It’s been a terribly frustrating week, so I’ll keep this short and sweet: I found out last week that my website was NOT forwarding messages to me from the contact page (and hadn’t since the beginning of June). Which means it looks like I was ignoring people who wrote to me, to the point […]
The Space Squilt
No, that’s not a misspelling. SQUILT is a valid word in my family – it means Special Quilt, and is reserved for the most honored quilts: the “loveys,” the “woobies,” the ones that achieve Velveteen Rabbit-like wearing out because they’ve been blankie-dragged through good times and bad. They’re not competition-worthy specimens, but they are fiercely fought […]
Why You SHOULD Make Derivative Work: It Will Teach You Something
The quilt world got another dose of controversy recently, this one sparked by a blog post from The Modern Quilt Guild at the end of July (note that the original post underwent changes based on some uproar from the community, and was then taken down and archived, with this one in its place – and […]
WASWI – One of My Patterns Has Been Plagiarized
I’m pretty steamed. I’ve discovered that someone who bought my Chunky Wee Zippy Pouches pattern has ripped it off, obviously believing the “just change 5 things or X percent and you’re safe” nonsense. Whatever the nuts and bolts of copyright law might state about what is in the public domain and what can’t be protected on […]
Count Me In
The murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Lorne Ahrens, and Michael Smith this week have my made heart incredibly heavy. I’m outraged that our society continues to execute black men, and I’m horrified that a black man needed to slaughter police officers to make visible the terrible disparities in our justice system. I have watched (and read) as […]
Born For This
** UPDATE: Peggy won the book! One of the cool things about moving to Portland is that there’s a huge entrepreneurial community here. Within days of unloading the moving truck in 2013, I found myself at a holiday party with local followers of Chris Guillebeau, the author of the $100 Startup and The Art of Non-Conformity, […]
Spring Clean Your Studio 2016 – Come On In!
Welcome to my studio! When Cheryl Sleboda asked me to join the Spring Cleaning hop again, her timing was perfect. I’m in the middle of #SewingAtTheSpeedOfSam for Spring Quilt Market, and she caught me on a very messy day. So I took a few pix for my before shots! I was in the middle of […]
Spring Clean Your Studio Blog Hop – 2016 Edition!
Cheryl Sleboda at Muppin.com has kicked off another round of Spring Clean Your Studio! It kicks off today, and the schedule is below (with yours truly showing you under the hood around here tomorrow!) Cheryl is finishing the tour of with a link up on the last day over at her blog – which means […]
The High Cost of Discount Pricing
Everybody loves a bargain. Scoring something on sale is a modern day hunter/gatherer coup of the first order, a proof positive that you are conducting your life with thrifty adult aplomb. But the push for sale prices is eroding the quilting (and other) industries. Many chain stores have resorted to constant discounting as a way […]
Important Quilts: Meeting Chawne Kimber
Last week I went to QuiltCon in SoCal. I’ve never made the schlep to Austin for the previous events, and being as Pasadena was old stomping grounds for me (I worked there for a while in a previous version of my life) it was a no-brainer to make it to this one. There were several […]