When we were in Honolulu recently, we stopped off for a rainy-day tour of ‘Iolani Palace, the home of the last kings and queens of Hawai’i. We’d driven past it countless…
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quilts
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This one’s from the “warm” sample for the new Your First (Modern) Quilt series we’re doing. Maybe I’m having a little more fun than strictly necessary. Yummy bright colors for this…
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Last night, I taught an English Paper Piecing workshop, and was reminded how enamored I am of this technique. It’s very Zen and meditative and repetitive in the most soothing way,…
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I fully stand behind every word I wrote about using multitudes of fabrics from various collections when sewing, to really revel in the color and the chaos, but having said that,…
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When I first began designing children’s clothing years ago, I came at sewing as someone who has always made clothes. Which seems a little obvious now that I write it out,…
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My husband and I went out to eat recently with some Twitter and blog friends, one of whom is a noted ghost hunter. She mentioned wanting to visit her grandfather’s grave…
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The ladies of the Atlanta Modern Quilt Guild have been holding their monthly meetings at Whipstitch, and have been gracious enough to loan us some of their beautiful mini-quilts to hang…
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Here in the Steamy South, school goes back in August. I assume that’s because June is lovely and breezy and August is sweltering and intolerably hot, so why waste June in…
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I arrived at the shop on Monday to find a gift bag on the counter. I asked if it was a birthday gift for Diana, our intrepid shop manager, and she…
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This past month, enormous and devastating floods hit Nashville. The media didn’t give them a whole lot of attention, which made many of us think the effects were minimal. Nothing could…
