Before leaving to teach in Maine recently, I basted my Blue Slash quilt. I finished the top much earlier this year, and so the basting was overdue! A Gathering of Stitches hosts these beautiful ...
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Big Stitch Coasters in Collection CF
With the newest fabrics in Collection CF arriving in stores, I thought I'd share with you these new Big Stitch Coasters that I made in Collection CF. The coasters are made using this free ...
Quilting with Sashiko Thread and trying out other new things.
At QuiltCon, I picked up a few new things to try. Whether it was the options as they were presented or my mood, there was clearly a theme to what I bought. I grabbed up many different Sashiko threads ...
Tee: The Knit Quilt Primer and why I love making quilts with knits.
With my first knit collection, Blake, coming out, there was never a plan to make a knit quilt, because why would you? It sounds like a terrible idea, right? Knit stretches, it's a garment fabric, etc ...
Wholecloth Quilting Project on Creative Bug.
My latest class, Wholecloth Quilting is now live on Creative Bug. In this class, we play around with a little bit of everything--walking foot quilting, free motion quilting, hand quilting and hand ...
Creative Bug BOM Trudy.
It's time to meet the newest and final member of my 2016 contribution to the Creative Bug BOM, Trudy. She's fairly simple, but also adventurous and adaptable based on your fabric choices and how ...
recently in visuals.
Work/Life is definitely starting to ramp up with Fall releases and deadlines right around the corner. Here's a bit of what I've been up to. Playing with lots of color... And then also not a lot of ...
hi, april.
Quilt Market is looming, as it tends to do. That's fine. I mean there are still (quite a few) logistical things that need to be worked out, and my new stuff is not quite ready to see the light of day. ...
a quilt a day: parade of houses.
I had a lot of fun designing my Local quilt, and I'm really into the idea of not only the project as a whole, but also breaking it up into fun, little flavorful goodies. I've got a few that I haven't ...
happy valentines day!
Aren't I just so festive? I started the morning off with some free-spirited, free-motion. Sometimes you just need to do some doodling, and that's exactly what's been going on here. The sample ...
feeling wild about texture and wildly strong.
Ah, texture. Such a wonderful thing. And one of my favorite things about quilting. It's been nice to be able to enjoy some of my quilts since getting them back recently. I ...
lots of quilting.
It's Thursday already? Like my thread, these last couple weeks have disappeared. And there's probably some correlation. The spool on the left was brand spanking new one week ago, which means that I've ...
catching up on some quilting.
I'm in the mood to catch up on some quilting. First on the agenda is to finish up this sessoms sample. There's not much of a plan other than feathery-ish goodness in the border and heavier ...