“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 […]
Inside My Studio
Come take a peek inside my studio! A couple of years back, Heather Powers of HKPowerStudio interviewed me about my studio space. Back then, it was a slender room in a friend’s bigger studio. I recently moved, and dedicated my new, larger living room to be my studio. When I told Heather about it, she […]
The General Organa Quilt
I have another Star Wars quilt for you! This one is the General Organa quilt, and is my homage to the late Carrie Fisher. The original Star Wars movie’s Princess Leia Organa was one of the few movie heroines of my youth. She wasn’t just “the girlfriend” and she didn’t fit the “helpless damsel in distress” […]
Quilt Talk – a book for ANY word quilts
Those of you who’ve followed here for a while might be familiar with my book, Quilt Talk. It’s a book of letter patterns for a full paper-pieced alphabet, with a dozen projects included. Word quilts are making a resurgence, and I want to tell you how this book can help you make them, whether you […]
Jessica’s Squilt
My son’s squilt (special quilt) wasn’t the only quilt that came home with me last summer, looking for a little help. It was joined by a squilt made for his wife, Jessica, by her Great Grandma Bethel some years ago. The poor thing was loved to pieces, and Jessica asked me if I could rescue […]
Quilt Talk Bonus Pattern – Nevertheless
I made this quilt recently, and when I posted it on Instagram (follow me here) a few people asked for a pattern. This isn’t exactly a pattern per se, but close! You’ll need my book Quilt Talk for the letter patterns, but I’ve done the rest of the math for you: measurements and construction notes […]
Try a Little Tenderness
Friends, sewists, quiltmakers, lend me your ears! The last few weeks of political upheaval in the United States has definitely shortened a lot of fuses, and sadly, it’s bleeding out in how we’re treating our fellow people. My colleagues and I in the quilting industry have seen a notable uptick in the hostility of […]
WASWI: Asking for better than you get
Here’s part of an email I just sent to a company that buys patterns from me. Yet again, my payment was not made in a timely fashion. I sadly deal with more than one company who doesn’t start processing my payments until they are on the cusp of due, which means by the time the […]
Creative Women Summit – Feb 13-17
I’m super excited to share that I’m presenting at the Creative Women Summit, a week-long on-line program of sessions led by artists/entrepreneurs. If you are in a creative business (or want to be), the summit aims to give you a lot of great information to support your endeavors. Of course, I’ll be talking about […]
The Personal and the Political
Yes, I’ve been quiet of late. It’s been one helluva season… I moved house and studio in early December, my delightfully dodgy heart landed me in the hospital (again) during the holidays, I’m sore and shaken from a recent car accident, and we’ve had this huge, traumatically divisive election season. I got quiet because I […]