There are many ways to be yourself within the world of quilting. You can be wildly improvisational or you can follow a pattern to the letter. You can use unconventional fabric combinations or use a tried-and-true collection of colors. Most…
Hey ya’ll! I want to point your towards my friend Malka Dubrawsky’s upcoming class "10 Ways to Love Improvisation" on Creative Live. If you RSVP, you can watch it for free on October 8th and 9th (use this link: http://cr8.lv/malkablogtour ) The…
At a guild meeting just a few weeks before our wedding, I was surprised to receive this quilt from the Ann Arbor Quilt Guild: Pictured here with awesome quilter and friend Jenna, who is stopping the wind from toppling that quilt…
Are you only here for the quilts? Then please skip this post, we'll be back to the usual programming shortly! This post is about my wedding and honeymoon. I am, it turns out, not really a wedding person. At least…
I am super excited to share with ya'll the quilts that my pattern testers made while I was working on my pattern for the Greek Plus Puss quilt. I love pattern testers! They are invaluable for finding typos, pointing out…
NEW PATTERN FOR SALE! You can get it for $9 on Etsy or Craftsy. This quilt came about because I bought a fat-eighth bundle of Peppered Cottons and wanted to play with them all at once and in a way that brought out the colors…
I spent a fair amount of time earlier this summer working on descriptions for the quilts that my guild, the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild, had selected to hang in our special exhibit, "Modern Quilts." at the GAAQG's biennial show.…
This weekend is the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild's biennial show. This is an enormous show put on by the big guild in town--a guild that has all kinds of quilters--traditional, art, modern, et cetera. There's some overlap with the…
While keeping my stash organized is important for my creative flow (see my post about stash management here), another consideration is making sure that my stash actually contains the fabrics I am going to use. Or should I say the fabrics…
Sometimes I really like Mondays. The fresh start of it all. I like being able to put everything in its place, think through what I need to be accomplished that week, and then begin. Since I'm quilting full time this…