Ready for your Week One assignment? I just finished up our first live video** in the Wise Craft Quilts FB Group for the Boro quilt and wanted to recap here (because some of us hate Facebook and I totally get that!).READ MORE
I polled the members of the Wise Craft Quilts Facebook Group recently, to find out what type of technique or project we should learn together next. The votes were overwhelmingly for recreating a quilt like “Boro” from my book, Wise Craft Quilts! READ MORE
Updated 11/3/18- Winner has been chosen over on Instagram, thanks to everyone who entered!
I’m very excited to share the new book by Karen Lewis out now. Wabi-Sabi Sewing: 20 Sewing Patterns for Perfectly Imperfect Projects. I’ve had the book for a few weeks now, and now that a few big projects are off my worktable, I get to dive in.READ MORE
Get them while they last! I added a few more Sashiko Starter kits to the shop. These were created for the Sashiko #wisecraftstitchalong I hosted last year, and there still seems to be a steady demand for them. READ MORE
A free quilt pattern for you today!
I created this pattern, called Upstage, to show off the beautiful florals in Bari J’s newest fabric line for Art Gallery Fabrics, Virtuosa.
More Halloween projects. Most of these are so easy, they don’t even need one. They’re so easy!READ MORE
Gosh, for someone who isn’t necessarily a fan of Halloween, I have sure made a bunch of DIY projects!
During my online workshop Dream, Learn, Quilt! I have offered a one hour Skype/Facetime call to early enrollees. I am very excited to begin offering online quilting consultations to everyone! Feedback have always been resoundingly positive. Talking an idea through can really help to move past pondering and into action.READ MORE
As I was stuck on the computer last week, getting the new site ready, I decided to make a new quilt collage for the Tufted quilt project that is in the current issue of Simply Moderne Magazine (Issue #14). READ MORE
The Found and Foraged Collection has been an idea in the making for a long time. My thought was to create a way to inspire me to keep producing original work. So often, when a creative passion turns into a business, the process can become overwhelmingly uninspiring. It can seem like too much computer work, not enough playing with fabric and thread. I don’t want that to happen. So why not challenge myself to create new pieces of art? New pieces that allow me to play with new creative ideas, concepts, and materials. It has been pure joy to work on these pieces.