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Ready to say 'oui' to gorgeous fabrics & projects? Our beloved Lookbook is HERE! This fabric project catalog showcases our collections and is packed with projects and ideas featuring Mademoiselle by Patty Basemi. Get inspired and see what you can create with our fabrics!

Come join me and flip through our lookbook book to get inspired!

Discover our FREE quilt pattern 'Bonjour Paris' and tons of project inspiration for your home decor, including charming accessories, chic apparel, and accessories each project showcases the beauty of our premium quilting cotton and available substrates.

*Featuring our Free Quilt Pattern: Bonjour Paris in Mademoiselle ...

This is a great pattern to use up jelly roll leftovers. In fact, a bunch of those (already conveniently sewn into sets) is what inspired this pattern.

The strip sets are 6 strips high and 12-1/2″ wide. The stars are also 12 inches (finished). I used a plan similar to THIS TUTORIAL: https://www.createwithclaudia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CWC-Mystery-Quilt-Along-2020-November-Block.pdf

I matched the star centers and the binding. I would like to do this again and highlight a focal fabric in the star centers.

This quilt will be donated to the local childrens hospital.

The youngest member of our family clan is really into animals, especially if they make a lot of noise. The lions and bears have been recently joined by dinosaurs. Whhraaahhh!

The last three designs I shared were either dense background designs or grid patterns. It is time for an edge to edge, don’t you think? Meet the design Dino Eggs. (Dinosaurs’ eggs wouldn’t have made a lot of noise, so I think we are safe to use them on our quilts! read more

Baby Henry should receive his quilt today.

While I usually work with small pieces, the simple, bold look of this quilt pleases me. And it allows larger prints to shine. And I love the unexpected-but-perfect binding.

The print squares started at 6″. The HST as squares of 6-1/2″. The quilt finishes at +-39″.

ps–I am not sure why these pictures are poor, but the quilt is in the mail, and I cannot retake them. I hope you can get the idea anyway. These things sometimes happen.

Today I’m sharing this fun fancy drink quilt block. When I think of fancy drinks, I think of drinks in fun glasses

The post Free Fancy Drink Quilt Block appeared first on Always Expect Moore.

You know how much I like using slightly different thread colors in my quilts, but for this FMQ design I absolutely recommend using a thread that blends with the fabric as much as possible. It is all about the texture!

The design Knitwear doesn’t really mimic any type of knitwear of knitting specifically, but it borrows the rhythmic sequence of arches. If you wanted the quilting to resemble knitting, the arches / ogee shapes would need to line up, instead of jumping up and down.

This design will look great on quilts with themes like winter, autumn, ‘sweater weather’, snow ...

Bonjour à toutes, Le Quiltcon est le salon du quilt moderne organisé par la Modern Quilt Guild américaine. Je suis membre depuis plusieurs années. Il a lieu alternativement une fois à l’est et l’autre fois sur l’ouest des USA. Cette année, c’était à Phoenix en Arizona. J’avais proposé ) Cécile de venir avec moi même […]

The post Quiltcon (partie 1) first appeared on Atelier de Cocopatch.

It doesn’t take much: 16 4-1/2″ squares of the feature fabric, and 2-1/2″ strips for the outer border. The squares are surrounded by 2 2-1/2x 4-1/4″ strips and 2 2-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ strips. Finishes at 36″ square.

And just plain cute!

This one goes to the new baby of a neighbor. She is the younger sister of the Georgia Quick Quilt baby.

Yay for babies! Hope and promise of the future wrapped in love today.

I’ve been having so much fun working on a giant Dresden bee quilt using a bee collection called Honey & Lavender by Deb Strain for Moda Fabrics. I first tried out the Dresden Plate Template for 10″ Squares from Missouri Star Quilt Company when I made my quilt project organizer bag which I talked about before HERE>, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew right then that I had to make a full-sized quilt using these oversized Dresdens.

Fabric link:

Fabric: Honey & Lavender still available HERE> and at Missouri Star Quilt Company at the time of me ...

I love me some dense pebbles, but they can become a bit repetitive. Often I use small pebbles to fill in between other bigger shapes, but pebble variations can be stunning by themselves.

This weeks’s design is a background filler design made out of circles in various sizes. The largest circle is about as big as the circle you can make with your fingers, when your index finger touches your thumb. Smaller circles are used to fill in the spaces in between.

This freemotion pattern will look great on quilts with themes like soap, soap bubbles, washing, cleaning, bathtub ...

This is the first of three projects created with fabric from Uganda: Tablerunner.

The approximate dimensions are 13″x60″.

The owner chose the purple binding, which is perfect, and the black backing. It has been a while since I did hand quilting, so it is a little rough, but the colors hide a lot. The tree skirt is next.

 Today I have another baby quilt finish to share. I missed adding this one to my list of quilts I hoped to make this year so I'll just count it as a bonus quiltThis is one of the first fabric lines I bought when I began quilting and  I've made numerous quilts with it. It was a Moda collection called Lily & Will from Bunny Hill Designs. Circa 2010-ish I think and after all these

Before we get on any further, I do want to share with you the news that I am now on Facebook. I know, I am really late to the party. At the moment, I am still just pressing buttons, and not quite knowing what I am doing. But if you are so inclined, give me a follow on https://www.facebook.com/wendysheppardquilts/

OH, and thank you for letting me know you weren’t able to follow. I have fixed it, I hope! I am still figuring things out!

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And today – we have our fourth check-in! Hopefully, you have gotten ...

Old project file, add new colours …. But no quilting in the first new design.
 

The second new design in the project has quilting motifs added.

Amazing what can be done early in the morning with a coffee and Electric Quilt.

Compared to the old colours these look like a newly washed quilt!

After a hiatus of entering quilt shows the last couple years, I just got the exciting news that Colorful Chaos was juried into the international quilt show in Paducah, KY!! There’s no pattern for this quilt because it’s part of my renewed push to make new and exciting experimental work that pushes me out of my comfort zone. I’m thrilled with how it turn out. Read more about it below….

Colorful Chaos, Front and Back
It will be hanging at the American Quilter’s Society Show April 23-26, 2025.

In this post I thought I would share ...

 Thought I'd give a progress report on the Winter Village Quilt I'm currently working on.

It's Called Winter Village by Edyta Sitar

The Pattern can be found at Laundry Basket Quilts but it is also in Edyta's Book A Season In Blue

I started working on this Quilt in April 2024

I made a good start following Edyta's YouTube instructions. But then like the Blackbird Crafter I am got sidetracked by lots of Shiny Little Projects...

Before we get on any further, I do want to share with you the news that I am now on Facebook. I know, I am really late to the party. At the moment, I am still just pressing buttons, and not quite knowing what I am doing. But if you are so inclined, give me a follow on https://www.facebook.com/wendysheppardquilts/

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And today – we have our third check-in! Hopefully, you have gotten the fabrics and patterns, or the kit to make the quilt with me. This is a SUPER easy log cabin quilt. Click HERE if you have ...