This is a tutorial for adapting a printed cross-stitch pattern into a quilt top. This year, I made a couple of cute Star Wars themed quilts using cross-stitch patterns from Jacqueline of Wee Little Stitches. If [...]
Recently, Karri G wrote with this question: "What do you say when someone wants you to make them a copy of a pattern without sounding holy than thou?" First of all, can I just say [...]
I love quotes. I've subscribed to a few "quote of the day" emails over the years, and I'm a sucker for a chunky little book of them. I think this one might be the next [...]
How small can you go? As it happens... pretty dang small! I belong to the Portland Modern Quilt Guild, and we get extra door prize tickets if we have a hand-made name badge. So my [...]
I have a bit of an obsession for making Sew Together bags. I've been working through a list of friends to gift them to, but had not yet settled on the one that would become [...]
Ever since I made the Who's the Bad Guy? pattern people have been asking "Where's the (Police Box)?" Well, ask no more! This is one of the new patterns I introduced for Quilt Market last week! (psst... [...]
I don't like to dispose of sharp metal in the trash - I'm always worried that it might hurt someone - so I've been putting my dead machine needles into an old pincushion for a [...]
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 [...]
A friend forwarded a post from Marianne of The Quilting Edge this weekend, in which she invites discussion on the topic of poorly written patterns. Give it a look, and check out the lively discourse [...]
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 [...]
