The Arne Quilt
One of my quilts is in the Spring 2013 issue of Modern Quilts Unlimited! This is one of my all-time favorites. Yay! The Arne Quilt is an improv pattern inspired by this textile design by Arne Jacobson. I first…
Shibori Itajime Quilt
My design wall got a huge dose of awesome slapped up there today! Fun, right? These will all be sewn together to make a quilt for my cousin Kelly, who got married in October On the big day, I gave the…
Pillows
You'll have to forgive me if I end up being short on words here... I sometimes find it tricky to say much about a project if I'm blogging about it a while after I've completed it. Why the delay? I…
Retreat Report: Quilt Con 2013
In the three weeks since last I blogged: (1) I went to QuiltCon (yay!) (2) I returned home from QuiltCon to a very sick boyfriend who had an emergency appendectomy that night. (Yuck!) But he's okay! (Yay!) (3) I had…
The Conversation Quilt (with tutorial!)
I've got two quilts in the show at Quilt Con this week--Fulls Stops and The Conversation Quilt! I blogged about Full Stops fairly recently (you can read about it here and here), but the one on the right has only…
Book Review: Quilting Modern
Today's review is of Quilting Modern: Techniques and Projects for Improvisational Quilters by Jacquie Gering and Katie Pederson What it is: A review of seven techniques used by improvisational quilters, showing several quilts using each technique. Basic breakdown of the book’s contents: (1)…
QuiltCon Linky Party
The MQG has a post up asking people going to QuiltCon to share their faces a little information about themselves so that we can all know each other a bit better when we arrive in Austin. Well, here's me... As…
Oh, scrap!
Thanks so much for all the thoughtful discussion and feedback from my last post. I love that we can be supportive and diverse! I've got a few ideas cooking as a result of our conversations, but not much that is…
Modern Pill
After seeing about a dozen "I love my local quilt shop" posts on Instagram and the blogs with no explanation of where this ritual came from or who was behind it, I posted the following on Instagram: Under my image,…
mega XPLUS is pieced!
It was mega fun, and now piecing is mega done! I can't decide which is my favorite block, but it's probably this one: In her tutorial for this Setsuko Inawaga block, Badskirt points out that the X-part of the block…