Did you know that Gloria Vanderbilt’s homes throughout the years had rather bold decorating statements? As in, they were covered with quilts?
I went down a rather deep rabbit hole the other day, looking at the way she adorned walls, fireplaces, tables, chairs, bedrooms, and floors with quilts.READ MORE
Welcome to Week Three of our Boro Quilt #wisecraftstitchalong. If you want to start at the beginning of the stitchalong, read all the details here.
During the Summer, I pulled out some of the brightest fabrics in my stash and began to remake the quilt on the cover of my book. In an attempt to move past the creative rut I was in.
I polled folks 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
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.
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
Back in February, right when I got back home from Quiltcon, I hosted Carol Veillon, editor of Simply Moderne Magazine at my studio. It was such a treat to have her to my studio. Truth be told, I usually am forced to do a deep clean of my space when visitors are due to arrive, the studio got a very nice, much needed tidy up two days prior to her visit (always a good thing!).
I love the Cyanotype quilt.
That blue.
I knew there would be some version of cyanotype in Wise Craft Quilts.
Every quilt I make right now is scrappy. I just love scrappy. It can work through a large fabric stash really effectively. Quilts made with simple color palettes with just a few colors, or all solids, for example, can completely transform when made using a scrappy sort of “recipe”.READ MORE