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Opening Tonight!
Opening tonight at the Island Quilter on Vashon 6-9. This is how I left the quilts the other night,I was tired and in great need of a good night sleep. Anja stayed up until 3am hanging the show and...
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The Show
The show at Island Quilter was a huge success! The opening was well attended and despite my last minute panic, the show was cohesive, hung well (thanks to Anja) and a lot of fun! For all of you who...
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Modern Maze
I love spiral quilting, I mean REALLY love it. Love to do it, love to draw it, love to look at it. Mixed with a maze, some pebbles and it may be my favorite quilting design. The following quilts are...
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Micro Mod
Happy Sunday and Welcome to my stop on the Micro Mod Sew Along!I had the pleasure of meeting Alexia at Quilt Con and was thrilled to find out she would be teaching a class from her book Liberty Love at...
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We have a winner!
Hi everyone! Leanne you won!!! I hope you love it! Thank you everyone for all of your comments and love on this purse. This purse is NOT that hard to make! Hell, I made it using Vinyl! The pattern is...
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Maze and Swirls
For some longarm quilters our tendency is to quilt the heck out of it. Yet often all that a quilt really needs is a flowing design to add texture and movement without overwhelming the quilt. This quilt...
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Mermaids, Unicorns and other mythical excuses for hoarding fabric.
If you are like me, you have been hanging onto mermaid and unicorn fabric and you know that the longer you have it the harder it becomes to use, the more difficult it becomes to find, thus the more it...
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Quilting Happiness~Finding my quilting style
What is your quilting style? How do you define your style? I have always loved collage and am very excited and inspired to be included in Christina Lane and Diane Gilleland's blog hop for the...
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Studio Spotlight
So glad you stopped by to visit! It is always fun to see where someone else creates, dreams, designs, sews and.....stores their fabric. I hope you enjoy my little studio tour, welcome to the Pacific...
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Hands on Longarm classes at Island Quilter on Vashon Island and a little eye...
Saying goodbye to summer is always hard for this California girl. With fall in the air, kids back in school and a new long arm machine in one of my favorite Quilt shops I may be able to happily face...
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The Miracle is this:
I LOVE Austin TX. I just returned from teaching at Quiltcon 2015 and I really don't think I can do a blog post without at least mentioning how much I LOVE the food in Austin. I'm not here to wax...
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Class to Quilt-Compositional Drawing
As it turns out I am not very motivated to clean my studio. I headed out there this weekend with all good intentions of getting my space clean and I honestly cleaned (or more accurately, contemplated...
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Process
Cleaning was inevitable. It had to happen.... I rarely custom quilt for customers anymore but I have a few ladies who have been with me from my beginning who I will always quilt for. This particular...
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Balance
Here is where I left off last week, with a few pretty good ideas about the direction I would go on this quilt. I did a few more sketches on the plexiglas before I felt ready to start quilting....
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Bound and Determined
I'm by no means a prolific quilt maker, a prolific quilter of other peoples quilts yes, but maker of my own...no. I am hoping that will change and I have taken some pretty good steps in that direction...
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The lure of the Medallion
There is something about the Medallion quilt that is irresistible. I am so very close to finishing my Marcelle Medallion from Alexia's book Liberty Love. If you are on Instagram the hashtag...
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Make it Take it Blog Tour (with giveaway!)
Happy Thursday! Welcome to my stop on the Make it Take it blog hop for Krista Hennebury's fabulous retreat book. I collaborated with Krista on a small table runner that could be made in a weekend,...
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Chotskies
I consider myself to be a pretty tidy person, unless you're including the pile of clothes on the floor in front of my closet. Which doesn't really count, because I don't want to talk about that, much...
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Voices
As the transition from Summer to Fall gets completely underway in our household I look forward to new adventures both with my kids growing up and new work ventures. With my kids back at school I have...
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Workshops YAY!
I have a few exciting teaching announcements and a ton of planning, prepping, stitching, retreating, drawing, and scheming ahead of me. I will make this post picture heavy and hopefully brief. I have...
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