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.

All Inclusive

I recently attended a guild meeting, where the speaker began her talk by making a statement along the lines of "those ugly charity quilts some people make are not art." Yeesh. Talk about divide the [...]

Making a Quick Buck

Well! It seems that my last post about quilting patterns touched a couple of nerves... it seems that any of us who have designed quilt patterns got a bit prickly about the comment that we [...]

The Quality of Patterns – A Discussion

A friend forwarded a post from Marianne of The Quilting Edge this weekend, in which she invites discussion on the topic of poorly written patterns. Give it a look, and check out the lively discourse [...]

A new Art Geek App!

Early in my college art education, an art history professor assigned us a museum trip. We were charged with visiting one of three specific paintings, and to spend 15 minutes with the work while writing [...]

These Hands Make Things

If you follow any of the social media surrounding the current wave of feminism, you've probably noticed that we are beginning to see photographs of real people with little electronic alteration - a trend I [...]