WRITINGS, MUSINGS, & PHOTO TUTORIALS

WRITINGS, MUSINGS, AND PHOTO TUTORIALS

Welcome to the blog! This is where you’ll find written tutorials, encouragement, posts from some of the coolest blog hops, and occasional musings. I also write periodically for my industry and some of those posts can get a bit chewy if you’re just here for the pretty pictures, so feel free to skip right over those!
The blog includes written tutorials, and you can go here for a list of them. If you want to check out our video tutorials, go here.
  • Turning Points features paper piecing and prairie points to make a three dimensional flying geese in a circular formation.

Tutorial: Turning Points

This is a photo tutorial for the Turning Points pattern (shop for the pattern here) Enjoy!   This tutorial is done with the 6'' block. (And apologies for the state of my hands in the [...]

Quilt Talk® Goes Tiny

How small can you go? As it happens... pretty dang small! I belong to the Portland Modern Quilt Guild, and we get extra door prize tickets if we have a hand-made name badge. So my [...]

Spring Clean Your Studio – my turn!

Don't hate me. Truly. And no... this is not a Pantene commercial! This post is supposed to be about showing you my messy studio, and then showing you the cleaned up version, but here's the thing: [...]

The Joy of a Slow Project

I'm capable of working quite quickly, fast enough that my friends invented a hashtag for it, #sewingatthespeedofsam. Yes, I get through a lot of projects - remember, I design and sew for a living! - [...]