I first met Rose Hughes when I spoke at the BAQS Meetup at Fall Market 2013. Rose is an artist whose medium is quilting, and I love her work. It’s thoughtful and playful, just a really great combination. I knew her work before that, though, because I loved her fast piece applique technique and became interested […]
Archives for November 2014
DIY Doyenne on Working for Free
The conversation about working for pay rather than for “publicity” is everywhere. I suggest that you read this post at DIY Doyenne and ponder: This is the kind of thing that happens to creatives regularly. There is a perception that if you make a living from your creative talents, you are doing it for fun, you […]
Simple doesn’t have to mean uniform
Now that this one has arrived back to its owner, I can share it! This is a pattern under construction by my customer Terri, and she wanted something simple to go with the overall simplicity of the quilt, and something that wasn’t full-on custom or too boring. At first I thought I would do a zig zag […]
A Tale of Two Quilts: Picking Quilting Designs
I wanted to share some recent finishes, and talk about choices when picking quilting for your top. This quilt, pieced by Jane at Jolly and Delilah Quilts from Tula Pink’s free pattern “Shoreline”. Jane is a state over from me, and so we ship back and forth using USPS priority. It works great! For this quilt, […]
“Do What You Love”
There has been a fair bit of talk about the phrase recently, in various disciplines. An article over at Slate by Miya Tokumitsu talks about one interpretation, and there’s a discussion over at Sew Mama Sew right now about the same thing. Personally, I used to buy into it, but now I have issues with the phrase and […]
Introduction to Wool Applique: Part 1
For the last few years, I’ve been a member of a quilty friends’ group and an art quilt group. I think I may have written about them before, because they are just an amazing group of women. I’m the youngest by about 20 years, which means I just soak up all the combined quilting knowledge […]
Designing for Pay: Continuing the Conversation
Abby Glassenberg of While She Naps has a great discussion about what designers actually get paid for fabric lines over at her blog. Some of you may remember the panel at QuiltCon ini 2013, which got a little testy when people asked them what they could reasonably expect for payment for a line. As a […]