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  • Bees!

    This super-sneak preview is of Ryan’s quilt for the Bee bee–I’ve just added my row and shipped it off to Amber so she can add hers for March.  We all began…

  • Glue Batik Wall Hanging: Sewing with Kids

    So, two things: first, I can’t find my back-up camera charger.  I bought it to replace my actual camera charger, which I had misplaced.  Eventually, the original charger showed back up,…

  • Star Quilt for 2012

    This past weekend was the first meeting of our Your Second (Modern) Quilt class for 2012.  Most of these ladies took the Your First (Modern) Quilt class last year (either in…

  • Quiltr

    Have you found Quiltr yet?  Fantastic little time waster.  Import images of your own fabrics to create quilts digitally–either for enjoyment or to audition fabrics for your future projects. The whole…

  • WIP: Man Woobie

    Thrifted: five men’s dress shirts in various muted shades. Assembled: a quick quilt top, from 11″ squares cut from the larger sections of the shirts. Quilted: with grey perle cotton. In…

  • Heather Ross Sewing Retreat in Palm Springs

    A weekend at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs with Heather Ross, Anna Maria Horner, Denyse Schmidt, Gretchen Hirsch, and twenty other amazing ladies.  All on sewing machines.  It was heavenly.…

  • Palm Springs

    I am here for the weekend. Two words: Tony Danza.…

  • Tony Danza at the Victoria & Albert Museum

    I have mentioned before my Tony Danza wall quilt.  It has been a work-in-progress for a little over two years now.  And by “work-in-progress,” obviously I mean I haven’t really started…

  • LIVE Quilting Event on Saturday!

    This Saturday, from 12-4, a sewing event that you’ll love: LIVE quilting!  We’re bringing three quilters into the shop for the afternoon, each of them working on quilting a project from…

  • The Hardest Sewing I Have Ever Had To Do

    This is the block the Trust Circle of do.Good Stitches made for October.  It’s the Greek Cross design, using the tutorial over at Fresh Lemons.  And it was so, so hard…

  • September do.Good Stitches Quilt

    September was my month to be the quilter for the Trust Circle of do.Good Stitches, and this here’s the finished product.  I think it turned out rather well! I asked for…

  • Space Still Open in Modern Quilt E-Course!

    There are still spots left in the Modern Quilt online class starting next Monday!  Read the full description here.  The e-course is primarily video instruction, along with photos, downloads, and some…