The world is bursting with inspiration and you are full of fantastic palettes just waiting to happen. Let’s practice finding and following inspiration via Experiment 12 in my book.
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A snapshot of community contributions for Neutrals + Story via Quilter’s Color Quest. Plus, Spice up Your Stash with my custom curated fabric bundles, available at Fenceline Fabrics.
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This weekend I got really excited about my Seafarers quilt. I love it so much, I think I’m going to have to offer it as a stand-along pattern! Let’s catch up on that progress.
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Today is new issue day for Make Modern, a beautiful magazine written by quilters for quilters and delivered digitally to creatives across the world. Patterns, interviews + ideas for the modern quilter.
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This morning over breakfast, my 15-year-old Aria chirped, “It’s 170 days until Christmas!” I kid you not. This child LOVES Christmas. Listens to Christmas music all year long. Has probably already started knitting a gift for at least one person.
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New Ice Cream Soda blocks, plus a good look at my English Paper Piecing project bag. Here’s the process and tools that work best for me. I love a take-along project for summer!
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A Picnic at the Park, anyone? Story gives you something with so much depth and texture to inspire your color and pattern choices. If you haven’t used story before, now is the time to give it a try!
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Sampler quilts are so interesting to sew, kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure book. It’s hard to see at the beginning where it is all headed, but with a little luck, by the end of the journey, the cumulative effect is quite exciting!
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Weaving together my life as a maker and other spheres of life: Best of June, news about Elora’s speech delay and an invitation to listen well.
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Hasn’t June just flown by? I’ve had the pleasure of quilting for creative folks who live as close as a ten minute bike ride and as far as southern France. I’ll show you a few of those lovely quilts here.
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Do you know what I love? Using patchwork to recover dining room chairs. It’s makes them so fresh and full of personality, and is rather easy to do. Here are the steps to make it happen!
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This quilt design is not mine; it’s a pattern called Concert from the book Quilt Modern Curves & Bold Stripes. Comfort Circle quilt bee did a fantastic job sewing this intermediate quilt block. Look how well those stripes match up!
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Have you ever tried to replicate a color scheme, say from another quilt, painting, etc? Sometimes you get the colors right, but the collective effect doesn’t satisfy. Pay attention to the artist’s use of neutrals!
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Say “hello” to Tulip Crown! Of course my Dutch-inspired Penny Sampler needed some tulips and why not a quartet? Here I’ve made the block four times over for the Seafarers quilt, an extra quilt pattern included with Penny Sampler Pattern Club.
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A snapshot of community contributions for Value + Context via Quilter’s Color Quest. Plus, Balance Your Stash with my custom curated neutral fabric bundles, available at Winter Creek Cloth.
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If you find yourself losing steam after your patchwork quilt top is made, you’re not alone. But wait! Finishing that quilt is going to be soooo rewarding. Here are some ideas to help you push on to make that quilt backing.
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All the Concert quilt blocks have arrived from my bee mates in Comfort Circle of do. Good Stitches, plus I’ve made more to round out the collection. Now it’s time to join these blocks to create the quilt top.
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Even building fabric neighborhoods takes time. I paper pieced fifteen houses total in May. Phew! Good thing my work is also my play. Now they’re done and so is the Seafarers quilt pattern! Hooray!
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