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.
  • 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]