Making a Quick Buck
Well! It seems that my last post about quilting patterns touched a couple of nerves... it seems that any of us who have designed quilt patterns got a bit prickly about the comment that we [...]
Dalek Quilt Tutorial – Who’s the Bad Guy?
So who's your favorite Doctor? I have to admit that I have a soft spot for Tom Baker's incarnation… he was the jelly-baby eating Doctor Who of my childhood in England. He was a big [...]
We Are $ew Worth It: Keeping track while you work
The first step in being able to assess what you might charge to make a quilt is keeping good track of what went into it, in both time and materials. Anyone who has had the [...]
Paper-piecing hack – slip sliding away!
I was paper-piecing in the studio last week, and ran into that pesky problem of getting one of the bottom pieces folded back on itself ONE TOO MANY TIMES. Harrumph. Nothing like holding the seam [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Process – storage ideas – part 1
And so, back to the studio and the conversation of process. In this post, I'm going to show you some of my storage set-ups, and tell you a little about why I use what I [...]
Process – how’s your space?
I've been musing a lot about PROCESS of late. How I work, how I navigate my space, how I navigate my time. While I was in graduate school (MFA in Fiber) I was "encouraged" to [...]
Passion
I drive a Miata. I bought my first in 1996, and my second (and current) in 2001. I’m approaching 300K lifetime Miata miles, and I still look out the window, espy my car and think [...]