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House Mini Challenge
At the beginning of August, Curated Quilts Magazine issued a mini quilt challenge with a specific color palette and the theme of “House.” I’m am very drawn to architectural details, so I decided to...
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Entries for QuiltCon 2019
I love to enter quilt shows! It is so much fun to have the opportunity to share what I make with other quilters from around the world, and I am hopeful that I may be able to share a quilt (or more!)...
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Ebb and Flow
Each year The Modern Quilt Guild includes a style/technique challenge category in QuiltCon, and this year the challenge is a two color quilt. I was excited to approach this project because I had been...
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QuiltCon Jury Results
Every year I enter at least seven juried shows, and QuiltCon is probably the one I fret over the most. It is definitely the show that I have received the most rejections from! Thankfully, the jury...
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Curves Mini Quilt Challenge
At the beginning of last month Curated Quilts Magazine issued a mini quilt challenge with the theme of “curves” for an upcoming issue. I have been sewing lots of curves and circles in the past few...
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2018 Year in Review
Around the beginning of every year, I like to look back on the previous year. I have usually accomplished more than it feels like I have, and 2018 was no exception. I started the year with a 100 Day...
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Triple Dimensional Star
This Spring I designed a new quilt block. In reality, I probably designed a couple dozen blocks, but this one actually got made up in fabric- not once, but twice! Vote for your favorite block at the...
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Forward and Back
This Spring one of the quilt groups I’m in issued a challenge to try out a technique called interleaving, and this mini quilt is the result. The idea behind interleaving is to take two relatively...
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Anna Maria Horner & Aurifil Showcase Project
If you have followed me long, you may have noticed that I love a good challenge, so when Aurifil offered their Artisans an opportunity to make a project using Anna Maria Horner’s fabric and Aurifil...
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The Value of Coral: A Work in Progress
Coral is just about the perfect color as far as I’m concerned. It sits so nicely between pink and orange which is one of my favorite color combinations. So when Pantone announced the color of the...
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Composition
I am honored to be an Aurifil Artisan for the second year, and I am particularly excited to participate in a series of challenges that showcase the way their thread is used. The first challenge is to...
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Urban Cabins
Earlier this year a quilt group I belong to, The Columbus Modern Quilters, issued a challenge based on a photograph one of our members took in downtown Columbus, Ohio. (You can see the photo and...
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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