Too Much Sewing Machine
Last week I was chatting with my friend Sarah, and she shared with me that she was avoiding sewing because she has "too much sewing machine." She's the owner of a high-end hotrod - you [...]
Spring Clean Your Studio – 2019
We're back again with the 2019 edition of the Spring Clean Your Studio Blog Hop! My friend Cheryl Sleboda of muppin.com and sewmuchcosplay.com puts this together every year so that our readers get a peek [...]
Spring Clean Your Studio Blog Hop 2018 – a vintage cabinet joins my studio!
Yes, it's time to clean up my studio again! My friend and creative whirlwind Cheryl Sleboda is again hosting the Spring Clean Your Studio Blog Hop (I love this blog hop project!) and today is [...]
Studio Habits: Keep a List
This is the first in an occasional series about building studio habits to ease your workflow. As we hit the middle of January, and I read across my social media feeds of everyone's epic plans [...]
Quilting Loves You, Too
I was recently asked why I think quilting is great. As I've chain-pieced myself silly through the last couple of weeks, I've been thinking about my friends and colleagues sweating it out with me, and [...]
How to Spray Baste a Quilt that’s Larger than your Table – Back to School Blog Hop Day 1
https://youtu.be/XPaIzuoY6Bg Welcome to Day 1 of the Back to School Blog Hop! I'm kicking it off with a video tutorial on how to spray baste a quilt that's bigger than your table. The video is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]