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Studio Habits: SHOULD you make that project?

“Should you make that project?” is another post in the Studio Habits series. If your project list is anything like mine, it’s crowded with ideas and plans for new and unfinished projects. I often say I could go a couple of years without a new idea and still not run out of things to work on! When faced with such a smorgasbord of choices, how do you choose what to tackle? This is a list of the questions I ask myself whenever I start a new project, and usually my answers give me clarity about my choices: […]

2020-01-15T12:05:44-08:00
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Studio Habits: Keep a List

This is the first in an occasional series about building studio habits to ease your workflow. As we hit the middle of January, and I read across my social media feeds of everyone's epic plans to ramp up this and change that, I find myself retreating to my studio armchair with a cuppa to ponder what advice I would offer for giving your sewing practice an infusion of new year's intentions. Of course I have an ORANGE pillow! No, I'm not going to give you an insurmountable list of how to be perfect - really, who needs ANY [...]

2018-01-15T17:34:07-08:00
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Close Your Blade

"Close your blade!" Anyone who spends any amount of time sewing with me will hear this, and hear it constantly if you're one of those people who leaves your rotary cutter open when you put it down. If fact, last week, at my quilt guild's lovely charity sewing day*, I got told by a member that I was being micro-managing because I was being a hawk about open blades. Well, I am a hawk about open blades, ESPECIALLY in a group setting. This particular group had over a dozen people in it, and we were all wading through piles of scrap strips [...]

2017-03-27T18:48:04-07:00
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Ten Quilty Hopes for 2016

I'm not usually one for resolutions - I prefer to build habits when I notice I need them. Nor am I one for "my word of the year" choices - there are so many luscious words... how could I possible choose between them?! If I was forced to choose, it would probably be MAKE, but that's more of a lifelong thing, not a yearly thing! That said, I find myself predictably reflective as New Year approaches, and as I thought about what I would wish for YOU, dear friends, it turned into the following list: I hope you make yourself [...]

2020-01-15T10:53:42-08:00
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Lectures

LECTURES LECTURES I love to talk about art, and teach people how to make it. To hire me for a lecture, please get in touch or fill out the form below, and we’ll make it happen. I’m happy to work with you via ZOOM on an ongoing basis, and my team is happy to run the technology for you if needed.  My goal is to make it fun to make more quilts. I’m a fun, relaxed and encouraging speaker! I’m proud to be part of the longstanding tradition of hands-on [...]

2024-03-11T11:56:12-07:00
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