It has happened AGAIN. Yep, stealing patterns, stealing content, copying pages from books. This time, it's in a Facebook group known as the Worldwide Quilting Group. The administrator, Sandy Stubbs, has been scraping tutorial and [...]
Early in May I received an email from a reader who is quite frustrated with her recent purchases of patterns with costly cutting errors in them. She wrote to ask me to tackle this issue [...]
Come take a peek inside my studio! A couple of years back, Heather Powers of HKPowerStudio interviewed me about my studio space. Back then, it was a slender room in a friend's bigger studio. I [...]
Friends, sewists, quiltmakers, lend me your ears! The last few weeks of political upheaval in the United States has definitely shortened a lot of fuses, and sadly, it's bleeding out in how we're treating [...]
Woohoo! I had the privilege and pleasure of being interviewed by Sandi Hazlewood, The Crafty Planner, for her podcast. It was SO COOL to talk about all the things that matter to us both. And [...]
The quilt world got another dose of controversy recently, this one sparked by a blog post from The Modern Quilt Guild at the end of July (note that the original post underwent changes based on [...]
One of the cool things about moving to Portland is that there's a huge entrepreneurial community here. Within days of unloading the moving truck in 2013, I found myself at a holiday party with local followers [...]
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 [...]
This information was shared with me late last year: a reader bought a pattern from a booth vendor at the Pacific International Quilt Festival in October 2015, and when she opened it up later, it [...]
In the last couple months, we've seen gender in quilting discussed in several places, and after following the conversations I feel a need to add my voice. I'll attempt to pull some threads together for [...]
