Hello and Good Morning from Portland! Thank you for keeping me accountable to get my artwork creativity in even though I’m still at Quilt Market. It’s Week 20 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! Can you believe it?! If you haven’t started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will be open all year so be sure to check...
My husband and I are moving to Kansas City this summer! I got a new role with my company, and it was finally announced this week, so now I’m sharing! It’s been a crazy couple of weeks because the process of getting the job was so much slower compared to after I accepted the job. Now it’s all go go go move to KC now!...
Today’s the day! Block 1 is released, and I am so excited to share my version of this week’s block. Vanda Chittenden is the designer of this week’s Hedgehog Block. Check out her blog post for the tutorial and the pattern of the block. I appliqued this block with the raw edge applique technique. My block is made of all Moda Grunge fabrics. I decided...
Happy Mother’s Day and welcome to Week 19 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! If you haven’t started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will be open all year so be sure to check back to see what other fellow creatives have made with this week’s exercises. Read more about the challenge here. Without further ado, here are my...
After fabric weaving on my own for the Island Ambassador project (read about that here) and the Modern Stitch Affair class with Tara (read about that here), I wanted to find one of the Simplicity Bias Tape Maker machines. Making the bias tape is the least enjoyable part of fabric weaving for me. Well guess what?! I found it! Last weekend, I took part in...
This month’s Island Batik Challenge is to create a playful pillow! The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and are a part of the Season’s Shade collection. I used my Heartbreaker block that I created in Lib Elliott’s class at Sewtopia as my main center piece. Read about that block here. I decided that my pillow needed a modern...
Welcome to Week 18 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! If you haven’t started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will be open all year so be sure to check back to see what other fellow creatives have made with this week’s exercises. Read more about the challenge here. Without further ado, here are my 7 for this week…...
We made it everyone… it’s finally FRIDAY! There were a couple big announcements earlier this week, so I delayed my Modern Stitching Affair recap until today. Did you miss the announcements? Fall Into A QAL starts May 15 (read about that here) and my May Color Challenge block is up, so don’t forget to download the block for free before the end of the month...
This month’s color is GREEN! If you want more details on the challenge, read about it here. Jen from Patterns by Jen designed a block that can be made in 6″ and 12″ finished. I opted to make all the blocks 12″ to match the blocks I designed. You can get Jen’s block pattern from her blog here. The goal of the challenge is to...
Join me along with a dozen other bloggers in this fun quilt-a-long adventure this summer to get a Fall theme quilt completed by the end of the year! So what exactly is a Quilt-A-Long? A Quilt-A-Long (or QAL) is a quilt you make following a host who posts each step on a schedule. You share your progress and in this case you will get entered...
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