I have been meaning to make this video for a long time. What prompted me to finally finish it was seeing two instances, in the past week, where quilters were holding their rotary cutters in a way that actually makes it harder to cut, and watching one quilter cut toward herself – which made my [...] Read more »
A New Quilt Design
Hi Quilters, we found some quilt inspiration on YouTube! This quilt was inspired by a video that I watched on YouTube and that I talked my daughter Sarah into making. She loved it so much that she made about five different tops! Check back here regularly because I’ll be playing with new designs on the [...] Read more »
Three Awesome Pinwheel Block Tutorials
I recently met (online, via her blog) Sandi of Piecemeal Quilts. She and her friend Jeanne have challenged each other to post some really useful tutorials on basic blocks in quilt making. They are starting with a Pinwheel Block and I have to say, it’s one of the best tutes I’ve seen on the internet. [...] Read more »
Sew & Quilt in Comfort
Introducing my newest book – a work of love! You may have read some of my posts, or seen the photos, of my “Custom Sewing Table”, which I’ve also called my “Cheap Sewing Table”, well, now it’s a book. The short backstory is that when our book proposal (Crazy Shortcut Quilts) was accepted in 2006, [...] Read more »
One of These Things Doesn’t Belong Here….
I love Sesame Street! My youngest sister, Nicole, used to watch it when it first came out and my daughter Sarah watched it 27 years ago and now my granddaughter Audrey watches it. Hurray for PBS! They used to have this song, about one of these things not belonging….I can’t get it out of my [...] Read more »
More Quilts from Michelle and Crazy Postcard Tute
Michelle sent me pics of her newest baby quilt and she even made a Quilted Birthday Postcard after following Katrina’s Tutorial on how she made hers from her Crazy Shortcut quilt scraps! I think Michelle has made about 4 or 5 of these “Shortcake” Quilts – she’s awesome! Read more »
My Design Wall
***UPDATE*** I have been getting a LOT of requests for specific information on the design wall fabric that I buy. Here’s the label from the bolt of my most recent purchase: I started digging through some unfinished projects recently and put some on my design wall, then I thought I’d make a video about the [...] Read more »
A Whole Lotta Crazy Shortcut Quilts!
Ok, I had some setbacks and I didn’t finish a quilt, but I have a list of quilters who did!! Hurray for them! Judy of KS sent this one, Derek’s Quilt made with Teenage Ninja Turtle Fabric! Amanda made these two as Christmas presents: Sara from Abu Dhabi made a RolyPoly and Marie Bartels [...] Read more »
5 Minute 5 Dollar Organizer
My pal Judy Wedemeyer gets credit for this one and she’s going to post about it on her blog too We were chatting about making quilted Art Cards and she wanted to show me some of the decorative bits she’d collected that she used to both make the cards and to give her inspiration. Colored [...] Read more »
My Design Wall Trinkets
I watched a video that made me start thinking about all the things that I keep up on my walls in my quilting area. As a response to the video I watched, I made this video which thanks the original artist, Margaret Fabrizio, and shows some of my cherished bits and tells their story. The [...] Read more »
