Here today with us is my little wall quilt, Rain. Rain's story is a somewhat sad one, especially shortly after the time it was made, but now, years later, I am pretty okay with it. I made this quilt as part of my efforts to try to start a book proposal back when that was the thing to do and a LOT of the current "big names" in the quilting industry were becoming big names. Including Angela Walters who quilted this for me. But due to failures...
It is my honor to be part of the Aurifil Designers of the Month for 2018 - such a talented group of people! If you haven't hear of this program, Pat Sloan has been organizing designers of all kinds for years to create a block or mini quilt or some other creative needle work for many years now for the Aurifil blog and the world! This year the theme is "The Places We Go." Each designer will be presenting a 12 1/2" (unfinished) block in Black/White/and A Color....
Happy New Year and welcome to today's interview with Dora from Orange Dot Quilts. I met Dora through my time on staff at Generation Q Magazine. She had entered some entries in my Block Builder Feature there and we published Boxing Play - the green and blue quilt behind Dora in the below picture. I don't think she was "Orange Dot Quilts" yet, but I think she started the company up soon thereafter if not before. Dora has an eye for design to be sure. I met Dora in...
Today I wanted to share five ways to stay creative when your daily journey takes you down the street on the Rainy side of Life. This holiday season was a hard one for me personally. It marked 2 years since my mom died (September really) and 21 years since my little brother committed suicide - that's actually coming up in a week. His birthday, November 24th was on the Friday after Thanksgiving this year, same as when he was born back 24 years before he left...
Mystique Fabric is a new line by Katia Hoffman for Windham Fabrics. Katia sent me some small squares of these beautifully wintery, jewel-tone prints this summer...