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.
  • 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 [...]

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 [...]