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 […]
Quilt Talk – a book for ANY word quilts
Those of you who’ve followed here for a while might be familiar with my book, Quilt Talk. It’s a book of letter patterns for a full paper-pieced alphabet, with a dozen projects included. Word quilts are making a resurgence, and I want to tell you how this book can help you make them, whether you […]
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 […]
Creative Women Summit – Feb 13-17
I’m super excited to share that I’m presenting at the Creative Women Summit, a week-long on-line program of sessions led by artists/entrepreneurs. If you are in a creative business (or want to be), the summit aims to give you a lot of great information to support your endeavors. Of course, I’ll be talking about […]
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 […]
Blog hop – DREAMER by Carrie Bloomston
New fabric from Carrie Bloomston is coming! DREAMER is her new line from Windham Fabrics and I think it’s the best yet. Take a peek at the Look Book here. It’s available to order now so ask your LQS to get on that 🙂 the fabric ships in March 2017. Carrie and I met at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bragging on some friends – SPOOL featured in Quilt Sampler!
Did you ever have a moment where you saw a friend achieve something great, and get so proud you thought you could pop? I’m having one of those moments for my friends Maddie, Les, and Flaun, who own SPOOL, a great quilt shop in Chattanooga! Their shop won a coveted spot in the Quilt Sampler […]