And that's exactly what I did. This week (and these last few weeks) have been a little on the heavy side, so some reconnecting with my sewing machine was very much in order. I ...
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park.
Meet Park. Another newbie to my Slow Sewing Studio group. The design is inspired by a cast-iron gate on Park Avenue in my ...
alturas.
Meet alturas. Named after a nearby town where my great-aunt (a.k.a. Granny) lived, this project is another newbie to the slow sewing studio. I thought of Granny often while making ...
circles.
Meet circles. Part of my slow sewing studio. Sometimes simple shapes and fun fabric is all you need. That's pretty much the idea behind this one, plus the fact that it's a ...
intro to tangelo.
Tangelo is one of my recent newbies. She's a paper-pieced triangle project with plenty of sizes to choose from. I've never been one for a lot of precise pre-cutting, which is one reason why this is ...
aerial workshop this week.
And the samples are finally done. deep breath. There are two other colorways to this gang. Meet Mr. Cool. And Mr. ...
a quilt a day: sessoms + architextures.
I've always wanted to do a background color gradation with my Sessoms design. Using my architextures and coordinating Kona charm packs made it super simple. If you've already got the pattern, ...
a quilt a day: from you.
I'm loving what you guys are making. It's been such a thrill to see architextures projects popping up. Kirsten at Gemini Stitches set off architextures and a beautiful quilt design with a ...
a quilt a day: backbone goes grayscale.
Who knew I'd get so obsessed with black fabric? Not me. At all. But I'm a changed woman. And here's the proof. I took my backbone into grayscale territory with my architextures. ...
a quilt a day: QuiltCon edition.
Rather than share another one of my quilts, I'm gonna post a smattering of some that I was able to spend some time with yesterday at the show. And the detail Alison Glass and Lucky ...
saturday sewing binge.
I LOVE getting totally lost in a project, and that is exactly what happened over the weekend. It all started with these guys that I'd picked up the day before at a quilt ...
modern baby.
Oh boy. This is a fun one, and the secret is officially out. I've got a little something coming out in a book super soon! Yay. The book is called Modern Baby, and it's chock-full of fun ideas for the ...
Georgia Quilt Show.
I got some awesome news this week. My Palmetto (not the version pictured above, but this one) won 2 awards at the Georgia Quilt Show--second place and judge's choice! I'm super thrilled and ...
hello quilts.
They're baaack... ...all six of them have been traveling around and apparently having a great time this summer on tour. I'm totally honored to have had so many wonderful shops hosting them all over ...
freshly photographed.
I finally got around to some photographing this week. Here are some shots of a little aerial sample from market. Enjoy! ...
single girl sunday.
Yesterday I worked on my single girl. She's really starting to come along. I've now got 18 (out of 48) ring-lets completed--not too shabby. The rings are coming together easily, and I'm having a lot ...
aerial eye candy.
For whatever reason I'm having a difficult time focusing today, so I thought I'd share some (slightly random) eye candy from one of my newest patterns, aerial. Enjoy! ... First is an early sketch. I ...
sessoms blast from the past.
With the giveaway I have going on, I thought I'd take a quick trip back to the (almost) very beginning of my Sessoms throw. Other than some sketches and a few lone blocks, it all started with this ...
plugging back in.
It feels great to be back home, finally. My trip to Quilt Market was a wonderful adventure and only being able to work from an ipad was a great excuse to unplug a little bit, which I love. I continued ...
miniMINI sunrise update.
Remember this weekend project from a little while ago? Here's an update. She's all quilted, bound, and photographed. The orderly 1/4" quilting, via my walking foot, gives ...