It's Post #3 in the Pine + Bow Quilt Along, and I'm excited to share more about my Pine project, give you some tips and tricks and show you my sewing space! Here's a look. Making your sewing ...
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Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #2: Meet Bow + Fabric Pull
Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #2: Meet Bow + Fabric Pull We're in week #2 of the Quilt Along! This week, let's take a look at Bow. The Bow quilt Bow is my homage to a rainbow, and it's such a ...
Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #1: Meet Pine + Fabric Pull
Pine + Bow Quilt Along Post #1: Meet Pine + Fabric Pull Let's look at Pine! I'm thrilled to kick off this Quilt Along with this first post about Pine. Since we're featuring two patterns (Pine ...
Pine + Bow Quilt Along
Are you ready for a Pine + Bow quilt along? While at QuiltCon, I got excited to do another quilt along, and many of you seemed interested too. We did some polling on instagram to see what folks ...
QuiltCon Atlanta 2023
It's been almost a month since QuiltCon Atlanta 2023--what a rush! For the first time I had a booth and it was a ton of fun. Here are some highlights from the show. Booth Building There's ...
Slow Stitching retreat in Maine
Last month I taught at the A Gathering of Stitches Slow Stitching retreat in Maine. In my workshops we explored machine piecing techniques with my Long Leaf, Frond and Slash patterns. It's always such ...
Basting my Blue Slash Quilt
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 ...
Takeaways from Me Made May 2022
Me Made May Another May is over, and I have plenty of takeaways from Me Made May 2022. Like previous years, it's been a good, creative push. And no surprise, I've added more garment patterns to my ...
Long Leaf Baby Quilt
A couple of months back, I made this Long Leaf Baby Quilt. The Colors and Prints I auditioned a lot of different things when pulling fabrics for this project. Sometimes I have a palette in ...
Long Leaf Technique Tips
I had my first in-person event last week since the start of COVID. While it presented new considerations (like teaching masked), it was really fun sewing with folks again, and I was eager to see one ...
Clay Mini quilt.
Despite this Clay mini quilt being my most recent Clay finish, it was actually the quilt where it all began. It all started with a mini charm pack from a Quilt Market years ago. The pack included ...
Hunt QAL #12 Check In.
Hunt QAL #12 Check In. Month #12, we did it! It's been a year of Hunt, and I appreciate you following along and joining in. At the start, I really just thought I'd make a quilt top by this point, ...
Meet Spools, my new quilt pattern.
Meet Spools, my new quilt pattern and tribute to an iconic sewing essential. Spools is very literally a celebration of sewing, with all kinds of color, fabric and print possibilities. ...
Safety, Sanity and Sewing.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Safety, sanity and sewing have been front of mind lately. I hope that you and your family are staying safe and taking care wherever you may be. I am grateful for ...
Hearts behind the scenes.
Here's a little Hearts behind-the-scenes action. I was looking back through some photos, and found these shots from when I was making my new Hearts quilt. At this stage, I'd gotten all of my hearts ...
Hunt QAL Month #1 Check In.
Hunt QAL Month #1 Check In. I have two questions for you. (1) How has it already been 1 month, and (2) how are things going with you and your project? For me, this month developed in ways I ...
Hunt Quilt Along: Project Overview.
Hunt Quilt Along: Project Overview. Yay, I'm so glad that you're joining in! And I'm really excited to hear that many of you are happy about the year-long format. It'll be good! This week I'm doing ...
cf Mini QAL #5: Gradation.
cf Mini QAL #5: Gradation. How was last week? Here's what I made. This week, my focus was on Davie. With last week's challenge being about all colors, I tried not to over think my fabric ...
cf Mini QAL #3: Using An Accent.
cf Mini QAL #3: Using An Accent. How did last week go for you? Did you like the two-tone challenge? I really did. In fact, I kind of like the idea of my project from the week being a jumping off ...
Meet Babson.
Last up of the newbies is Babson, a very graphic and fun-to-sew project. This quilt is kind of like Eads in that it's super mix and matchable, works with a bunch of different fabrics, can be ...