A peak inside my crazy brain. More accurately, a look at the process and fun stuff I perpetually create.

Here to both entertain and inspire you.

 
(True confession: my sewing room is rarely this neat.)
Future Quilters' Playground finishing playground process Mar 18, 2024

Folks, we are getting close. It feels like forever ago that we started and there is still quite a bit of fiddly work to do, but...

Look at my yellow floors! And white walls waiting for the final...

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Quilters' Playcation Adventure Sewalong 2024 - Week 9 Update adventure sewalong play rainbow Mar 06, 2024

We are 9 weeks in to the Quilters' Playcation Adventure Sewalong. This rainbow theme has me in all the feels. It truly is a spot of joy each week.

In previous Adventure Sewalongs I've waited until...

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Let's Define Improv Quilting improv Feb 29, 2024

Over the years, as a quilt teacher and writer, I've seen a lot of different perceptions about improv quilting. Messy, wonky, wild, liberated, unstructured, ugly, gorgeous, scary...

Here's the...

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2023 Quilters' Playcation Adventure Sewalong - Abstract Top Complete adventure sewalong Feb 20, 2024

Not sure why, but I sat on the last month of this quilt top for ages. Needing the joy of play this past weekend got me to go ahead and make the final month in this 2023 Adventure.

The last month...

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10 Simple Things (9) - Trim Your Quilts Well finishing tips Feb 08, 2024

Squaring up quilts scares a lot of people. Try rephrasing it to trimming your quilts.

Truth be told, it is one of my most favourite parts of quilt making. To me, it is the moment when all the...

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The 2023 QPAS Printed Blocks Ready for Assembly adventure sewalong Jan 18, 2024

All the 2023 Quilters' Playcation Adventure Sewalong Blocks are done!

And here they are all together. They are not even remotely the same size. Plus I want to have the quilt read like a...

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Play for the Fun of Playing

There are no expectations on Quilters’ Playcation. Show up for yourself, hang out, sew as little or as much as you want. Nothing you sew on Playcation has to turn into anything. This is all about giving back to yourself and playing for the sake of playing. 

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