I am back from Quilt Market, which is always a whirlwind. And this year, it’s just a few days before Halloween, which means I walked into a walking timebomb of costuming…
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I’m heading to Houston today for Quilt Market, where I’ll be doing a presentation to shop owners and national retailers about my brand new book, which is set to arrive in…
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Well, we’re making progress on Tony Danza, but it is slooooooow. And I’m a little worried about his eyes. The biggest issue is that postage stamp quilts, by their nature, are…
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We’re getting ready to transition our son from his toddler bed to a big boy bed, and our youngest from her crib to the toddler bed. Well, OK, “getting ready” might…
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Brace yourselves, everyone. If you’ve been hanging with me on the Twitters, you already know what I’m about to say: we are RE-OPENING the Whipstitch Etsy shop for just one week!…
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We never did get around to putting in a garden this year. When we moved into our house, the backyard was a disaster, random baby trees dotted everywhere and no actual…
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I’m finishing up the blocks for my Your (Second) Modern Quilt class–Y2MQ for short–and thought today I’d put together the quilt top. Naturally, that’s when I realized I had run out…
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I know, I feel the same way a lot of you do: it’s ghastly and rude to even mention Christmas when we haven’t had so much as Halloween yet. I have…
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I leave tomorrow to fly out to Salt Lake City for Sewing Summit, where I’ll be teaching a class on POCKETS. Oh, yes. So I’m pulling together all the samples and…
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This week, I’m serving as guest judge over at Project Run & Play. If you haven’t been following along, Project Run & Play is an elimination competition whose contestants design children’s…
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The second Sewing Buddy Challenge for 2012 was COLOR: both Buddies take the concept of color and interpret that by making partner projects to reflect the theme. The winning entry went…
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On the subject of tidying, I moved a whole mess of fabric up from where it was being “temporarily” stored in the basement. Um, it was kind of like this: we…
