Does the quilt pattern called Yellow Brick Road sound familiar to you? If it does, that's because it's been one of the best selling patterns in recent quilting history. The author, Terry Atkinson, has a goal to create first time patterns for quilters, to change them from quilt lovers into quilt …
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Jibacoa, Cuba and Strathroy, Ontario: Differences and Similarities
My grandmother used to have a saying in German that went something like this - when somebody goes travelling they'll have lots to talk about. Different places are generally, well, different. But have you ever thought about how similar they are? Let's explore the similarities between my hometown …
Sweet Talk Phone Bag Pattern Makes Cute Girl’s Purse
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 …
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 …