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.)
So, I took a little trip this summer. A big, big trip, really. In the midst of all the excitement and travel I even managed to sew a little.
My daughter was competing in Alexandria, Egypt and...
The vast majority of my quilts start with an experiment. An idea or an inspiration and an attempt to translate it into fabric.
Sometimes they don't work. I might try again or I just move on. Other...
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...
Here in Canada the sewing seems to slow down as the sun starts to shine longer and the birds begin singing.
A few years back I asked the question, thinking it was only me, about whether sewing is...
Every quilt tells a story and fabric selection is often the heart of that story.
Without fabric we wouldn’t have a quilt, so it gets top billing in our story telling. Fabric makes up...
One of the most frequent questions I am asked is just how small of a scrap do I keep?
The short answer is that I keep anything that can still be sewn and seen.
If you keep a 1/4" seam...
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!