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…
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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…
Latest finish…..
A few years ago I thought I would make a Bookshelf quilt for Sara and her husband Lee. I printed some family photos onto fabric, I gathered up some ribbons and braids to add to the fabrics to look like book bindings. Started to cut fabrics for the books, the…
Social distancing…
With all the social distancing happening at moment, it has to be hard for the children to understand why they suddenly and for who know how long can’t spend time wth their grandparents. One of my granddaughters asked me “if we are self isolating properly and Grandad and you are…
What a year!
2020 wow, what a year so far. Horrific bush fires followed by some beautiful rain on drought stricken land and now the Coronavirus. We will get through this and come out well on the other side, whenever that may be. Now, I’m into my 3rd week without classes, a very…
Finally finished!
Some years ago I designed a quilt called “Chloe’s Quilt”, the quilt top was made for a Mystery Quilt Weekend. The weekend came and went, we then went on and sold many patterns and kits for it – but still the quilt remained unfinished. Guilt got the better of me…
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…
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…
2nd Place
A few years ago, two of my sisters travelled to Japan. Whilst they were there they purchased some beautiful Japanese fabrics, which they gave to me. There were seven different fabrics in reds, yellows, blues and purples. I tossed around what to do with them for quite some time, before…
A change in direction….
Running a patchwork and quilting business is hard work, it can be plenty of fun, yes, but it is hard work none the less. And we’ve been doing it for many years now (…some of us can claim decades!) through traditional and modern stylings, country and bright shades, market stalls,…