Archive for June 2011 | Monthly archive page
I find that making a quilt is a lot more fun then writing up the instructions for the quilt project. But, I must learn to love the writing up part too, I have to do plenty of it, so I should try to enjoy it a little more. As promised, I have the instructions for [...]
Happy one year anniversary to Fabri-Quilt and I! It was one year ago today, that I got the phone call from Fabri-Quilt about my submission I had sent them with my textile design samples. They wanted to know if I would like to design a collection for them. Heck YES! That was for my first [...]
Before I start any new projects, I wanted to get some pillowcases made for the allpeoplequilt.com 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge. I made one dozen for now and plan on making at least that again in the fall. It is a start, for now. I have to tell you, this is a quick, fun and rewarding [...]
I was contacted by Martha from South Carolina asking if I could give her the yardage requirements so she could make a king size Garden Trellis quilt, like the one featured in Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting July/August 2011 magazine. Well, if one person was looking for a king size version, maybe someone else [...]
We all have it, those bags, boxes, bins of bits of scrap materials we just cannot think of throwing away. The “I will use it one of these days” mentalities all craft and sewing people seem to have. Well, what about all that wonderful, sturdy selvedge edges that are cut or torn off the materials [...]
