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.)
Do you remember those old Choose Your Own Adventure books? Everyone started at the same place, with the basics of the story. But at the first corner, the first conflict, the first mystery you had...
You know how you sew and get covered in little threads from your fabric? Yeah, those are also all over the back of your quilt and in your seams too.
Take fifteen minutes to look at your quilt top...
It isn't that no other creatures in the world play for the sake of playing. But it is our imagination fuelling play that truly sets us apart.
The great writer Ursula K. Le Guin called the...
The excitement of finishing the last seam of a quilt top will almost always outweigh going back and trimming details. Almost always.
Even if you aren't making a show quilt - a quilt to entered in...
From an orphaned block to a bed size quilt. Sometimes you have to make just because the fabric makes you happy.
That is exactly what happened here. It was a discarded block, a sample for a class I...
For a long time my default end of a seam routine was to stick in a scrap of fabric, often called a spider, so I didn't have to hold my threads to start and stop.
Someone then introduced me to the...
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.
Start Playing!