Sewn Modern Quilt Patterns

The pattern is available now ya'll!  This is just a simple post that I hope inspires you when you are shopping for fabrics for your own version of the Origami Quilt Pattern. If you make one - please tag me on Instagram or Facebook: @SewnHandmade so I can see your gorgeous quilt.   This first version is the baby size of the quilt. I used a Rifle Paper Co floral by Cotton and Steel. The solid is a blue Essex Linen by Robert Kaufman. The background is actually a very old Carolyn Friedlander that you can't purchase anywhere anymore... I know this...

    You might have read that title and thought, "Huh?!" Last week at the North Texas Quilt Festival I had the wonderful opportunity to take a few classes and one of them was a class on Itajime Shibori. Cindy Lohbeck teaches several classes throughout the year. She sells all the supplies for her Itajime Shibori dyeing techniques on her website here: Hands-on Hand Dyes   Yes, they did stick us in a commercial kitchen for this class. Did I mention this gets messy?? Shibori is an ancient Japanese fabric resist dyeing technique that is used to create patterns on...

      Hello quilt-y friends! This quilt started as a sketch several months ago but slowly evolved into the real deal. I am so excited to be sharing my first quilt pattern with you all! I am also feeling pretty vulnerable in sharing what this quilt pattern means to me because of the season of life that it came out of.     (Did you know this is a FREE quilt pattern? All you have to do is join my email list and it will be sent to your inbox. CLICK HERE to sign up now!)   I woke up one...