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.

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 [...]

  • Cover image of the Quilt Talk book features three buckets with the patchwork words of "Stuff," "Oh Scrap" and "Full of Knit" next to a sewing machine.

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 [...]