My copies of the newest Quilting Arts arrived! I’m in really good company with Deborah Massie Boschert’s art on the cover: along with friends Lisa Chin, Lynn Krawczyk and Sue Bleiweiss! (I’ve never met any of these folks face to face, but have grown to know them through the years on Facebook) This is their “open studio” issue, with 8 artists showing their… Continue Reading
I have a series of 3 fabric dyeing articles coming out with Quilting Arts Magazine, and the first one can be found in the October/November 2017 issue. Here’s the really fun cover, featuring the latest reader challenge rooster art: This first article is all about dyeing tints of a single hue, I love how they… Continue Reading
Last July, I came up with a new (at least to me), fast way to mount small art quilts on the wall while working on my Mood Indigo show. I’m quickly facing them with the help of fusible hem tape and then mounting them with velcro on a piece of plywood that’s smaller than the… Continue Reading
I received my copies of Quilting Arts Holiday 2014 yesterday, look at these cute little coat ornaments on the cover: I’ve got 3 different patterns in it. As always, the stage them so well! I love the jewelled garland they used with my retro ornaments: These mugs look great on my snowflake coasters: And my… Continue Reading
I’ve been mentioning a couple of mystery projects for the last several months…and today I can reveal one of them! 18 of my patterns that have been published in different Quilting Arts Magazines over the years are all together in one handy E-book! It’s called “Create Handmade Gifts for All” and is available to purchase right… Continue Reading
Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed my Free Motion Machine Sketching DVD blog tour! (I believe we’ll have one more stop, Melody’s got a lot of balls to juggle right now). It’s quite an honor to have all these wonderful artists review my workshop for you, and I am deeply grateful for their time! I’ve really enjoyed sharing… Continue Reading
Next up on my Free Motion Machine Sketching DVD blog tour is Victoria Gertenbach of The Silly BooDilly!!! We met while taping Quilting Arts TV in the summer of 2010 and we’ve been friends every since! (This is her in the green room that day – she looked so great in one of the scarves I brought to… Continue Reading
Next on the blog tour for my new workshop DVD, Free Motion Machine Sketching, is Diane Rusin Doran who blogs at Ooh! Pretty Colors. I met Diane in the summer of 2011 in the green room of the studio where QATV is taped. I had taped 2 episodes of QATV and my first Quilting Arts Workshop Dyeing to Stitch the day… Continue Reading