I’m honored that Danielle Palli, host of Birdland Media Works, featured me on her podcast series, The Artist Within. In this interview, I share tips for unlocking your own creativity as well as my lessons learned for getting a quilt pattern design business up and running. I had a lot of fun tlaking with Danielle […]
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Here’s the second in this series of Patriotic Modern Quilt Pattern Update posts from my latest book. You can use ANY fabrics to make these patterns–you are definitely not limited to red, white and blue. Let’s explore two patterns in this post. This time, I’m showing alternatives for TWO of the patterns. Strips & Stars
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I am very proud to announce that I will be teaching modern quilting workshops at the American Quilter’s Society QuiltWeek in Daytona Beach, FL from February 27–March 2, 2019. Signups will be up this fall. And, be sure to check out the contests for their shows–they welcome modern quilts. By the way, visit my Teaching
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Hello everyone, My explorations as an Island Batik Ambassador continues and wow, I had fun this month! The Island Batik challenge for June was to make a modern batik quilt. Of course, this was music to my ears! I decided to make a modern batik quilt using the Parisian Curves technique from my book, Madly
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Modern quilt design principles are fairly new as an organized approach to quilting. So, it’s not surprising that many quilters are still somewhat confused. Let’s start with the basic question I hear over and over from quilters as they show their quilts: Is this a modern quilt? I don’t think this quilt is modern….. This
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Modern traditionalism is one of the key principles in modern quilt design and it is one of my favorite jumping off points as well. So I was very happy to see that the Island Batik Ambassador Challenge for April 2018 is to use a traditional quilt block or design as inspiration. I chose the traditional
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This month, I decided to enter the Curated Triangle Mini Quilt Challenge. I decided to give myself some restrictions to further spur my approach to improvising one or more triangle mini quilts. My restrictions were: No curves! Straight lines only. Improvising design and quilting Machine quilting only (no hand quilting) Stash fabrics and leftover batting
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I decided that I would provide my readers with links to the Blogs of the 2018 Island Batik Ambassadors in one place and links to each of my projects. Scroll down this post to see the list of blogs by my creative Fellow Ambassadors. You will see many wonderful examples of what they are working
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I decided to do some research so that I am learning about batik fabric–its history and how these fabrics are made today. I’m sharing a few links that I thought might be useful to my readers as I start my journey as an Ambassador. [divider] Island Batik Company First, here is some background about Island
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Looking thru my blog draft posts, I realized that I never posted another piece of my Alison Glass Mini Quilt Swap story. So here it is…. I was in an Instagram Alison Glass Swap. My Swap Mama asked me to be an Angel and make a mini for one of the team because their original
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