Close Your Blade
"Close your blade!" Anyone who spends any amount of time sewing with me will hear this, and hear it constantly if you're one of those people who leaves your rotary cutter open when you put it down. [...]
Important Quilts: Meeting Chawne Kimber
Last week I went to QuiltCon in SoCal. I've never made the schlep to Austin for the previous events, and being as Pasadena was old stomping grounds for me (I worked there for a while [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Slicing, dicing… and oiling!
No, it's not a cooking/recipe post! Heavens no... it's a post about rotary cutters! Did you know that oiling them can help them roll more smoothly? Yep. Just like oiling your sewing machine. And you [...]
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 [...]