Chunky Wee Bag – Bonus pocket modification
A while back, I decided to adapt a large version of my Chunky Wee Bag pattern to be my travel handbag and a camera bag all in one. In the course of making the bag, [...]
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 [...]
Hedgie Pincushion Pattern
I don’t like to dispose of sharp metal in the trash – I’m always worried that it might hurt someone. I usually put all my dead needles into an old pincushion – so I thought [...]
Born For This
One of the cool things about moving to Portland is that there's a huge entrepreneurial community here. Within days of unloading the moving truck in 2013, I found myself at a holiday party with local followers [...]
Spring Clean Your Studio 2016 – Come On In!
Welcome to my studio! When Cheryl Sleboda asked me to join the Spring Cleaning hop again, her timing was perfect. I'm in the middle of #SewingAtTheSpeedOfSam for Spring Quilt Market, and she caught me on [...]
Wanderlust Quilts
I'm so happy to be a stop on the blog hop for my friend Mandy Liens' luscious new book, Wanderlust Quilts. Mandy and I met a couple of years ago at Quilt Market, and I [...]
FREE Tutorial: How to Adapt a Cross-Stitch Pattern for Quilting
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Little Spark
It happens. The well dries up. Your creative mojo chases the sunset out of town and you feel like you've lost a dear friend. How to get it back becomes your next big priority. And [...]