ARTICLES ABOUT: WIFE-MADE

Squaring up a quilt top is not a particularly unusual element of the quilting process. While you may not care to bother doing it with most traditionally pieced quilts (and if I'm honest, I often don't bother unless I have been particularly sloppy in my piecing...

This strip-piecing tips video tutorial will prove to you just how fast and forgiving the Strudel quilt is to make, because sometimes a fast, fun make is just what the doctor ordered, right? I should also mention it's the kind of quilt you can just ENJOY making while...

The Wife-made Oven Mitt Kit sewing pattern is my latest release and I am SUPER excited to finally be able to share it with you! I've wanted to write an oven mitt sewing pattern for ages. You know when you have an idea, and you know how to do it and you want to do it,...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled quilty/sewing/creative programming to bring you this important news update on homemade cashew milk.  Yep, you heard right, I did put those three words together in a sentence and share them on my sewing blog.  And I realise they...

Last week I blogged a video tutorial on how to piece the curved blocks in my Palma Quilt pattern and this week I wanted to follow it up with a little hack that I came up with for squaring up (or blocking) the curved blocks once they have been pieced. How to correct...

Long long ago, when past-Xanthe had no immediate family to care for and far too much time on her hands, she decided to make a quilt.   And that's pretty much the sum total of all the thought processes that went into making the decision!  I saw a pattern in a magazine...

This week I was featured on the Shannon Fraser Design blog for the 'What's In Your Sewing Bag' series!  So, grab a cuppa and head over to the blog now to read about what I have (or more to the point, don't have) in my sewing kit. Thanks for including me, Shannon.  It...

It's the Espalier Pattern release day and I'm excited to share my newest design with you! Now, I really admire manicured gardens.  In fact, I really admire manicured lots of things, although as I write this I am realising that I am a particularly un-manicured kind of...