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Banner Year is the first 3rd Story Workshop pattern that is traditionally pieced, and not paper pieced! This is a beginner-friendly pattern that comes together quickly and fits a nursery, pre-teen or teen's room or a living room depending on the colour palette you...
Quickest Tutorial (Ever): Cutting HSTs and Trimming Off Corners
Setting and re-setting your ruler can take valuable seconds, especially when you're doing it hundreds of times. Whether you're cutting HSTs or trimming off corners of a snowball blocks, this method lets you make a few cuts in one fell swoop. Line up (up to) four sets...
Tutorial: How to Chain Piece Rows
You know that moment when you've cut all your pieces for a project and you're ready to sew, sew, sew? It's the go-time moment. I think we all love this part - when we can just feed that beautiful fabric through the machine in one long chain. We can apply that chain...
Flying Buttresses
American Patchwork and Quilting's Challenge for QuiltCon 2018 was Flying Geese. The prompt asked participants to modernize a traditional flying geese block with any variation, and make it into a modern quilt using modern quilting elements. Finished quilts could be any...
Icebergs and Narwhals
I had the opportunity to develop another pattern from a commission (first one was the Sleepy Fox pattern) and this time, I went underwater. When my son's preschool teacher approached me about making a wall hanging for the classroom, I had in mind to try this business...
Looking Back on 2017
In March 2016, 3rd Story Workshop was born. It was born out of a need to carve out my own creative space that was separate from my two young kids. 2017 looked completely different from that. To start off the year, my guiding word was "GIVE." I wanted to invite people...