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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What’s it worth? Part 2 – A Bigger Picture
If you enjoy this post, I write more posts like this on my Substack, How to Own a Revolutionary Craft Biz. Check it out! Last November I dashed off a blog post about calculating the [...]
Filling the well – more process
Last week I experimented with a different way of working... instead of just working one thing to the end of a logical step, I tried giving several important things a spot of focus in the [...]
Quarter inch, SCHMuarter inch!
Ah, the quarter inch seam allowance. The holy grail of quilting. Love or hate it, embrace it or ignore it - it can be friend or foe. For those of you who do most projects [...]
To finish, or not to finish?
So how goes your UFO pile? It seems that every quilting and crafting blog I've read this month is exhorting us to make this the month, if not year, of finishing the unfinished projects. I [...]
On giving up “perfect”
'Tis the season! Yes, the season of tinsel and holiday muzak, of cookie bakes and frenzied shopping excursions. And the quilt store where I work is not immune from the insanity... there have been a [...]
Fabric Crush – Sam I Am!
FINALLY!!!! I plan to buy yards of that ORANGE-on-ORANGE "I am Sam I am" print. And I must have pajamas out of something with the eggs motif. Oh, how I like these, Sam I am! [...]
Process – tools!
If you recall, one of the things I pointed out in my original post about process was my desire for efficiency. I like to feel that I waste as little time/fabric/money/regret as possible so as [...]