** Modern Christmas Tree Skirt Workshop on December 5th at Modern Domestic!** This has to be one of the most requested patterns i’ve ever had. Since I first made this tree skirt for a Flickr swap years ago I have gotten many emails requesting a pattern for it. I always had intentions of put it together, but just never got to it. I finally decided it needed to be done. I really wanted to do something outside of the box as far as fabric choices went and I immediately thought of Succulence for this tree skirt. Even though the colors…
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AGF Stitched // Welded Quilt
Read moreI am so excited to share this quilt with you, I only wish I had the time to quilt it before this post! I have been out of town for a few weeks, so I had to hurry to get this pieced the last two days, so quilting will be happening this weekend I hope. The pattern for this round of AGF Stitched with Kimberly is the Welded Quilt by Art Gallery Fabrics. It’s a very simple quilt to piece, but due to the nature of the piecing you get a really great square turned on point. As with all…
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Modern Feathers Class
Read moreNext month i’ll be teaching a Modern Free-Motion Feathers class at Modern Domestic on their new Bernina Q24 longarm! If you have a midarm or longarm machine, or like to rent time on the longarm at the shop, and have wanted to learn the basics of quilting feathers, this is the class for you! We will start at the very beginning, learning how to form a basic feather spine and petal and from there branch out to learn just what we can do with it. You can add fun things like decorative spines, swirls between feathers and branch out…
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Painted Basket Quilt Pattern
Read moreThe Painted Basket Quilt pattern is now available. You can read more about the quilt in this post and you can find the pattern for purchase here. If you’re someone that likes working with Jelly Rolls, this is a strip friendly pattern. The pattern lists both yardage and strip amounts needed for the different fabrics, making it easy to swap in leftover strips from other projects. While quilt instructions/fabric requirements are for making the quilt as shown, you could easily make a scrappy version of this quilt, as the sizes needed for each block are listed at the beginning of the…
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Quilting A Traveling Quilt
Read moreToday i’m sharing another quilt quilted with the Gingersnap pattern. It’s such a nice, versatile pattern on quilts. This is Heather O’Brian’s Instagram Traveling Quilt, made with contributions from several other gals in their group (she blogged about the top here). It was amazing to see in person, so bright and cheerful! My favorite kind of quilts to work on. Just walking into my studio and seeing something so colorful on my frame puts a big smile on my face. Heather helps me with all of my patterns, testing and proofing them, and I was so excited to quilt…
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Quilting Cheerios
Read moreA few months before I quilted Angela’s fox quilt, I quilted her Cheerio quilt. I loved all of her fabric choices, and while this was the first time i’d seen this quilt pattern, I thought the fabrics worked perfectly with it. It’s a Thimble Blossom pattern, and when I think of Angela’s style, I can’t help but think of Camille Roskelley, too. I gave Angela a few designs to choose from, that I thought would work well for the quilting of this quilt, and I was very happy when she picked my first choice. This quilting design is called Gingersnap and it…
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Quilting Foxes
Read moreI quilted this adorable fox quilt back in April for Angela. It is baby size, and was such a fast quilt, that I didn’t even get anything on Instagram of this one. Angela asked for woodgrain quilting, so I sketched out an idea and then free-motion quilted it on. She wanted woodgrain, but not too dense, so the quilt was still soft and snuggly. I think the quilting achieved just that. It was really hard to capture the quilting on the quilt itself, it blended in so well with the background fabric, that I sent along this sketch with Angela…
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Modern Maples + Modern Feathers
Read moreI was going through my photos of my longarm quilting today and realized there are a lot of quilts that I haven’t shared here yet. I’m not exaggerating when I say “a lot”. I am pretty good about sharing photos on Instagram as I’m working on a quilt, but it’s usually only a sneak peek, and I don’t always share every quilt I work on. I need to be better about that, though. This is my business and how does someone know if they want to hire me for longarm quilting if they can’t see a full range of my…
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Painted Basket Quilt
Read moreThis pattern can now be purchased here! A few weeks ago Art Gallery Fabrics emailed to see if I would be interested in creating something with Katarina Roccella’s new line, Imprint. I really like Katarina’s designs, but I’m sure you have noticed from my last few quilts, I tend to go for lighter colored fabrics that have very little in the way of saturated color, and Katarina’s fabrics never lack for beautifully saturated colors. I almost said no because of my desire to always create things that are light and bright, but then I had a peek at the lookbook…