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 [...]
WASWI – Where Should You Buy a Quilt Book?
One of my readers, Rebecca R., kindly wrote me last week, concerned, regarding the price of my book on Amazon. As she put it, "Amazon is price gouging you." Yep, pretty much. As I say [...]
My Top Ten Tips for Sewing on the Road
I'm a member of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild, and they have a fabulous arrangement for members to sew together once a month at Fabric Depot, a huge store with a huge classroom. I love [...]
My Top Ten Sewing Studio Hacks
Do you have tips, techniques, tools or hacks that make life in your sewing space easier or more efficient for you? Here are some of my favorite sewing studio hacks... please share yours in the [...]
WASWI: Quilters Newsletter Magazine talks about Value
The conversation about what are quilts are worth has reached one of the big guns, Quilters Newsletter Magazine! The Aug/Sept 2014 issue includes a very sharp article titled "What's Your Quilt Worth?" It begins on [...]
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... [...]
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 [...]
A new Art Geek App!
Early in my college art education, an art history professor assigned us a museum trip. We were charged with visiting one of three specific paintings, and to spend 15 minutes with the work while writing [...]
Get needled
Back when I started sewing, rocks were soft, dinosaurs roamed the earth... and my sewing machine had "a needle" in it. Just a needle... any old needle. I know there must have been spares somewhere [...]