Quilt Market was this past weekend and in case you’ve never heard of it (and I hadn’t until a couple years ago!), let me briefly explain: Twice yearly, the quilting industry gathers for a three-plus day convention to offer up a look at the new patterns, tools and fabrics. It’s for the trade, so it’s […]
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I’m slaving away at Quilt Market this weekend and already exhausted from just one day. Three more to go–how am I gonna make it?! Yesterday were the Schoolhouse sessions and my work put on seven of them. In a row. It was a bit of a madhouse with people rushing in and out at the
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You might think of Portland as the place where young people come to retire, but seriously, it is so much more than the Portlandia show makes it seem. Next week fabric retailers, designers and bloggers are descending on the city for Spring Quilt Market and I am stoked. What could be better, really? So many
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Who doesn’t get a little thrill when there’s a package with your name on it at the front door? It’s one of my favorite ways to come home. On Tuesday, I got two packages–an order and a surprise. Abby Glassenberg‘s newest book, Stuffed Animals: From Concept to Construction, came across my desk at work late
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I first heard of Thomas Knauer back in 2011 when he was releasing his first line with Andover. It was a lovely collection called “Pear Tree” and I remember seeing him in Houston at Quilt Market carrying a bag he had made out of this lovely large-scale partridge-in-a-pear-tree print. I was too shy to say
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Learn more about interlining and interfacing for couture jackets so I can re-do my daughter’s and make it perfect. Print out these maps and make something cool. Make this tote/clutch, even without the tutorial (it seems to have completely disappeared?) Make every item in the new Stuffed Animals book by Abby Glassenberg.
It seems that Amazon has gone ahead and taken over yet another company, this time it’s Goodreads. I find it both disappointing and a little frightening. They already took over Audible and now Goodreads, all in the name of making it easier for their Kindle customers. I don’t particularly like it, but plenty are already talking
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Angela shared her sewing journal project on Sew,Mama,Sew! Print out your own pages with her handy PDF. The Forest Quilt-A-Long is well on its way and I’m eager to get to paper piecing some blocks myself. I really have to find the time to use that Creativebug subscription, especially now
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A new pattern from Sara at Sew Sweetness, I had to try it out. But I can never do things the easy way. I have to add a dozen layers of difficulty, of course. Instead of using the Kokka fabric I had originally intended, I did this with strips I recently bought: [side note: I
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It’s been too long, but finally the sun is peeking out and it makes me so very happy.
