Eads QAL #12: Finished Top. The top is done! What an adventure. But let's back up a bit. Since I've been documenting this entire process, I thought it'd be fun to do a video of the ...
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Eads QAL #11: Finished Blocks.
Eads QAL #11: Finished Blocks. As I mentioned last week, I decided to skip ahead and finish all blocks this week so that I can sew together the top for next week. Woohoo! As I mapped out ...
Eads Quilt Along #10: Gleaned Eads and Anticipatory Sewing.
Eads Quilt Along #10: Gleaned Eads and Anticipatory Sewing. Yay, Gleaned is out in the world, which means I can start publicly using it in my projects. Whether it's a collection that you're ...
Eads Quilt Along #9: Goals and Deadlines.
Eads Quilt Along #9: Goals and Deadlines. To be honest, goals and deadlines--whether self-inflicted or external--are the only reason that I get anything done. I was thinking about this last night ...
Eads Quilt Along #8: Layout Play and Borders.
Eads Quilt Along #8: Layout Play and Borders. Even when you're working with just 1 block, there is so much you can do when it comes to layout. Last week, we mixed things up by just moving the ...
Eads Quilt Along #7: It’s time for a shuffle.
Eads Quilt Along #7: It's time for a shuffle. While it's been fun looking at this guy, I've been feeling the urge for a shuffle. Mixing things up can be a great thing, and after 6 weeks, I figured ...
Eads Quilt Along #6: Crowdsourced.
Eads Quilt Along #6: Crowdsourced. You guys are making some awesome stuff, which is why I think it's a fitting time to take a look at some of it now that we're at the halfway mark. @erushman has ...
Eads Quilt Along #5: Using A Design Wall.
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 ...
Eads Quilt Along #4: Color Moods.
Eads Quilt Along #4: Color Moods. Do you get in color moods? I feel like I do all the time, and this week was a reminder of that for me. While sewing away, I thought about how different any project ...
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 ...
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 ...
Making Fauna and a giveaway.
I have another project in the latest issue of Making Magazine, by Madder. The theme for this issue is Fauna, which is pretty fun. My project explores a fairly simple idea--embroidered fish. But ...
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 ...
Pickle Hawaiian.
I definitely have no problem starting new projects. The problem is always in finishing them. Anyone else with me on that? Luckily for anything work-related, there are deadlines, which means things do ...
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 ...