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One Lovely Blog Award | Shannon Fraser Designs

August 23, 2016 by Shannon 10 Comments

OMG – I’ve been nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award!! I recently noticed a few posts about the One Lovely Blog Awards, but I’ve been so busy with my secret sewing projects and pattern testing, that I didn’t have a chance to dig into what it was all about. That changed the other day when I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: celebration, Quilting Community, Thankful

Kaleidoscope Festival Quilt

August 16, 2016 by Shannon 8 Comments

Triangle block details of the Festival Quilt featuring Kaleidoscope Collection | Shannon Fraser Designs

Remember that secret project I was working on earlier this year?! Well, I’m so excited that I finally get to share it with you!!  You know my love for Camelot Fabrics (you can see my other collaborations with them: here, here, and here), so I was thrilled to get to play with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quilting Tagged With: Camelot Fabrics, Fabric, Quilt Market, Quilting

Top 10 quilting tools you need to get started

August 9, 2016 by Shannon 8 Comments

Top 10 Quilting Tools to get Started | Shannon Fraser Designs

Today it’s all about tools! Specifically, the top 10 quilting tools you need to get started quilting! A couple of my modern quilt guild members and I were interviewed about our quilting community a few weeks ago, and one of the questions that popped up was “What are the top tools to get started … [Read more...]

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Sharing a Love for Quilting

August 7, 2016 by Shannon 4 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure, along with a couple of my Montreal Modern Quilt Guild members, of sitting one evening on a park bench being interviewed about all things quilty! A reporter for the local French newspaper LaPresse had reached out to our guild to ask us to share about our … [Read more...]

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Happy Coloring Book Day

August 2, 2016 by Shannon 6 Comments

I have always loved arts and crafts. It’s one of the few subjects that I actually won an award in high school. It was also my favourite segment on the Polka Dot Door. Do you remember that show? Yeah, that’s going back a few decades ;) But it gives you an idea of how long being creative has been my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Artists, Coloring Books, Colour

The Quilter’s Planner 2017

July 26, 2016 by Shannon 9 Comments

There has been a resurgence in planner popularity in the last couple of years, but not all are created equal! And The Quilter's Planner has been created specifically for us quilters!!  I’m generally a digital kind of girl, preferring to go as paper free as possible. But when it comes to … [Read more...]

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Hi! I'm Shannon. A modern quilt pattern designer based in Montreal. My quilting journey started by stumbling upon a half square triangle tutorial and I've been hooked since. I'm now spreading that quilty joy to you! Read More…

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Machine quilting at home is a skill that grows with every quilt you make. I’m sharing the lessons I learned while quilting my Cloud Surfing quilt on a domestic sewing machine, including planning quilting lines, working with a guide bar, basting, lighting and learning to embrace the imperfect parts along the way. #MachineQuilting #DomesticMachineQuilting #QuiltingTips #ModernQuilting #QuiltingAtHome

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Explore the colour, machine quilting and hand-stitched details of this Cloud Surfing quilt—and why every unfinished quilt has its own season.

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