5 x 6.5 inch

E: (2) 2.5 x 10.5 inch

F: (2) 2.5 x 10.5 inch

To Sew:

Make the 9 patch in the center:

Sew together 2 sets of CBC and 1 set BAB.

Sew to form the 9 patch center.

Sew 2 sets of CDC

Sew 2 D strips to the side of the 9 patch.

Sew the two CDC strips to the top & Bottom

Sew 2 sets of CEC

Sew 2 F strips to the side of the 9 patch.

Sew the two CEC strips to the top & Bottom

Sew 2 sets of CAC

Sew 2 A strips to the side of the 9 patch.

Sew the two CAC strips to the top & Bottom

Get creative and use more or less then 6 prints

Have fun sewing! Vall

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Sewing for Christmas

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It’s the time of year I wish I had more time to prepare for! It’s been a busy fall at the shop, new stuff arriving, clearing out older stock and making room for a Christmas section, which is starting to look rather nice.

I’m loving the scrappy tree pillows, I have a pattern written and will hopefully have it up for sale soon.

I wanted to have some unique, non Christmas stuff out in the shop & this weekends market in Riverside Albert for Christmas in the Country, so I made up a double decker bus pillow & working on a Liberty pillow tonight

What will it be? Find out when it’s finished 😊

Happy Sewing!

Exploring & Road Trips · Fundy Trail · Sewing Projects · Shop Updates

Is it Spring Yet?

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Its Easter, finally. This has been a long winter, I can’t wait to see the end of the cold white stuff outside. I have planted tulips & hyacinths in the house, they always cheer me up this time of year.

The runner is one of my favorites. Appliqued orange peels made with vintage feedsack prints on a simple linen runner.

Orange peels can be made in many ways, I like to use the Sue Daley leaf papers. I prep the papers the same way as for any English paper piecing project but once glued I give it a good iron, remove the papers and press again. They are then ready to use.

For this runner I used a marking pen to mark grid lines, laid the orange peels out and pinned down. Then hand sewed them on. Simple & vintage.

Explore Fundy:

Harvey Bank

This is a little gem, a light house, anchor and skeleton of a ship. This sweet spot is in Harvey Bank located on Marys Point Road, just off route 915. If you are heading to Cape Enrage or Waterside its a must stop. Its not very far from route 915, quiet, quaint and well worth the stop. Who doesn’t like finding light houses? Its small but cute!

Shop Updates:

The Liberty of London line London Parks is in and yes there are some London City Prints! I LOVE this line! Along with London icons there are tulips, coronations, and other assorted florals, all those pretty things Liberty is famous for!

I couldn’t wait to use these prints, made a simple pillow with fussy cut center squares of the Tower of London and Big Ben!

There were a few new things in the shop this week, some of the Bee Vintage line by Lori Holt showed up in fat quarter bundles, charms packs and 10 inch squares. New notions like quilt clips in the sweetest tin. Pins with campers & birds are in too!