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.

Thoughts on Pattern Quality

Early in May I received an email from a reader who is quite frustrated with her recent purchases of patterns with costly cutting errors in them. She wrote to ask me to tackle this issue [...]

The ORANGE and White Collection

Have you seen the red and white quilts of the Infinite Variety collection? They made a big splash at the American Folk Art Museum in 2011, and I was lucky enough to see some of [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

  • General Organa quilt features a pixelated version of General organa with the words "A woman's place is in the resistance"

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 [...]