Sewist-artist-maker I watch football & hockey I am a Duck and I love the Penguins Yellow is the best color Penguins make the best pets (or so I am told) Sometimes I use swear words
An improv Foundation Paper Pieced (FPP) binding for a spark to frame your quilt. Use the angled scrap pieces from your quilt to make a unique binding! This technique uses adding machine paper and scraps to make a binding for your quilt. Use your own scraps or create pieces for use in this technique. Materials […]
Do you have a new planner for 2024? Do you have a sketchbook for ideas and plans? Do you have a binder or notebook to keep patterns? Would you like to make a unique cover for that book to keep everything in? If you have answered yes to any of these questions you should […]
Over 10 years ago I tried weaving fabric strips into a basket. I had no idea how to weave a basket, but I knew how to create fabric strips. My inspiration was a ceramic dish I purchased while we were living in Italy. I wanted to figure out a way to make a fabric version for […]
A new year is here and that means time for clean up and organization of the studio. Every January I try to use the turn of the calendar year as a way to take a fresh look at my space and how I use it. This helps me figure out what I want to focus […]
This year has been a bit off course from what I imagined. I have not completed the projects & goals I had for the year. A new year is around the corner and life is settling down a bit here so it is the perfect time to step back and try this plan again….and maybe […]
Stickers! I have a thing for stickers and I cannot lie. I have been experimenting with different ways to create custom helpers for my Quilter’s Planner. Some have worked great, some not so great. My first try was to create mini stickers to help keep up with my sewing and quilting tasks. These stickers are […]
I couldn’t make just one. Making two was sew much more fun! Twin Jackets!! Almost identical…one warm, one cool. I dug into my stash of Alison Glass fabric to create these quilted jackets using my Sketchbook Jacket pattern. The quilted jackets are custom made for and wrapped around a 2019 Quilter’s Planner. Which […]
OH the excitement when the 2019 Quilter’s Planner arrived and I opened the beautiful box!! The anticipation of its arrival was intense. Not just because I have a quilt featured in the companion magazine, but, because I want 2019 to be better than 2018…and 2018 has been sooooooo good! I ordered the unbound version just […]
I have been searching high and low for stickers to use in my planner that will fit my sewing related plans. I have found a few, but, nothing that includes all the tasks we sewists like to plan and track. I found these Avery labels and decided to try them. The Avery website has […]
Having a quilt pattern in the 2019 Quilter’s Planner is surreal. I have been an avid user of this planner for the last 2 years, admiring the patterns, beautiful photography, and colorful imagery…not to mention the perfect planning tool for everything! And now, my pattern will be part of that…for an entire year!! Without further ado I […]
Pre-orders for the 2019 Quilter’s Planner opened up this past weekend and I have some exciting news to share with this release… Yes, that is my name on the cover of The Quilter’s Planner Magazine! Sitting on this news has not been easy. And look who the featured designer is… This year you can […]
From endings come new beginnings! This quilt! For the last three years I have been part of a quilting bee. A quilting bee of 13 ladies from all over the USA (and now Ireland) who quilt for each other every month and share a love of quilting & sewing. We have gotten to know each […]
The Sketchbook Jacket PDF pattern is now available. This pattern first appeared in Love Patchwork & Quilting magazine Issue 35. Now you can visit my Payhip pattern shop and purchase the PDF pattern for download. This pattern includes over 20 color photos to help you visualize the steps in making your very own Sketchbook Jacket. […]
In September I attended the first ever SewPro Convention. I learned a lot and met so many fantastic people. Among them was Anne Beier of Hudson Valley Quilts. I feel so fortunate to have connected with her! She is an energetic and studious sewist. I love her inquisitive nature and her ability to turn her […]
A new pattern and a giveaway…all wrapped in one for the season. It’s getting cold outside and what would be better to make than something to keep you warm, relax your tired muscles, and make you feel cozy? A microwavable heat pack made with all natural flax seed and cotton fabrics. At the end of […]
Welcome to my first blog hop. In September I was fortunate to attend in the first Sew Pro Convention in Chicago. The experience was amazing in so many ways. I tried to go into the event with no expectations because I wanted to absorb and learn as much as possible. I came away having learned more than […]
We moved. Or I should clarify we are moving. My Soldier retired and decided that Paradise was not the place for him. The retirement and moving will be in a future post because there are far too many tangents this post could go on. For now we are living “the in between” time of having […]
Halfway there…and this challenge has been more than I imagined! Back in August, Angie at gnomeangel.com announced on her Instagram account (@gnomeangel) she was going to be starting a sew along following Tula Pink’s City Sampler: 100 Modern Quilt Blocks. She tagged it #100days100blocks . I bought the book in 2013 and I figured this was […]
I am so excited to present my first magazine submission….and it made the cover!! It’s a tropical treat!! I was trying to come up with a very small pineapple block to work into a cover for my sketchbook. I had already worked out a pattern for a larger pineapple block (11 in x 7 […]
I developed this pattern for potholders when I couldn’t find any terry potholders that were thick enough for me to use without feeling the burn. It seems all the potholders are cotton fabric with a thin layer of padding…and the cotton fabric doesn’t wash up as nice as the terry cotton. The Fabric Box for […]
