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 […]
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, I added a bonus pocket modification to the outer back of the bag, to carry things like maps a bit […]
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 […]
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 […]