It's always so exciting to find out what other talented people can do with my patterns, and here's how one of them turned the Sweet Talk Phone Bag into a little girl's purse. Sherri at Thread Riding Hood has used the Sweet Talk Phone Bag pattern to make purses for her little girls. She left …
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February is Going to the Dogs
One day seems pretty much like the rest after a dreary January slips into a colder, damper February. Working in my basement design studio means that I miss even those few rays of sunshine that might creep past the clouds. It's enough to put a gal into a total funk. That's why my husband and I were …
Meet the Daytripper Backpack Pattern!
After holding a week long contest to name my new backpack pattern, the time has come to officially announce my latest pattern, the Daytripper Backpack. Congratulations and thanks go out to Christina Beck, a teacher at Stitch by Stitch in Kingston, Ontario. She entered the name Daytripper …
Pattern Cover for the New Backpack Design
As you learned from my last blog about pulling together a new backpack design, writing a pattern is a very, very long process – at least when I do it. But writing the pattern does not end with the last period. Every pattern needs a cover Fabric Picking out fabrics to make sample bags is the first …
It’s a Backpack Pattern! A New Bag Design Comes Together
Every so often I get a hankering to create a new bag pattern, and the first question is, of course, what kind of design do I want to do? What about a backpack pattern? Being hands free is important when trekking about in town, doing a little flea marketeering, or visiting the local farmer's …
A Visit to Midland
Recently I had the opportunity to visit the ladies of the Midland Quilters Guild to present my lecture Developing the Designer in You. There’s guaranteed to be something for everyone when I show over 60 quilted pieces including numerous quilts, bags, runners etc. at my hour long presentation. I …