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. […]
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 few movie heroines of my youth. She wasn’t just “the girlfriend” and she didn’t fit the “helpless damsel in distress” […]
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 […]
Fall 2016 – New Patterns!
I released four new patterns for the recent Quilt Market, and they are all live in the shop now! Here they are: Hexactly! I’m so excited about this pattern! It’s all pieced (no applique) and NO Y-SEAMS!! I really enjoyed the puzzle of figuring this out. You can make it with 10” precuts, or fussy cut […]
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 […]
Hedgie Pincushion
I made this cute little guy a couple of years ago for Janome. Since then, mine has beefed up his collection of needles, and is looking very hedgehog-like! I decided to tidy up the pattern a bit, and put it in the shop here. Yes, it’s a freebie 🙂 The pattern doesn’t look like the […]
Paper-Pieced Block Patterns
There’s a new section in the shop, one just for paper-pieced block patterns! It came about after I posted a few paper-pieced crane blocks on Instagram from a project my mini-group and I are working on (we’re making a quilt that will be raffled for donations of socks for a local shelter), and you kind […]
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 closest to the Orlando shooting tragedy – the survivors, the family members of those killed, and the first responders to […]
Spring 2016 Pattern Releases
UPDATE: Shirley won the patterns! She was the THIRD person I contacted to win… keep an eye on your emails, folks! Now that Spring Quilt Market is done, I can show you all the new patterns I released for the first half of this year! They’re in stock and available in the store now! Before […]
National Quilting Day – Giveaway!
UPDATE 03/22/16: Jill B won the random drawing! Thank you to all who commented for the great inspiration 🙂 Today is National Quilting Day, and while I pretty much sew daily, I’m going to put the business sewing aside today, and work on something fun (can’t show you until after I mail it!) To celebrate this […]