This past weekend I had the pleasure of presenting and teaching to the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild. It was a fun and busy weekend and I loved getting to know the women and men of the guild. I had some of the crazy tales of travel including a mad dash across an airport to […]
Goodness! When it rains, it pours! Ironically today ANOTHER great free tutorial/pattern of mine is also available now. This time it is with Pellon and their EZ Steam II product plus some fabulous Anna Maria Horner fabric from Free Spirit fabrics. I take you step by step how to apply the EZ Steam II to
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I was looking recently for a project to kind of move me out of a sewing slump and so I decided to drink the kool aid over on IG and participate in a QAL going on there. People are coming in droves to make an epic quilt (as they all are) of Jen Kingwell’s. It
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I don’t know if anyone is still looking for gift ideas for your teachers for this year, but hopefully this will help someone. I searched and thought and searched and thought about what to do for my daughter’s teachers this year. I know everyone says to just get them a gift card and be
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I’m excited to share this quilt pattern with you all that has been floating around in my brain for so many years now. I’ve shown versions of it before and had requests for the pattern, so here is your chance to finally get it. It is featured in the McCall’s Quilting July/August 2015 issue. It will be available
Well what can I say? Life has been busy and then exhausting. I feel I have so many things to blog about but I just haven’t had the time or energy. I hardly know where to start. But I figured I should share one of the bigger trips that I’ve been on lately…and perhaps you’ll
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I haven’t made too many items for the year long birthday swap I’ve been a part of since July. But every once in a while there is a project that I want to tackle…and it’s usually crafty and involves paint and glue rather than thread or yarn. So when Anna had a striped canvas with
I know I already showed you all the finished top for the pillow that I made at Sewtopia in the class by Rita of Red Pepper Quilts. I absolutely love how it turned out! I did a simple cross hatch quilting a la Rita to just play with the lines of the design. I used
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Oh I’m so excited! I actually finished a quilt top from my Sewtopia weekend (I’ve finished both projects from our classes but one at a time here…gotta spread the posts out!). The first finish I want to share with you (and disclaimer, by “finish” I mean I pieced the top) is the fabulous curved design,
Goodness! How is it Thursday already? I feel like the week just slipped away from me. But before it goes entirely, I wanted to share with you all my very fun sewing weekend I had this past weekend in Chicago. I attended the second Sewtopia weekend, this time held in Chicago, and this time held
