Happy Australia Day & A New Pattern Release

I fig­ure when you design a quilt pat­tern that’s a map of Aus­tralia it just makes sense to release it on Aus­tralia Day does­n’t it?   So today I’m tak­ing a quick break from the vegem­ite, lam­ing­tons and pavlova to let you know that Aus­tralia, a paper pieced quilt pat­tern is now avail­able in my shop.   And, since today is Aus­tralia Day all PDF pat­terns are 26% off with the dis­count code ‘LUCKY’.

You can get your own copy of the Aus­tralia quilt pat­tern, or any of my oth­er pat­terns by click­ing here.

I blogged about the Aus­tralia quilt last year and shared a bag my friend Cat had made by using the paper piecing tem­plates in their ori­gin­al size.    I love everything Cat does but these bags are so great and, she’s made anoth­er one.   I love it so much I could­n’t res­ist shar­ing it with you all.

I fig­ure that there’s a fair pos­sib­il­ity that a few of you don’t know what a lam­ing­ton or pavlova is?  So, rather than leave you guess­ing, I thought I’d share a couple of links to recipes for them by my favour­ite Aus­trali­an Chef, Donna Hay.    They are both truly deli­cious and I know if you give them a try you’ll love them as much as us Aus­sies do.

For the Lam­ing­ton Slice recipe click here.

And for the Clas­sic Pavlova recipe click here.

Happy Aus­tralia Day!