I was in Salt Lake City this past weekend for the 11th Sewtopia! It was a fun weekend with friends and some fun classes! Sherri Lynn Wood and Karen Lewis were the instructors for this year, and I learned a lot. Sherri Lynn Wood taught an improv angles class. I still think improv is not my thing, but it was fun to learn how to...
This month’s Island Batik Challenge is to create a quilt that is Whimsical and Wonky. This is part 2 of my December challenge. You can read Part 1 here. The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik.
This month’s Island Batik Challenge is to create a quilt that is Whimsical and Wonky. I decided to split my post into two parts due to the holidays, and I haven’t quite finished the quilt yet. The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik. In celebration of the end of the 2018 Monthly Color Challenge tomorrow (the setting instructions are...
Happy Friday! How is it the last week of August already?! Which means the August Color Challenge link up is OPEN to enter your block for prizes! YAY!!! Make sure to head over to Patterns By Jen’s blog to link up. If you missed the kickoff of the challenge, you still have time to make something YELLOW-ORANGE (or Orange-Red) and enter! Read about the August Challenge...
Happy Friday! I can’t believe July is almost over! Which means you only have a few more days to enter your block for prizes! I am reminding you that the July Color Challenge link up is OPEN!!! YAY!!! Make sure to head over to Patterns By Jen’s blog to link up. If you missed the kickoff of the challenge, you still have time to make...
Hello from Kansas City (finally!!!) and a special edition of Friday Foto Fun!!! All my stuff will get delivered later today and I’ll finally be able to get my new sewing room set up and start quilting again! This last month has been ridiculously busy and stressful, but we are almost done! June is almost over which means you only have two more days to...
Do you ever feel like you need a recovery after a super fun vacation? I am still recovering from Sewtopia and trying to get caught up with my day job and everything that I missed while I was away. So what exactly is Sewtopia? Sewtopia is a sewing retreat that is now offered 3 different times during the year: in the spring, summer (new this year), and fall! The fall...
I have always been intrigued by improv quilts, but due to my very square engineer brain I haven’t been allowing myself to experiment with improv… until now! I made a mini quilt using improv paper piecing techniques and I LOVE it! Remember my very square engineer brain, I needed a book to really walk me through some improv thought process rather than a pattern instruction. ...
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