The more I learn about my craft, the more it becomes obvious to me that knowing quilt history is crucial. In addition to the story the maker has when they put it together the first time, I also believe every quilt has a life and story of their own once they are “released into the wild”. […]
My stop on the Blog Tour for Fast Piece Applique
Welcome, friends, to my stop on the Fast Piece Applique blog tour! If you love fun applique projects with curves and layering, yet don’t want to have to fiddle endlessly but still get great results, do I have a book for you: Rose Hughes has a new book out called Fast Piece Applique. You can see the piece […]
recent finishes for Cristy
This little cutie is a mini that Cristy Fincher of Purple Daisies made. The wreaths have this really great movement to them, and to quilt them, I knew I wanted to keep with that feeling of turning and twisting. I broke down the wreaths into triangles, and put in a simple echoed triangle in those […]
Hello 2015!
December was a big month. I went to my first BERNINA Ambassadors Retreat (and it was awesome! I need to write about this.)! I had a hard but good visit with my elderly grandmother in California (I am not writing about this). I quilted a ton! Customer quilts: quilts for show and tell: and quilts […]
Are you headed to QuiltCon 2015?
I’ve got my room, I’m looking for flights, and I’m happy to announce that two of my quilts will be at QuiltCon! This will be a sneak peek from my forthcoming book, too! And the title is… well, let’s just say I am really satisfied. I can’t show you the quilts, but I think I *can* […]
A collaboration with Rose Hughes
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 […]
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 […]
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