Every time we work on a patchwork project, we accumulate off-cuts of fabric. Maybe some of the larger pieces will be easily incorporated into another project, but what about the small pieces? The scraps that are too big to throw away, but not big enough to be useful on their…
Author: TodayWeDid
I spend my time sharing my love of reading, arts and crafts with my four children. I also review children's and YA books.
Online Courses
After much effort and time, we finally have our first fully online course up and ready to roll. We hope it will be the first of many such courses! This first course is a mystery quilt called Matilda. The course is self-paced, so you can work to your schedule. You…
Patterns in 2019
Happy New Year! Hope your 2019 is getting off to a wonderful start! Now, as you know, we were selling our digital patterns through the website Craftsy. However, over Christmas, Craftsy became Bluprint, and the pattern marketplace has been placed on an hiatus. We were included as one of the…
October Offer: A Year in the Land of Aus pattern set
The award-winning block of the month quilt, A Year in the Land of Aus, is now available as a full set of patterns, or as individual pattern blocks. Each block depicts a month in Australia, and can be made as individual mini- wallhangings or put together to make the quilt,…
Free Shipping Offer
It’s the first day of a long weekend here in New South Wales, and boy do we love long weekends! It’s a chance to relax, spend time with family, and of course sew, sew, sew! Gumnut Gear’s half price pattern clearance is still going, with $9.00 fat quarter bundles and finished…
Christmas Patterns
Coming out of the Gumnut Gear vault are two of our classic Christmas patterns, Puff Patches Christmas Tree and Santa Sack. Both are newly available through Craftsy, along with a new for download table runner pattern, It’s Time. Santa Sack is perfect for holding presents and other goodies ready for…
New Pattern: Chloe
This beautiful quilt was originally designed as a mystery marathon quilt. It uses a main feature fabric, which could be a novelty print, a big floral pattern or something similar. This makes it a perfect project for a fabric that might be a little different to what you would usually…
Fat Quarter Packs on sale
Our $9.00 fat quarter bundles have been walking out the door! Luckily we have found some more fats that were hiding away and we have been able to re-stock some of the packs. Packs 24, 25, 27 and 30 are now available in our online store. Grab a fat bargain…
New Pattern: Easy Peasey Quilt
Easy Peasey really is an easy quilt to make, and it looks fantastic. It uses 16 fat ¼s and 80cm of fabric for the first border and binding. Each block uses just two fabrics, but due to the way that the blocks are cut each quilt made from this pattern will…
It’s time
Well, after many years of selling physical paper patterns, Gumnut Gear is ready to go all digital! This move has benefits for us and for you! More space in the studio for us to create and design Less trips to the post office, giving us more time for teaching and…