Totally not quilt-related, but I think it’s a good idea to pass this around since I know a bunch of people have water-related plans this summer. Here is a great post on what drowning actually looks like, and why most people don’t recognize it, even as they’re watching the person in distress just a few […]
Enjoying the … heck… out of the process.
No, really! I am making this mini quilt version of a larger quilt I have in mind (it’s a queen-sized quilt when it’s all done, and I will be writing a pattern for it, but now I don’t know what size!), and am having a ridiculously good time doing it. I’m quilting it on my […]
Technique Does Matter
Some of you may follow my “technique of the week” and may find that it’s awfully simple. How to get a perfect 1/4″ seam? Really? But the building blocks of great work, even improv and modern quilting, are knowledge of how to make with good technique. I turned professional because, gosh darn it, I have high […]
Comments part two–Support groups for The Single Girl (Quilt)
Many of you also said you wanted to work on Denyse Schmidt’s “Single Girl” quilt. This one has lots of smaller templates and involves lots of small seams and accurate piecing. I have the pattern but have yet to attempt it, since I have had so many of my own projects to work on lately. […]
He knows me so well
My little boy is in kindergarten this year, and they made a little book for Mother’s Day that had fill-on-the-blanks about us. Here is my absolute favorite: And this one: He’s the one in the birthday hat to the left–his birthday is coming up, so he’s plotting what cake he’d like this year. Two of […]
Favorite search term *ever*
I get to see some of the search terms that people use to find their way to my site, and yesterday I got one that literally was “how the hell do I finish this quilt”. I laughed, because I still feel this way sometimes. While I love improv and quilting without a plan, sometimes at […]
And Also!
So what I also meant to say in that last post about what I learned in the comments, is that I often hear that, “Modern quilters just want something fast and quick. They don’t want to make difficult things or try something hard”. And looking at all your bucket lists, many of the things on […]
What I learned from the comments, part 1
I had 240 comments from the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway, and had a great time reading every one of them. People had some wonderful things on their bucket lists, and I was really interested to see the trends. This post is Part 1 of a series of things that I am pulling together to maybe […]
That horrible moment…
… when you realize that you really *dont* have enough in your stash. Not even enough to fudge. What’s yours?
Simple, pretty, and relatively easy
I bought a layer cake of “Honey Honey” by Kate Spain for Moda a couple months back, because I wanted to design a pattern for a layer cake, since that seems like something people tend to do. I wanted a big design to show off the different fabrics in chunks, and settled on what I […]
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