Seven Reasons Why I Love Quilt Kits
Interested in hearing this post as audio? You can do so here! I love a good quilt kit. In this too-busy life, a well-designed kit can give you fast success with a minimum amount of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well Loved Quilts
Last week, I visited my son and daughter-in-law in Michigan for their wedding. We had a lovely, too-short time, and I was sent home with three quilt projects to work on! The first quilt is one [...]
Hedgie Pincushion Pattern
I don’t like to dispose of sharp metal in the trash – I’m always worried that it might hurt someone. I usually put all my dead needles into an old pincushion – so I thought [...]
BIG Hearted – modifications for #QuiltsForPulse
Last week, I made an adapted version of my new pattern, Big Hearted, for #QuiltsForPulse, a project spearheaded by the Orlando Modern Quilt Guild to get quilts of rainbow hearts into the hands of those [...]
Rejected from QuiltCon
Rejected. I've been told I shouldn't use such a harsh word on myself, but it certainly is a clear statement of facts: I offered one of my quilts to QuiltCon, and it was not accepted [...]