Category: Quilting

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See Cassie Make 1st Published Pattern

I am thrilled to announce I have a pattern in the upcoming issue of Make Modern, issue 44 that will be released at 3:30 pm MST (Phoenix, AZ time) on January 13, 2022 for those of you in the United States and 9 am ACDT on January 14, 2022 for those of you in Australia. It has been a goal since I created See Cassie Make to have patterns published in a quilting magazine. I went BIG for my first one and designed a queen sized sampler style quilt with fun multi-sized quilt blocks and a non-traditional setting. The pattern is named Octagon Dreams. The rainbow fabrics featured in this stunning quilt were all hand dyed by me. The blocks range in size from 6″ to 30″ square. The final quilt size is 90″ x 108″. It fits a queen size bed beautifully.

The Make Modern team was so great to work with and I hope we will be partnering up again for future projects. See below for some details about Make Modern and the other amazing projects you will find in this issue. If you want to get your hands on a copy I will post the link as soon as it is available. Until then new subscribers get instant access to the current issue which means that if you sign up over the next week (before the next issue is published) you’ll get a bonus issue. Just click the Make Modern circle!

The Make Modern team is spread across all corners of Australia, and their contributors come from all over the world. Subscribers live in over 70 different countries! Take a close look at their pages and you might notice a little change from this issue onwards as they embrace the globalization of their contributors.

In this issue we MEET three makers – Carole Lyles Shaw from USA, Donna Ward from New Zealand and Cait Lisle from England; we MAKE that stunning curvy cover quilt from Germany, a Bear Paw quilt from Jersey near France (I’ll admit I had to look this country up!), the cutest little bird pouch from Russia, as well as quilts from India, Ireland, and the USA!; and we MOTIVATE readers to dive into their fabric stashes to create a rainbow and learn about color theory with a brand new six-part series on Color Theory! Happy quilting, wherever you are in the world!

Included Patterns:

  • Bitter Lemon Quilt by Anke B. Calzada (@pasacana_designs)
  • Go Big Baby Bear Quilt by Sue Bone (@justsewsue)
  • King’s Belt Quilt by Daisi Toegel (@daisitoegel)
  • Bird Pouch by Marushka Volkova (@marushka.volkova)
  • Synergy Quilt by Preeti Harris (@sewpreetiquilts)
  • The Amethyst Hour Quilt by Sindhu Aragam (@creativeclutterroom)
  • Cleveland Ricky Quilt by Rita Geyermann
  • Windy Day Quilt by Sarah Schneider (@sarahs.softies)
  • Spring Weather Table Runner by Cait Lisle (@caitlisledesigns)
  • Octagon Dreams Quilt by Cassie Howard (@seecassiemake)

Featured Articles:

  • Tips + Techniques by Alyce Blyth (@blossomheartquilts): Flying Geese – Solo or Squad?
  • DIY Design by Tara Glastonbury (@stitchandyarn): Designed to Last
  • Cloth Confidential by Wendy Wild (@thenextstitch): Revival Arrivals
  • Quilt Like a Rock Star by HollyAnne Knight (@stringandstory): Quilting Plans for Samplers and other Traditional Quilts
  • Colour Theory: Colour Wheel by Alyce Blyth (@blossomheartquilts)
  • The Magic to Avoiding Neck Pain by Rose Parr (@healthyquilting)
  • Smash That Stash: Stringing it Along (@janekellyquilts)
  • Meet the Maker: Carole Lyles Shaw (@carole_lylesshaw)
  • Meet the Maker: Donna Ward (@donnawardnz)
  • Meet the Maker: Cait Lisle (@caitlisledesigns)

Octagon Dreams was designed and sewn by Cassie Howard. It was quilted by Cindy Stohn of @sewcoolquilts. Head shot photography of Cassie used above was done by Lauren Ashby of Lauren Ashby Photography

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An Organized Workspace

I keep accumulating more things ribbons, fabrics, books, thread, yarn, etc… and I have such a small workspace/sewing area that it was beginning to be so cluttered. I would have to move a pile out of the way to cut out fabric. Then, I would move the pile out of the way to get to one sewing machine, then the other. And on and on and on. I was drowning in sewing supplies. Yet…. you can never have too many supplies. What I needed was to utilize the wall. Shelves would need to go up. I found some awesome floating shelves….crazy expensive is what they were. Part of the reason I have taken up sewing so much is to save money. So, I hit up our local hardware store and picked up some cheap particle board shelves with some brackets. I even splurged an extra $2 and got two brackets that would hold a dowel rod for my ribbons!

Here is my little corner of the basement/playroom. I still have boxes and bins full of fabric and old clothes to cut up for fabric under all the tables. I’m also thinking of getting one more shelf.

See my window….no I really don’t drink that much.

The other side of my little corner. More bins and boxes of fabric under my cutting table. The containers on the wooden desk are all different colored snaps. Another window full of wine bottles. I swear I don’t drink that much. I keep collecting them to paint though!

Here is my stash of yarn. I need to figure out a better way to keep it all up on the shelf. Maybe some wire bins turned on their sides? I will keep trolling pinterest for some ideas.

Here are my sewing books and the awesome hand spun wool I got from the farmer’s market.

 

Here are my useable fabrics and scraps and my thread. On the right I used a magazine holder to put my patterns….it is stuffed pretty full right now so I need to come up with a different solution for that.
 I also left space for another thread holder. I have the thread to fill it but need the money and the time for another trip to the store.

Here is my cutting table with my planning bulletin board over it…right now it is covered with patterns I need to put away. The table is just a standard 4 foot folding table that was raised up by using some PVC pipes (I forgot to take a picture of that but you can sort of see them in the top picture)

Here is my dowel rod ribbon holder. Only room for a little bit more ribbon so I will need to figure out more storage space for more ribbons soon. I will wait until that point comes to think about  it though. To the right of the shelf you can see my crazy huge roll of fleece. I also have miscellaneous supplies on this shelf; paper crafts, elastics, bias tape, lace, glues and interfacing.
 Now I have until Saturday to sew a birthday dress for Miss Faye! It is nice to have room for all the sewing!