For the Love of Color: Ochre
My local quilt shop was having a big sale on fabric this last week, so I ended up buying a bunch of solids, including one I wasn’t expecting: Kona Ochre. Ochre is such an unfortunate name (maybe...
View ArticleQuilt Design A Day
More designs! The Quilt Design A Day (QDAD) challenge is to take 15-30 minutes a day and work on a quilt design. We have a Facebook group that’s open to whomever wants to join in or hang out. No rules,...
View ArticleQuilt Design A Day
So I’m gonna come clean, I’ve been sneakily skipping a pattern here and there for the last month or so. I entered a bunch of designs into the QuiltCon Design Challenge and they couldn’t be published,...
View ArticleQuilt Design A Day Giveaway!
It’s the time for another exciting round of Quilt Design A Day! It’s my 6-month-design-a-day-iversary today, so I thought we could celebrate by doing a giveaway! (Also, that totally rhymed.) Details at...
View ArticleDesigning with Color: Marsala
Today is the last day to enter the Pantone Quilt Challenge! If you were waiting for the last minute, it has arrived! The link up ends at 11pm pacific tonight and then we’ll move on to voting! I had...
View ArticleSolid Fabrics
I have a week of exciting posts to share coming up. And I’m starting with color graphs. Maybe I have a weird definition of exciting… Kona Cotton – color distribution I’ve been doing a lot of work with...
View ArticleFizzy Block
I’m behind on sharing things, so I’m going to try to do a little catch up over the next couple weeks! My “uhh crap I only brought a few things with me and our stuff hasn’t arrived yet so I guess this...
View ArticleRock Candy Block
Cloud 9 Fabrics has a new set of yarn-dyed colors that they’ve released called Cirrus Solids. I’m kind of a huge sucker for cross weaves and shot cottons so when they announced they were doing a block...
View ArticleFinish: The Phoenix Quilt
Today is a really exciting day because I can finally share the Phoenix quilt with you!! I’ve been practically tap dancing with impatience since finishing this a few weeks ago. This quilt is based on a...
View ArticleSketchbook Dump
So a couple weeks ago I mentioned that I won a bundle of Cirrus Solids by Cloud 9 and that I was having trouble cutting into it. I asked for some advice and got some much needed tough love to get me...
View ArticleQuilt Design
I’ve made it to the other side of the Season of Deadlines which has basically been a slog of every free moment being spoken for. This last weekend was the first time I didn’t have something that I was...
View ArticleFinish: Finding Home
I’m alive! I don’t know how often I’ll realistically be able to post to the blog, but I have a few finishes to share that I hope to at least get posted. It turns out starting a new career is exhausting...
View ArticleLife Update 2018 edition
Hi everyone! How’s it going? It’s been *cough* a while *cough* since I’ve posted, and I’m in no way promising that I will be updating regularly, because I know better. If you want more regular peeks...
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