Foxes Foxes Foxes
This quilt is one of three recent finishes in a similar style. This Foxes Foxes Foxes design is great for digging into your fabric scraps. One floral fox is my feature fox and the binding is this black and grey honeycomb print. I used the same floral print for the
Dog House
Welcome summer!!! And Happy Canada Day, eh!!! This quilt features a house full of dogs. One is really enough… These dogs each have a ball or a bone. How much is that doggy in the window? The pattern has two dog poses: sitting or standing, one in each window and
Dogs Dogs Dogs
This quilt is one of three recent finishes in a similar style. This Dogs Dogs Dogs design is great for digging into your fabric scraps. One black dog is my feature dog and the binding is this black and grey honeycomb print. The backing has psychedelic dogs and rainbows, but
Cats Cats Cats
This quilt is one of three recent finishes in a similar style. This Cats Cats Cats design is great for digging into your fabric scraps. One black cat is my feature cat and the binding was made to match. The backing has goldfish in a pond, but needed a little
Catholes quilt finish
For those of you who aren’t offended by a cat’s butt… Thank you for understanding why I had to share this design. Cat’s don’t mean to offend anyone either. Happy cats like to hold their tails high. Like a mood gauge, you can tell a cat feels comfortable around you
Farm Fun and some sun
On June 21st, my sister and I celebrated the first day of summer and National Indigenous Peoples Day by taking a quilt for a drive to Kettle Point, Ontario. Just across the lake from the USA. The shore was covered in shale. A very pleasant place for dipping your toes
Hay is for Horses
Finally some sun! I have been busy working on my flower gardens… and was finally able to get some photos of my latest finishes.… The quilting was done using a blue variegated thread on top and in the bobbin. I love the special sparkle it adds to this quilt. The
It’s Trash Day!
Today it really is trash day here on William Street. And it’s Monday. Oscar feels the same way about Monday’s every day. I had a narrow strip of the rubber duckies left over for widening the backing. Quilted in my organic wavy lines! Added two small strips to my binding
How to get to Sesame Street
Today I’m sharing my Ernie and Bert wall hanging. This quilt was hung in my backyard on the old bed headboard I found roadside. Ernie requested rubber duckies for the backing. Quilted in my organic wavy lines! I added triangle corner pockets for easy hanging. My Ernie & Bert quilt
MOD PODS
Fresh rhubarb? Hello SPRING!!! It has been cool, damp and cloudy, but I consider it officially spring when I can post a photo of quilts hung outside without snow as a backdrop. This quilt was hung in my backyard on the old bed headboard I found roadside. I mish-mashed a
Wednesday Wash Day
Finished this Wednesday Wash Day quilted wall hanging and the pattern is now listed in my shop! These three little kittens lost their mittens. Then found them and washed them. Now they’re hanging them out on the line to dry! I made corner triangle pockets for a hanging rod. Pattern
Cat Runner
I had so much fun making the Cat Tree wall hanging that I immediately wanted to make a kitty cat table runner too! The quilting is my usual organic wavy lines from edge to edge, using a rainbow variegated on top and plain white thread in the bobbin. My Cat
Cat Tree
It’s becoming increasingly obvious…. You can’t have too many cats. The quilting is my usual organic wavy lines from edge to edge, using plain white thread. My Cat Tree quilt finished at 25” x 31”. Made two little corner pockets for hanging. Planning to donate to the local cat cafe!
Weiner Dog
Weiner Dog is in the mail!!! He’s heading for my niece’s home, along with a wee weiner dog stuffie. My niece and her husband are expecting their first baby! And have already been waiting a loooooong time. The quilting is my usual organic wavy lines from edge to edge, using
Spring Giveaway!!!
I don’t know about you…. but I can’t wait for SPRING! I found these pretty fat quarters last time I went fabric shopping. Perfect for 3 friends! Made this pouch one day because I wanted to use the rainbow scrap from my Noah’s Ark quilt. It’s very deeeep! Perfect for
Zoo Keeper
Introducing Zoo Keeper 1 and Zoo Keeper 2! Zoo Keeper 1 features a zebra and a giraffe. Zoo Keeper 2 features an elephant, some bananas and a few cheeky monkeys. Both of these are backed in a cozy minky that inspired me to design these zoo animals. Planning on donating
Book Shelf Cats
Happy little kittens on a book shelf. This sweet make reminds me a lot of my first quilt, designed with my daughter in mind. She loved cats and she loved reading. And still does! She will be graduating from university this spring and will be a physical education teacher! I
Bookkeeper Quilt
Bookkeeper is my first finish for 2024!!! And we have snow for a bright white background. I decided to make a narrower bookshelf for the backing. I used a bit of improvisation and made the Good Book on the top shelf. I adore the cool blues and greens used for
Cats in Hats
Thank you so much for joining me in celebrating over ten years of Sew Fresh Quilts! My very first blog post was on December 24th of 2012, back when I used blogger here ❄️ Even after all this time, quilting still gives me a lot of satisfaction. And I am
Cozy Dogs
This quilt is my second last finish for the year. This is Cozy Dogs, featuring dogs lounging on comfy chairs. My chairs feature festive forest birds of winter. I chose dog fabrics from my neutral scrap buckets. My favourite of all the poses is this one with his paw hanging
