Remember the days when I use to blog daily…yeah, me either. It’s been so long since I’ve done any regular blogging and every year I tell myself this is the year I get back on track. It just never seems to happen. Social media has taken a backseat to actual life more and more every year. I had a Facebook for years and I officially got rid of it two years ago. Best decision I ever made. I still like…
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Quilt Binding Tutorials
Read moreOn this page you’ll find links to all of my binding tutorials, from piecing your binding, to stitching it on the front of the quilt by machine and hand stitching the binding to the back of the quilt by hand. There are even a few tutorials for getting those perfectly mitered corners and showing an updated method for finishing your binding with a Fons & Porter Binding Tool. Part 1: Making your binding Part 2: Attaching your binding to the…
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Quilting Sea Glass
Read moreGood afternoon! It’s sunny and bright here in the Pacific Northwest today and i’m feeling so productive, so I thought while I had a quilt going in the background i’d take a moment to pop in and show you some photos of Amy Friend’s Sea Glass Quilt I quilted for her last winter. Its one of many quilts in her new book Improv Paper Piecing.
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Kite Flight Quilt + Quilting Video
Read moreI just recently quilted this beautiful Kite Flight quilt by Heather Wall (@heathersnacks). If i’m remembering correctly, Heather is a new-ish quilter, and she did a really wonderful job on this. The seams weren’t too bulky, everything laid flat and lined up well and was relatively square, which I noticed would be rather hard to achieve with all the bias seams that end up in this block. She was going back and forth between two patterns and ultimately let me…
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Custom Half Square Triangles
Read moreI’m a little behind on sharing quilts – but when am I not behind when it comes to blogging. I didn’t want to let anymore time pass without sharing Meredith Hobb’s gorgeous quilt. She designed this and asked me to do some custom quilting on it, which I was more than excited to do.
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Cactus Garden Quilt Pattern
Read moreI just released my latest quilt pattern last night: Cactus Garden. All those little crown points reminded me of succulents and cactus spikes, and bringing them all together seemed like a garden of cacti. I actually had this about 3/4 of the way done and then set it aside and forgot about it. So here it is, two years later and I finally finished it up. I still love the colors and design as much as when I started it.
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Quilting a January Quilt
Read moreI quilted this quilt back in December for Melissa Everett. (It’s the January Quilt pattern by Lady Havertine.) This past week she entered this in the Smoky Mountain Quilter’s Quilt Show (with a couple other beauties) and it won Honorable Mention in ‘Large 2 Person Team’ and also won the ‘Modern Quilt Award’. I think it’s well deserved for all of those pieced curves!
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Star Bright Star White Quilting
Read moreI often forget about quilts I’ve quilted that are meant for publication. From the time I see it until it’s out there for the world to see is usually at least a year, and often longer. As is the case with this beautiful quilt. Rebecca Bryan of Bryan House Quilts contacted me last year to see if I could quilt this for her. It is in the most recent issue of American Patchwork & Quilting that just hit shelves last…
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HST Tote Bag Pattern
Read moreOver the winter I taught several sessions of my tote bag class. It was such a hit that I decided i’d make the pattern available for purchase. I really love this bag and have made it so many times over the years. It goes together quickly and effortlessly. I use mine for shopping and holding knitting projects and the size has always been just perfect for anything I need to go in there. One of things I love most about…