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On Wednesday,  I had the pleasure of antique quilt hunting at the Famous Brimfield Antiques Market with my friend, Diana Annis! With Diana by my side, we had a fabulous […] Read More

Have you ever washed a quilt in the bathtub? That is how I was taught to wash an antique quilt, but it is a little difficult to handle a heavy, […] Read More

Applique is now easier than piecing, even for beginners.    If you find that statement hard to believe, you are not doing applique MY WAY!  Now, wait a minute.  Before […] Read More

When I am out speaking to quilt guilds, I always ask, “WHO LOVES TO MAKE APPLIQUE QUILTS?”  A few uncertain hands raise slowly, sometimes wavering or giving me the metza/metza […] Read More

New England’s Textile Heritage, and what that has to do with ClamBoils! What do Portuguese cooking and quilting have in common? I was raised in Rhode Island, on Narragansett Bay.  […] Read More

I just love watching the frogs in my green slimy frog pond in the middle of my backyard garden! The pond is filled with little black tadpoles this year. It […] Read More

The Kaffe Design walls that I made for my sewing room are perfect for me to use when teaching or taking Zoom workshops! I use one wall to pin up […] Read More

I am so fortunate to still have both of my parents living in Texas!  Now that we are all vaccinated, it was time to go visit “the folks”.  My siblings […] Read More

When designing an applique quilt or reproducing an applique pattern it is very helpful to tack the blocks and borders up to a wall. Sit back and ponder your applique […] Read More

When I first started making applique quilts, I did everything by hand. Over the years, I have tried many methods of hand and fusible applique. While I love hand applique, […] Read More

The primary reason I use EQ to design my applique quilts is that I can quickly recolor any quilt by swapping out colors with the When coloring an applique quilt […] Read More

When you want to resize an applique block in Electric Quilt, there is an easy way to do it…if you know the secret!  Once you have an applique block drawn […] Read More

This quilt was designed in an applique block design workshop with my guild. I drew each block in EQ by taking a photo of each block, importing the photo into […] Read More

Designing Applique blocks and borders in EQ   When you tackle a quilt like this  spring flowers quilt, the first step is to design the basic quilt structure in Electric Quilt.  […] Read More

Let go of perfection to achieve perfection! This is the advice I have been giving the members of “Ahead of the Curve” this week. They are learning to free-motion quilt […] Read More

Many of us have had the experience of “Nesting” while expecting a child. Nesting is the female’s natural instinct to clean, organize and prepare the “Nest” for Baby’s arrival.  Lord […] Read More

DO YOU EVER GET THE SEWING ROOM BLUES?  If you have a magazine-ready sewing room, count your blessings! If you suffer from the “Small Sewing Room Blues”, I feel your […] Read More

I have joined the 2021 Instagram QuiltFest! For the rest of March, I’m going to post one photo a day that relates to a list of writing prompts. I love […] Read More

Fusible applique is the method I use for MOST of my applique quilts.   There are times when fusible applique may not be the best method FOR YOU.   Nine years ago, […] Read More