Weaving together my life as a maker and other spheres of life: Best of January, reading a very helpful relationship book, sharing a beginner’s quilting tutorial, celebrating a Circus Cabin quilt and looking forward to starting a new improv journey.
Read MoreToday before I sewed the last long seam of the quilt top, I paused and stood just staring at it. I came to realize that this quilt is one of my favorites that I have made in the last years. It’s very much my own inspiration, unrelated to other types of patchwork that I have seen, plus the palette is exactly me right now.
Read MoreEach month in Positivities BOM we will reflect together on a positive theme. With Kaleidoscope it is about being brave enough to look at your life and your choices with a fresh perspective. Perhaps through a book, the advice of a friend or by trusting your small quiet voice, you can experience a paradigm shift that suddenly reveals so many new possibilities.
Read MoreChoosing for color, choosing for beauty, choosing for me. My heart like bright pink confetti, feminine and strong.
Read MoreHow exciting, how exciting! Many of you have embarked on a intentional year-long journey in my Positivities block-of-the-month club. Our January block is Expansion. It’s been a small, but strong beginning with gorgeous and unique blocks popping up all over Instagram! Today I share a smattering of Expansion blocks that caught my eye in celebration!!
Read MoreThis week I really took my time with choosing the fabrics for my Inhibition quilt, especially the elements of the fan block. I will be using few fabrics, as I sense that repetition will be an important design element for this quilt. That makes each fabric choice weighty. What a contrast to relaxed scrappy sewing, where everything goes.
Read MoreI was feeling uneasy and stifled on January first when I sat down to sketch a new quilt. Art is a safe and peaceful way to free yourself; so, I could have sketched something wildly expressive. What actually came out on my paper was the very picture of inhibition - pretty, symmetrical, contained.
Read MoreYou know what I love? A sweet patchwork assignment to kick off a new year of charity sewing. Since 2010 I have been organizing an international quilting charity bee called do. Good Stitches. The idea is simple: use your creative patchwork energy to bless others.
Read MoreThe finished block is just half a sun. You might be tempted to make more and a whole sun too, which you can. That’s the thing about a sampler quilt such as Positivities: all of the block directions are there for you should you want to make a whole quilt full!
Read MoreWhat fun, what fun, to start the year off with a happy, patchwork pattern club! The January edition went out to club members yesterday. Yay! A few friends have test sewn Positivities blocks and helped me spread the news about the club. Check out what they came up with!
Read MoreWelcome to a fresh new year and to a fresh new Stitched in Color pattern club! It is such an honor that so many of you are sewing along. Exciting! After you registered for the club, you downloaded the Positivities Prelude document and probably started dreaming up ideas for your quilt. But are still feeling hesitant about how to approach this project?
Read MoreStitch by stitch, color on color, shape by shape by shape, a patchwork quilt comes into being slowly. This one, entirely sewn by hand, offered seemingly endless quiet moments for contemplation and rest. But four and a half years later, an end did come. A period was set. Now it is finished, my version of the famous Ice Cream Soda quilt in blues, aqua, teal and purple, cream and black and gray.
Read MoreIt’s time, friends! Welcome to the kick-off of our Positivities BOM! You can register today and immediately receive the Positivities Prelude - a welcome pack with introductory info and resources for planning your color and fabric choices. Yippee!
Read MoreHello and Happy New Year! I am away for a few days, welcoming the new year in a small Belgian city. Of course, I brought along a quilt (or two) to photograph, and today I am excited to share the first with you. Crossroads was a relaxing sew and at the same time a visually stimulating project. My favorite feature to the finished quilt are the smattering of white crosses.
Read MoreThe shape of our life is never set in stone. The things that you take for granted, good and bad, can evaporate like a mist. What I surely have observed in my years on this earth is that life can always, always surprise you. That doesn’t feel like a threat to me, rather more of a curiosity and a promise. Like a book that you want to keep reading, or better, like a story that you are making up as you go.
Read MoreAre you itching to start your Positivities quilt? If you’re like me, the color ideas are swirling around in your head in an exciting, if distracting cloud. Well, friends, get out those colored pencils and let’s pin those ideas to paper.
Read MoreWhat will you sew in 2024? A fresh new year is almost upon us, and with it comes a sense of renewal and so many possibilities. My wish for you? Let 2024 be a year in which you create joyfully with your hands, whatever form that takes for you.
Read MoreFloris says that my latest quilt top has a retro vibe, but I think of it as pure Anna Maria Horner. It’s about abundance - all the colors, all the patterns, all the energy and life. What could be better on a drizzly December day?
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