To longarm or not to longarm, that is the question I typically ask myself after I finish a lap size quilt or larger. And by longarm I usually mean quilt by credit card and ship it to a longarm friend/quilter. Lately, the question has been should I buy a longarm?
This month’s Island Batik Challenge is to create a modern quilt with Hobbs batting! Modern quilts incorporate the use of bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color, improvisational piecing, minimalism, expansive negative space, and/or alternate grid work. You can read more about the Modern Quilt movement and the Modern Quilt Guild page here. The fabrics and batting featured in this...
This week has been a bit of a blur of catching up at my day job and a complete Quilt Market hangover! But it’s Friday and all is well in the world. This is the 3rd Quilt Market I’ve attended, and the second Spring one. For this recap, I wanted to share my thoughts and observations rather than focus on the fun things I saw. ...
Block 6 of Sew Let’s QAL is released today! Read all the details of the QAL here. Don’t forget to bookmark my quick links page for easy access to all of the designers’ and hosts’ blog posts! Block 6 features Wonder Clips and it was designed by Jennifer of Inquiring Quilter. Block 6 is the first block of Segment 2; remember that all patterns for...
Happy Monday! I hope this new pattern brings a bit of joy to the dreadful Monday! This pattern is the last pattern in my spring release. I designed this quilt for Sarah Maxwell’s newest line Peaceful Petals that ships next month!
Happy Friday!!! Today’s the first day of Quilt Market and I’m extremely excited to finally share my Barn Quilt Block of the Month pattern with you! This quilt has taken me years to design and is inspired by barn quilts!
Today, I am so excited to share another new pattern! This pattern was originally shown in Modern By The Yard, but has been updated for 3 different block sizes and 8 different finished quilt sizes!!!
Today, I am so excited to share another new pattern! This quilt showcases Tessie Fay’s new fabric line Pink Lemonade! I met Tessie at Spring Market last year in Portland when she was looking to get licensed by a fabric manufacturer. She signed on with Windham Fabrics and this is her first fabric line!
Today, I am so excited to share my newest pattern! This quilt is the first quilt pattern to be released in the Spring 2019 series of patterns. It’s called Chain Mail (because of all the links shown across the quilt) and uses Blue Sea from Island Batik! Chain Mail is a Fat Eighth friendly pattern!
I am participating in the 5th annual Spring Clean Your Studio Blog Hop hosted by Cheryl Sleboda of Muppin.com. I REALLY needed to clean my studio after the whirlwind of Market prep. My before photos were taken a week or two ago before I started cleaning my studio. It actually got WORSE before it got better. Because of the size of my studio space, I...
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