A week from today, I will be standing in my very own booth at Quilt Market! And right here in Kansas City, too! I am so excited for all of the hard work to come together and for the supplies to get o...
Because I am in the midst of Quilt Market prep and all of the booth-building, sample-sewing, paperwork-creating craziness that goes with that, it’s been fairly quiet here on the blog. The stars...
Wrapping up the week-o-new-patterns, we have the Home Sweet Home pillowcase pattern! In the midst of our many moves last year, I started thinking about how we’d decorate our new home and I coul...
Next in line for the Spring pattern line up, is Crosshatch. It is a quilt pattern in three sizes! The design for this quilt evolved quite a bit over a very short period of time. I sketched some layer...
I grew up using a wonderful handmade felt advent calendar that one of my aunts made for us. Each day you got to snap a new ornament on a little felt tree hanging on the wall. My sister and I used to ...
Here it is! My first official pattern publishing a design by Angela Walters! Oh, Bleachers quilt. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… 1) I love that it looks just as great in ‘manl...
Getting to finally announce new patterns is such a fun day. These were initially written around Christmas, sent to a team of fantastic testers in January, quilted in February, photographed in March a...
My first year of teaching (nine years ago! Wow!), I was fortunate enough to work for an amazing administrator. My teaching friends and I still refer to those years as our “Camelot.” One o...
It’s a good thing I love to bind a quilt. It’s true. I do! That number in the post title? That would be the number of inches of binding that I’ve hand sewn down in the last couple o...
The Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild is hosting someone special in two months! Weeks Ringle from Modern Quilt Studio will be in town to give a lecture and trunk show at our May meeting. If you are in t...
I’ve joked with some friends before about the ‘issue’ of quilts made by people who don’t blog about them. I asked, “If a quilt is made and not blogged about, is it like ...
Today I am sharing a quilt we recently gave to my parents. It’s a “thank you” quilt for something that deserves 1,000 quilts. It also is special to me because of the friends who wer...
Have you been to Target lately? You need to! I am a girl who loves a good trip to wander the aisles at “the red store” (as my kids call it). We live a half mile from a Super Target, door ...
Hot on the heels of my previous pillow making post, we have a new pillow cover in the house! But I didn’t design it. I merely provided the labor and materials. A certain little lady here was in...
I think 2012 is going to be The Year of the Pillow for me. For many reasons (namely the fact that they are fast and fun to make), but mostly because we bought couches that came with hideous pillows. ...
Guess who I got to Skype with last week?! The Internet is such a beautiful thing, you know it? Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last, oh, seven years or so, you’ll know it&#...
Our kids attend a local preschool two full days a week. I tell you, it’s good for all parties involved. They each have two teachers and I think the world of them. During a fall with so m...
Today I am sharing three quilts that were made in the summer of 2011. I have not shared them until now because, honestly, I didn’t know how I was going to sum up my thoughts enough to be able t...
2011 was a big one around here. Both personally, as we spent the year soaking up all that San Diego had to offer before moving back to Kansas City, and professionally, as it was the year I officially...
As the clock ticks closer and closer to Christmas Day, I wanted to share a little Christmas-Sewing-Family-Handma de Gift Giving story that sums up my feelings about this time of year. We are blessed t...
Earlier this fall I learned that Kelly, a newish friend who photographed my Zigzagged pattern, was organizing a HUGE fundraiser for the Kyrie Foundation. The Kyrie Foundation raises awareness and fu...
Photo used with permission The very best thing about writing patterns is seeing what people create from them. I am working on our own stockings this weekend (because, as we all know, the cobbler̵...
I am officially sewing again! Our house is settled enough to justify some quality time with my sewing machine. I’ve not really sewn in the last month, so it is a very welcome change in my routi...
The last few weeks have been quiet around here. But for good reason! Two weeks ago we moved into our new house! Fourteen months and four addresses later, we are HOME. And it feels gooooood. [Why, yes...
Of all of the things to focus on in starting a business, there is one that is at the top of my list. It’s not logo or website or marketing. It’s not the fabric choices or picking the right commercial...
Fall Quilt Market was in Houston last weekend and there are so many posts floating around out there showing the wonderful new fabric lines and designs. Reading through your Google Reader is like your...
On to part two of the new Christmas patterns! The Wonderland Tree Skirt! This pattern has two different looks: wonky or straight piecing and two options for fabric choices- a variety of fat quarters ...
I am more excited than ever to be able to announce these two patterns! Our family had stockings that were perfectly fine. But, I sew and the fact that our stockings were store bought was driving me c...
I’ve met so many incredible women through the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild. One of those women, Jenifer Dick, is an author and designer who happens to have a new book out this month! Jenifer ...
Someone check my sanity level, please. I’ve started on another Quiet Book. This time, for Graham! I love this boy. And his red hair. Graham turns two next week and Eleanor got her Quiet Book fo...
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