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My New Slow Project – Union Jacks
I know it probably seems weird that someone who sews for work also sews to relax. I’m lucky to have several social sewing opportunities each month, and I try hard not to take my work to them. Sewing...
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Market is coming… again! And cool news from Aurifil!
Spring Quilt Market is coming up, starting May 14th in Minneapolis this year. Like other people in the industry, I’m beginning to dig into the final stretch of work that needs to be done. I’m again...
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Spring Cleaning Blog Hop begins today!
Today kicks off a fun blog hop! Cheryl Sleboda of Muppin.com, and maven of the fabulous sewing skully merch, asked a group of us to show some before and after shots of doing a little studio cleaning....
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Spring Clean Your Studio – my turn!
Don’t hate me. Truly. And no… this is not a Pantene commercial! This post is supposed to be about showing you my messy studio, and then showing you the cleaned up version, but here’s the thing: I don’t...
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New Pattern + Tutorial – Chunky Wee Zippy Pouches
I released five new patterns for Spring Quilt Market, and I’m going to take the next few days to introduce them here: first up is Chunky Wee Zippy Pouches. This pattern includes instructions for the...
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New Pattern – Give It A Whirl!
Here’s my second pattern for spring, Give It A Whirl! It’s block based (the blocks are 16” finished), with 2 sizes listed, but also easy to make any size you want. It’s for sale hard copy here and PDF...
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New Pattern – Fourteen SQUARED
This is third new pattern for the spring season, Fourteen Squared – another Fast Fat Quarter Friendly Pattern (say that three times, fast… I dare you!) This is the third outing of the 14 Fat Quarter...
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New Pattern – Fin and Dandy
This is the fourth pattern for this season, Fin and Dandy – with kudos to Megan, The Bitchy Stitcher, for her help with finding the perfect name for it! Two quilt sizes are included – a twin at 60” x...
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New Pattern – Chain, Chain, Chain + Aurifil
UPDATED 06.03.15 11am: Hoffman Fabrics has added a bundle to the giveaway! This is fifth and last of the spring Quilt Market releases – Chain, Chain, Chain (go on, sing it with me, that’s right!) I...
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Aurifil + Chains + Hoffman = Winner!
Random.org chose post 118: I deleted a few duplicate comments from the line-up to get to 165 – it seems spellcheck thinks TEAL is REAL! Ha! Anyway – 118 is Donna Wall, whose color choice is RED is...
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Sew Together Bag – Elastic Modifications
Back in February, I wrote about having a bit of an obsession for making Sew Together bags. I was working through a list of friends to gift them to, but had not yet settled on the one that would become...
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Quilt Talk Goes Tiny
How small can you go? As it happens… pretty dang small! I belong to the Portland Modern Quilt Guild, and we get extra door prize tickets if we have a hand-made name badge. So my friend Monica said she...
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New Pattern + Tutorial: Turning Points
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a …fabric triangle??? Well, sort of! It’s a flying goose that also happens to be a prairie point! Yes, I’ve been playing with prairie points again, this time in a...
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Updates to the Free Patterns page!
For the last couple of years, I’ve been designing some fast and easy free patterns for Janome, in a partnership that has allowed me to borrow a wonderful machine from them. Recently, they did some web...
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WASWI – Should you tip in the quilting industry?
Tipping. The cash kind, not the cow kind! How do you feel about it? And should it be part of the quilting economy? I would really welcome your thoughts and discussion in the comments. I ask YOU this...
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Quilt Talk Bonus Pattern – Do No Harm!
I love quotes. I’ve subscribed to a few “quote of the day” emails over the years, and I’m a sucker for a chunky little book of them. I think this one might be the next in my collection. I like how they...
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WASWI – Legs of the same table
We need each other. Every person, in every role in the quilting industry, whether it’s on the buying side or the selling side, from the CEO to the fledgling sewist, is necessary. Absolutely necessary....
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WASWI – Saying NO (or more Snappy Comebacks)
Recently, Karri G wrote with this question: “What do you say when someone wants you to make them a copy of a pattern without sounding holy than thou?” First of all, can I just say I don’t care about...
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Back to School Blog Hop is coming next week!
I’m so excited about this! I put a call out a few weeks back amongst my industry friends, asking for blog posts for tips and tricks on the basics of sewing and quilting, and WOWZA – do we have a great...
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Back to School Blog hop starts TODAY!
WOOHOO! Here we go! As all the kiddos head back to school, I thought it might be fun for us to head back too, and learn a few new tips and tricks for our quilting and sewing practices. So I reached...
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