Quilt Talk® Bonus Pattern – Do No Harm!
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 [...]
Quilt Talk® Goes Tiny
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 [...]
Sew Together Bag – Elastic Modifications
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 [...]
New Pattern + Tutorial – Chunky Wee Zippy Pouches
I released five new patterns for Spring Quilt Market, and I'm going to take the next few days to introduce them here: first up is Chunky Wee Zippy Pouches. This pattern includes instructions for the [...]
New Pattern! It’s blue! It’s bigger on the inside! It’s a Police box!
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... [...]
Hedgie Pincushion
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Quality of Patterns – A Discussion
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 [...]
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 [...]