Pioneer Villages Are Always Good For Vintage Quilt Sightings A quilting frame at Fort Henry National Historic Site in Kingston, Ontario Fanshawe Pioneer Village Little did I know that as this summer progressed I'd be visiting a number of pioneer villages and would be seeing a great many old …
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Bag Pattern, The Zip & Flip, in American Quilter Magazine
You might have seen some of my quilt pattern designs in various magazines over the years, but now I have a bag pattern available in American Quilter Magazine, which is published by the American Quilter's Society. Be sure to check out the September issue of AQ Magazine for this new pattern. If you …
Brenda’s Quilt Scrapbook
Quilts made from other designers' patterns I made a lot of quilts and used a lot of published patterns before I began designing my own. Now-a-days I rarely get a chance to use other peoples patterns! Here's a scrapbook of some quilts (and a few other items) I made that aren't my own …
Bag Making and Quilt Shows Through The Years
Updated August 2017. A note from Brenda: I've been to a lot of events over the years, from quilt shows to bag making sewing classes and presentations at quilters guilds. I thought it was important to keep a record of some the places I've written about, so when we moved the blog I kept these older …
CreativFest Through the Years
A note from Brenda: I've been a fixture at CreativFest over the past few years, so pre-2017 blogs are gathered here into a single post. They appear in reverse chronological order, going back to Spring 2012. Fun At Festival April 29, 2015 I've just returned from CreativFestival in Mississauga, …
Shopping For Fabric on a June Roadtrip
Every once in a while it's nice to get away with friends to do some therapeutic shopping for fabric. So on an overcast June morning threatening rain, a bunch of us got together to do just that. The Red Red Bobbin At the Red Red Bobbin. This scene looks familiar! Our main goal was to visit a …