Five years!
Today is a special "birthday" of sorts - it's the 5th anniversary of my heart attack. A good friend of mine recently celebrated 21 years of sobriety, and she says now that her sobriety birthday [...]
Tool crush – Moleskines… in COLOR!
Like a lot of folks in the arts (fine arts, writing arts, or otherwise) at one point in my career I discovered Moleskine notebooks. They are discrete little black numbers, made in several sizes, and [...]
What’s it worth? Part 2 – A Bigger Picture
If you enjoy this post, I write more posts like this on my Substack, How to Own a Revolutionary Craft Biz. Check it out! Last November I dashed off a blog post about calculating the [...]
Filling the well – more process
Last week I experimented with a different way of working... instead of just working one thing to the end of a logical step, I tried giving several important things a spot of focus in the [...]
Quarter inch, SCHMuarter inch!
Ah, the quarter inch seam allowance. The holy grail of quilting. Love or hate it, embrace it or ignore it - it can be friend or foe. For those of you who do most projects [...]
To finish, or not to finish?
So how goes your UFO pile? It seems that every quilting and crafting blog I've read this month is exhorting us to make this the month, if not year, of finishing the unfinished projects. I [...]
On giving up “perfect”
'Tis the season! Yes, the season of tinsel and holiday muzak, of cookie bakes and frenzied shopping excursions. And the quilt store where I work is not immune from the insanity... there have been a [...]
Process – tools!
If you recall, one of the things I pointed out in my original post about process was my desire for efficiency. I like to feel that I waste as little time/fabric/money/regret as possible so as [...]
What’s it worth?
If you enjoy this post, I write more posts like this on my Substack, How to Own a Revolutionary Craft Biz. Check it out! This morning I caught a post on a quilting Facebook [...]
Process – storage ideas, part 2
In the last post, I got halfway through describing some of the storage goodies in my studio... here's some more stuff that lives on the big bookshelf: Machine needles and spare blades live in their [...]