Today I’m sharing some construction tips for my new pattern, Holiday Snow Globes, as part of the Windham Fabrics Christmas in July Blog Hop. See the info at the end for a chance to win some fabric from me and the other stops in the hop! I’m making a block from my pattern Holiday Snow […]
Thoughts on Pattern Quality
Early in May I received an email from a reader who is quite frustrated with her recent purchases of patterns with costly cutting errors in them. She wrote to ask me to tackle this issue of pattern quality here on the blog. While I’m not a gun for hire for whatever bone someone wishes to […]
Spring 2017 – New Patterns!
I released four new patterns for Spring Quilt Market and they’re in the shop now! As always, HUGE THANKS to my test crew: Monica, Ursula, Barbara, Flaun, Jean, Kimberly, Trish, Megan, and Janet and the SLO Creative Test Crew. And more HUGE THANKS to Kazumi Peterson of K.Peterson Quilting for making my quilts look so pretty! First up, one […]
Star Wars Patterns – ChickTech Donation 2017 1st Quarter
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 […]