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Using a Quilt to Inspire a New Design: Combining Appliqué and FPP
I gather inspiration for my quilts from a wide range of sources, including nature, architecture, and aspects of daily life. However, I rarely use contemporary quilts as design inspiration- unless...
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How I Made a Unique Abstract Mini Quilt Using Natural Inspiration
Implementing constraints in your design process is one of the best ways to encourage creativity, so when one of my quilting groups did a challenge earlier this year, I was excited to participate. This...
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Innovation on Tradition: Making Hexagons with a New Perspective
Each year, the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show issues a challenge within their contest to create quilts with a specific theme. Whereas most quilts at the show are on display for a few days, quilts in this...
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Can an “Ugly” Color be Successful? A Surprising Mocha Mousse Quilt
In December 2024, Pantone announced our current color of the year: Mocha Mousse. I was not thrilled, to put it mildly. There is plenty of brown in nature (I spend half the year looking at brown fields...
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Give Yourself Permission to Innovate: How I Made Triple Silk Translucence
When an art form has been around as long as quilting, it is challenging to discover new ways of innovating within the parameters of traditional techniques, especially when you’re also working within...
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It’s Time to Celebrate a Successful New Year’s Resolution!
I shared the first three weeks of my Hue Year’s Resolution Project a few weeks ago. The project encourages artists to start the new year by creating five small weekly projects focusing on a single...
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Inspiring Cheerful Textile Art with Hue Year’s Resolution
The beginning of the year brings calls to join many fun and inspiring challenges. Since I dive heavily into my 100-day project at the beginning of each January, I rarely participate in any other...
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100 Days of Hexagons: Blocks 1-10 and Fabric Choices
Every year in early April many people in the creative community launch a 100 day project simultaneously. Prior to this year, I had never participated in the event because it typically overlaps before...
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Entries for QuiltCon 2020
The QuiltCon show entry deadline was earlier this week, and, as always, it seemed to sneak up on me. This year I decided to aim for five entries, which is the maximum number of quilts that one person...
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Whole Circle Whole Cloth
I love a challenge, and this month Aurifil challenged it’s artisans to create a whole cloth mini quilt using a Paintbrush Studios Painter’s Palette Solid and a coordinating thread in our choice of...
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Ice Cream Quilt
Each Summer I design a Row by Row for a local quilt shop, Dabble and Stitch, and I loved this year’s row so much, I decided to make a wall quilt featuring the design. The ice cream cone design evokes...
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Central Ohio MQG Community Outreach Quilt
Each year the Modern Quilt Guild puts out a call for Community Outreach Quilts for a special exhibit at QuiltCon. The MQG provides a color palette and theme, and the guilds or groups of individual...
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Angled: A Modern Meets Modern Mini Quilt
Towards the end of 2021, the International Quilt Museum issued a challenge in conjunction with their exhibit, Modern Meets Modern. They asked participants to create a 16″ square mini quilt in response...
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Entries for QuiltCon 2020
The QuiltCon show entry deadline was earlier this week, and, as always, it seemed to sneak up on me. This year I decided to aim for five entries, which is the maximum number of quilts that one person...
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100 Days of Hexagons: Blocks 31-40 and Sliver Inserts
Another ten days have passed, and ten more blocks of my 100 Hexagons are finished! With this batch, I attempted to make a few blocks that are lower contrast and/or incorporate fewer pieces. This will...
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100 Days of Hexagons: Blocks 21-30 and Improv
Another ten hexagons are finished and joining their friends on the design wall! So far, the hexagons for this project have all embraced improv piecing, so today I’m giving you a brief behind the scenes...
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My favorite thread weight: The Value of Coral
What is your favorite thread weight? When I was asked this question recently, my first thought was 12wt Aurifil because it is my favorite when I want the thread to take center stage. However, it only...
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100 Days of Hexagons: Blocks 11-20 and the Initial Design Process
My quilt of yellow hexagons has continued to grow over the past ten days, and I’m excited to share the newest blocks with you today. (You can check out the first ten blocks here.) These blocks are...
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100 Days of Hexagons: Blocks 1-10 and Fabric Choices
Every year in early April many people in the creative community launch a 100 day project simultaneously. Prior to this year, I had never participated in the event because it typically overlaps before...
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Entries for QuiltCon 2020
The QuiltCon show entry deadline was earlier this week, and, as always, it seemed to sneak up on me. This year I decided to aim for five entries, which is the maximum number of quilts that one person...
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