My Story

Wel­come to She Quilts Alot!

My name is Peta Peace and I’m a quilter who’s been mak­ing and cre­at­ing for 14 years.   That seems like such a long time and when I look back it sure is a lot of quilts!

When I’m not sew­ing and quilt­ing I am a wife to my super spunky best friend Richard (he ser­i­ously is!) and a Mum to our two beau­ti­ful girls.    Some­where in all of that I also run my own non quilt related business.

We are lucky enough to call Bris­bane, Aus­tralia home.   I love the small town feel of this city and the fant­ast­ic weath­er we have.….. except in Janu­ary & Feb­ru­ary when the really high humid­ity hits and my hair goes crazy!

I hope you enjoy this little blog.  If you have any ques­tions, or just want to say hi!, I’d love to hear from you.

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36 thoughts on “My Story

  1. Hi Peta! I’m so excited to read your blog! Your IG pics are always SO lovely and your pro­jects always inspire! I LOVE your fam­ily quilt–such a won­der­ful idea, and sure to be a treas­ure for years to come! Cheers!

    1. Hi Peta’
      I loved read­ing your story. You are such a great tal­ent. I wanted to tell you I haven’t quilted for sev­er­al years, I have three kids that have kept me busy. Recently I star­ted back and have enjoyed it so much. Your book “A Piece of Cake “was my inspir­a­tion. I love every quilt in this nook which is really unusu­al. Most of the time you are lucky to find more than one in any book you really love. I hon­estly think I’ll make every quilt in this book . Thanks for inspir­ing me.

  2. Hey Peta,
    This is all very excit­ing and look­ing for­ward to see­ing more. Con­grats on your blog

    1. Thanks Debbie, it sure is excit­ing. Still learn­ing heaps but look­ing for­ward to that part too.

  3. Hi Peta, I’m a bris­bane girl too! I have fol­lowed you on Ins­tagram for a while now. Love all your stuff. I look for­ward to you shar­ing your quilt­ing world! Congrats!!
    Angela O’Rourke

    1. Yay Angela, Bris­bane is just such a great place to live isn’t it! Thanks so much for your kind­ness and for good wishes 🙂

  4. Hello Peta,
    Con­grat­u­la­tions on your new jour­ney of blog­ging. Look­ing for­ward to “keep­ing my eye on you” and shar­ing your pages of dia­logue. Your fam­ily quilt is gor­geous, I’m yet to sew my alpha­bet togeth­er, sigh — one day. Once again, best wishes.

    1. Thanks Deb, it really is such an enjoy­able pro­ject sew­ing the let­ters. Thanks for ‘keep­ing an eye on me’ 🙂

  5. I am anoth­er IG’er who,has fol­lowed you for awhile…it is a bit creepy sounding.….and am thrilled you’ve dived into blog­ging. I love check­ing out people’s blogs, although I don’t blog myself. Your fam­ily quilt is won­der­ful as is the oth­er sew­ing of yours that I’ve seen. I look for­ward to ‘hanging out’ with you here.

    1. Thanks Ann, its excit­ing just think­ing about the pos­sib­il­it­ies that a blog provides. Can­’t wait to share more and so glad you’ll be hanging out with me here too 🙂

  6. Yeah, Peta! So excited for this new blog­ging adven­ture for you! So glad I got to meet you in Austin!

    1. Oh thanks Mag­gie, so great to meet you to o and so grate­ful you’ve come to check the blog out 🙂

  7. Well, hello there! Wel­come to the world of blog­ging, looks like you’ve picked up the hang of it very quickly. I’m look­ing for­ward to more Peta good­ness, but in the long form now! Have fun x x

  8. Thank you for post­ing a tutori­al for the yel­low and white pil­low that I reques­ted. I also did not get the pat­tern for your Lay­er Cake Coin quilt in bright sun fab­ric. I joined after the pat­tern was sent in an email. Would it be pos­sible for you to send the Lay­er Cake Coin quilt to me?

    1. Hi Judy, thanks for your sweet com­ment. I’ll send the PDF to you now, it will have come through auto­mat­ic­ally but ended up in the pro­mo­tions folder or worse…the spam folder. It’s worth check­ing in both of those places. Thanks again. X

    2. Hi Peta, i have just star­ted your Bloom quilt pat­tern now that Sug­ar Pie fab­ric is out in the States. Thank you for mak­ing a pat­tern with the press­ing dir­ec­tions. As a new­er quilter (13 months) I really appre­ci­ate them, they help the blocks go togeth­er so eas­ily. Thanks again!
      Barbara

  9. Hi! By chance, do you do your quilt­ing on a Statler Stitch­er? I noticed how beau­ti­ful the quilt­ing is!

  10. Hi,
    Could you please tell me the fab­ric col­lec­tion you use to make “Play­ing Around Again”? I love the col­ors and would like to try and find it. Also, love your “Piece if Cake Book” beau­ti­ful quilts.

  11. Plan­ning to make your Simplest Sampler just as shown in A Piece of Cake (great book!), I know the main fab­ric pat­tern is Hand­made, which I love, but could you tell me what is the aqua back­ground fab­ric? Such a gor­geous col­or! Thanks, Peta. All of your quilts are so beautiful.

  12. I just signed up for your email list but did­n’t get the free pat­tern email. Please resend. Thanks. I love the pat­tern and have the per­fect lay­er cake for it! Thanks again.

  13. Dear Peta,
    I am really inter­ested in get­ting the lay­er cake coin pat­tern. I have registered my email sev­er­al times and each time I get the response that the pat­tern is being emailed right away but it nev­er comes. I have checked my junk box also. Could you please tell me how to obtains this pat­tern. I love your ideas and fab­ric choices.
    Sin­cerely mamiepj@yahoo.com

  14. I’m very new to quilt­ing and have my sew­ing room set up , well still need more shelves and draw­ers. I’ve pur­chased a few fab­rics for pos­sibly 3 of my
    first /practice quilts 😉.
    Enjoyed view­ing this quilt with the easy tutori­al which I’ll use for a quilt I’m mak­ing for my mom and her twin sis­ter my aunt.
    So glad I came across your site on Pinterest. 🌹🌹

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