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. [...]
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 [...]
Paper-piecing hack – slip sliding away!
I was paper-piecing in the studio last week, and ran into that pesky problem of getting one of the bottom pieces folded back on itself ONE TOO MANY TIMES. Harrumph. Nothing like holding the seam [...]
Tool crush – Moleskines… in COLOR!
Like a lot of folks in the arts (fine arts, writing arts, or otherwise) at one point in my career I discovered Moleskine notebooks. They are discrete little black numbers, made in several sizes, and [...]