Tutorial: Turning Points
This is a photo tutorial for the Turning Points pattern (shop for the pattern here) Enjoy! This tutorial is done with the 6'' block. (And apologies for the state of my hands in the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hedgie Pincushion
I don't like to dispose of sharp metal in the trash - I'm always worried that it might hurt someone - so I've been putting my dead machine needles into an old pincushion for a [...]
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 [...]
Countdown! Advent Calendar Tutorial
This is a tutorial for Countdown, the advent calendar pattern I designed a couple of years back. It has roomy pleated pockets instead of doors or ornaments, and goes together really quickly. Like most of [...]
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 [...]