Do you ever find one of those books that you want to share with the world? That you think that literally everyone should own because it is so awesome? Or a book that speaks to you in a way no other book has? It grabs you with it its words, its photography, its story, its […]
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Back in the Spring, Laura Gunn sent me some fat quarters from her latest line for Michael Miller fabrics, Vignette. Those fabrics have been sitting in my sewing room, mocking me…telling me to get a move on and DO something with them. So I finally did. I decided on a simple four patch quilt from
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
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’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
I finally got to do a little deadline – less sewing. It’s been a while, let me tell you. I pulled out the quilt for my friend Cara, meamom, who is part of a traveling quilt group I’m in, #quiltjourney. It’s been a while since I’ve worked on one of these quilts for all number
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Sometimes life gets away from me…well honestly it does that quite a bit. So when I realized today that I had never blogged about this quilt, I just had to laugh. It’s been available as a pattern in Modern Patchwork, Winter 2015 for quite a while now. In all honesty, this particular issue of the
The Fat Quarter Shop has released another video with a FREE pattern perfect for those adorable charm packs we all collect (usually with no idea what to do with them! lol). They asked me to do my own version of the quilt “Charm Pack Cherry” and I happily agreed. I used the lovely new line
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I feel like I’m creating things a bit slower these days. Long story, but there are health and pain issues I’ve been dealing with, and I just don’t have the energy to head to the sewing room at the end of the day. Oh and my daughter’s school schedule changed from last year, so even
A couple of weeks ago I made this fabulous paper pieced block designed by Penny (Sewtakeahike) and Kerry (verykerryberry) of the design team Sew-ichigo. And can I just say that this is awesome?! Because it is. I’ve loved this pattern from the moment Kerry started posting sneak peaks of her version on Instagram earlier this
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