I’m back from my third round at Missouri Star Academy in Hamilton, MO. Put on by the folks at Missouri Star Quilt Company, the event was a little different this year than the two previous. It was held, like it was the first year, at the local United Methodist Church, but was split into two […]
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Lisa Congdon has been an artist I’ve followed casually for a long time. She first came to my attention back in 2013 when she designed fabric for Cloud9 Fabrics. Around the same time she moved to Portland and she had my attention. Then last year, Sam of Hunter’s Design Studio worked with her to create
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I met Alex Anderson last fall at Quilt Market, years after I started following her in the quilt industry. I look up to her immensely as she has much the same passion that I do about sewing and quilting. We both really just want everyone to find their happy place here! A lot of that
Alex Anderson and I doing tutorials– whoda thunk? Read More »
For decades I’ve sewn in a corner of my bedroom, in the basement, in the kitchen and in the living room. But last year I inherited the big studio in our loft when Luke moved to Kansas City. I had moved down to Los Angeles in 2016 with my sewing machine and a few boxes
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April 7th was a big day for me. For the last few months, Hawke and I had been working nearly every day on the Ascension Quilt, a collaborative art quilt based on his wall mural. We had a hard deadline for the Brewery Artwalk and neither of us were entirely confident it was going to be
Back at Fall Quilt Market in Houston, the folks from ODIF came by the Shannon Fabrics booth to show off a couple new products they have. I happily promote their 505 Basting Spray in my classes (it really is the best/least stinky), so I was excited to see what else they had. My co-worker Ellen handed me
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Late spring last year, I was able to help Luke out with some piecing for a quilt he did for the Stagecoach music festival, piecing the denim/star part of the quilt background you can see in this cute pic from Instagram (I have no idea who @sophieschillaci is, but it’s her photo with some country
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The Back to School Blog Hop is back and I’m excited to participate again this year. We had a great run last year (I talked about all sort of pressing issues – pardon the pun) and it’s back again with 32 sewists and quilters sharing our hard-earned wisdom with y’all. Thanks to the amazing Sam
What’s What: Top-, Edge-, and Under-stitching Read More »
I first saw the Single Girl quilt from Denyse Schmidt years ago and knew that someday I’d have to make it. I’d been single again for a decade already with no intention on re-marrying and while I adore the double-wedding ring pattern (and in fact made one for a wedding gift last year), I knew
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It’s about time to kick off this sewing curves series and we’re going to start with (what I think is) the easiest of curves: freeform. You’re in complete control of how curvy your pieces are, how wide they are and how simple (or complicated!) the whole piece is. Let’s start with what you’re going to
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