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 of pattern quality here on the blog. While I’m not a gun for hire for whatever bone someone wishes to […]
Spring Clean Your Studio 2017 – New Studio!
We are in the middle of this year’s edition of Spring Clean Your Studio, a fun blog hop devised by Cheryl Sleboda of Muppin.com! I moved at the end of last year, so I have a new studio to share! As I’ve written before, I’m a pretty tidy person in general, so what feels messy […]
Star Wars Patterns – ChickTech Donation 2017 1st Quarter
What can I say…. YOU ROCK! A couple of weeks ago I released my latest Star Wars pattern, General Organa, and made it a pay-what-you-can pattern. I designated the proceeds to Chick Tech, a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to retaining women in the technology workforce, and increasing the number of women and girls pursuing technology-based careers. […]
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. If fact, last week, at my quilt guild’s lovely charity sewing day*, I got told by a member that I […]
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 recently moved, and dedicated my new, larger living room to be my studio. When I told Heather about it, she […]
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 Grandma Bethel some years ago. The poor thing was loved to pieces, and Jessica asked me if I could rescue […]
Quilt Talk Bonus Pattern – Nevertheless
I made this quilt recently, and when I posted it on Instagram (follow me here) a few people asked for a pattern. This isn’t exactly a pattern per se, but close! You’ll need my book Quilt Talk for the letter patterns, but I’ve done the rest of the math for you: measurements and construction notes […]
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 our fellow people. My colleagues and I in the quilting industry have seen a notable uptick in the hostility of […]
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 who doesn’t start processing my payments until they are on the cusp of due, which means by the time the […]
Creative Women Summit – Feb 13-17
I’m super excited to share that I’m presenting at the Creative Women Summit, a week-long on-line program of sessions led by artists/entrepreneurs. If you are in a creative business (or want to be), the summit aims to give you a lot of great information to support your endeavors. Of course, I’ll be talking about […]