So I’m Blogging Now…

Hi there, I’m Peta and this is my very first blog post!.      I’m a quilter from Bris­bane, Aus­tralia and I have been sew­ing for around 13 years.     That’s a long time!  I’m sure none of you will be very sur­prised to learn that the birth of our eld­est child was what star­ted my quilt­ing journey :).

I’ve been a faith­ful blog read­er over the years but it was­n’t until quilt­ing took off on Ins­tagram that I felt like I’d really found my place in the world.   I LOVE Ins­tagram and hang out there a lot but I’ve recently found that I’m read­ing all the fab­ulous quilt­ing blogs again and thought it would be fun to join the blog­ging crowd.   Blog Lov­in’ makes it so easy to fol­low along with your favour­ite blogs now and I’d just love it if you added my blog to your read­ing list.   There’s a link in the side bar so you can add my blog or you can fol­low this link.

And because this is, after all, a quilt­ing blog and not a wordy blog I thought I’d share some pic­tures of some of my latest favour­ite things…

First up is my just fin­ished fam­ily quilt.   I love it!    I used the pat­terns Moda pro­duced for their Spell It With Moda blog hop last year to make all the words and was lucky enough to be able to get Abby of Latimer Lane Quilt­ing to quilt it for me.   She did the most per­fect job with a mod­ern orange peel quilt­ing design.

Next up is a treas­ure from one of the nicest people I’ve been lucky enough to meet because of quilt­ing.   Sam­antha and I arranged to meet after being in a bee togeth­er while I was recently in the United States to attend Quilt­Con.    She gave me this framed quilt art which will be hanging in pride of place in my new sew­ing room.  Isn’t it gor­geous!   Sam­antha hangs out on Ins­tagram, if you’re not already fol­low­ing her you really should, the work she does is amaz­ing and she is also just the nicest per­son ever!

Next up is some bee blocks I recently received from Rachel & Riann.   Aren’t they just ador­able!  If you did­n’t know bet­ter you’d think Rachel & Rian had been sew­ing side by side with how per­fectly these two blocks go together.

And finally a little cush­ion I recently fin­ished after attend­ing a fant­ast­ic work­shop with Betz White at Quilt­Con.   The cush­ion is from the Sweet Life Pil­low pro­ject in Bet­z’s book Per­fect Present.   It uses a style of appli­qué that was new to me and I can hon­estly say I’m hooked, its quick, fun and… there’s a tutori­al com­ing later this week which uses the same meth­od!   Stay tuned…

Thanks for pop­ping by my new blog, if you have any ques­tions or com­ments I’d love to hear from you and if you’d like to know a little bit more about me you can click here, it’ll take you to My Story page 🙂

Until next time,