Eads Quilt Along #5: Using A Design Wall. After being away last week at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, I was pleasantly reminded of a big benefit of using a design wall--it can be pretty! Coming ...
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Eads Quilt Along #3: Other Project Sizes and Ideas.
Eads Quilt Along #3: Other Project Sizes and Ideas. Project sizes seems pretty obvious, but hang with me for just a minute while I explain why I think this is a worthwhile talking point for the ...
Eads Quilt Along #2: Fabric Thoughts and Strategy.
Eads Quilt Along #2: Fabric Thoughts and Strategy. First, I just have to say that this is really fun. So much of the time, I'm working on something in advance, and I can't talk about it. But with ...
Eads Quilt Along #1: Getting Started.
Eads Quilt Along #1: Getting Started. You ready? Let's start with your sewing setup...or actually, let's start by taking a look at mine. Here's my current sewing set-up. I've got my sewing ...
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 ...
Eads Quilt Pattern and Quilt Along.
My Eads quilt pattern is one of my newbies. I showed it at Quilt Market in St Louis, and I'm excited to share it with you here now. It's a lot of fun, but I'm also biased, because I don't make things ...
Spring Quilt Market 2017 in St Louis.
Spring Quilt Market 2017 in St Louis was fun, fast and a total whirlwind as usual. Here are some highlights. First, the booth--featuring my new patterns Eads and Tee, plus my new fabric Blake and ...
Baby Morris quilt in the works.
Since I'm usually having to wait to share things in the works, it feels totally indulgent to be able to share some pics of an in-the-works quilt! This is a baby Morris quilt that I'm working on for a ...
Friedlander Crew.
This fleet of Friedlander Crew pincushions was basically an excuse to play with my newest fabric / finish something kind of quickly, which is always satisfying. I like making pincushions for ...
Wildabon Market Tote.
Sometimes (/most of the time) I get stuck on an idea that I can't wait to see through. This Wildabon Market Tote is one of them. Wildabon has been such a fun project in every way, and I've been eager ...
Wildabon Quilt with Leah Duncan.
Want to know one of the most fun things I did in 2016? Easy. It'd have to be my new Wildabon quilt--a collaboration with Leah Duncan. Everything about it was such a delight. To start, I'm a massive ...
Social Tote in Friedlander Fabric.
Remember the social tote? It's a fun, travel-friendly project that Anna Graham of Noodlehead collaborated with me to create. Anna is so talented and did such a wonderful job with this project that I'm ...
Nest Egg Tote in Friedlander Fabric.
This Nest Egg Tote in my Friedlander Fabric was a fun one to plan and put together. The Nest Egg continues to be one of my favorite travel bags for toting around my handwork. I'm still using the ...
Friedlander Fabric
Today, I'm finally able to tell you about my newest collection with Robert Kaufman, meet Friedlander fabric. Yes, that's right. I got super creative with the name, but maybe not exactly in the way ...
Aerial Grove in Liberty and Chambray.
I finished this guy. Finally. And it was fun. Here's a look at my Aerial Grove in Liberty and chambray that I started a little while ago (107 weeks according to Instagram) ... with status updates ...
Totem Quilt in Euclid.
Would you believe I made this in just 1 day? It's true. That's kind of what happens when it comes to fabric release time. There's always a super long list of things I'd like to make in ...
Euclid Hesperides Quilt.
I love appliqué, and lately I've really loved appliquéing with all types of fabric--from lawns to quilting cottons to linens. In fact, those were all big reasons for my Hesperides quilt design ...
Facing East Quilt in Euclid.
Here's a new Facing East Quilt in Euclid. Even though my new fabric collection Euclid is printed on Essex (and I've been making tons of garments and accessories with it), you can still use it ...
Everglade Quilt Shams
I seem to have a thing with pillow shams, which was certainly noticeable after finishing up these 3 Everglade Quilt shams that I eagerly made and used in my booth at Spring Quilt Market. (For anyone ...
Hesperides Quilt Pattern
Also new this spring is my Hesperides Quilt Pattern--a design that I've had a lot of fun with. While playing with my new collection Euclid, I kept thinking about opposites--both in terms of ...