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 …
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Plan for Winter and Sewing Projects
I started on a major project in the Spring of this year, and after a busy summer and September full of event appearances, presentations, and sewing classes, it feels like winter might be on the way. Changing Seasons, New Activities **Updated: Project news at the bottom of this post** With my …
Woolly, Woolly: A Bag Pattern for Knit and Crochet Hobbyists
The idea for the Woolly, Woolly pattern was inspired by a combination of childhood memories and the needs of a student I had a few years ago. As a young girl, every so often the task fell to me to untangle my Mom’s box of wool and embroidery threads. Mom, being pretty busy with 5 rambunctious …
Urban Computer Satchel Made By Fabric Artist Shelly Stokes
Shelly Stokes from Cedar Canyon Textiles is a talented fabric artist, and she put her talent and skills to good use when she made a stunning bag using the Urban Computer Satchel pattern. Find out more about some changes Shelly made to the pattern, plus the process she used to customize the …
The Skunk Tale Continues
The Rest of the Story I've heard from a lot of you who want to find out what happened to the baby skunks I rescued last month from the window well outside my pattern design studio. Here's the rest of the story. When I wrote the last post, it had been five days since I had moved the baby skunks …
The Scrappy Sampler: A Retired Quilt Pattern Gets New Life
This is the story about how I designed my first quilt pattern, the Scrappy Sampler, and how many years and many pattern designs later, it was taken out of retirement and reborn. How my career in quilt and bag design began In the early 1990’s my friend Brenda Dolbear invited me to join a quilting …