Posts in this category talk about how quilts are designed.
Happy Town Quilt Pattern in progress
I'm in the studio this week, happily working on a happy quilt for market. This quilt makes me smile so hard. The blocks are inspired by the motif in the main print, as you can see below (main print on…
Well Being Quilt – new publication
New publication alert! This is my Well Being quilt... You can find it in the QuiltCon magazine put out by Interweave. There's an improv pattern for it, too! The magazine is on news stands or you can buy it online.…
Emily’s Nonsense
I’m so excited to be able to share my quilt “Emily’s Nonsense” with you today! This quilt is in the new Quilters Newsletter issue, "Tradition with a Twist Quilts," available wherever quilting magazines are sold. My initial inspiration was…
The Prill Quilt
When I first started quilting a little more than ten years ago, one of the main reasons I started doing it "my way" and not following patterns was that I had a strong aversion to triangles. And I don't mean…
Rainbow Quilt of Experimentation
This quilt was glimpsed on this blog six weeks ago when I wrote about my productive weekend retreat with the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild. Well, it's done now, so I thought I'd sit down and explain how it came to…
Shibori Itajime Quilt
My design wall got a huge dose of awesome slapped up there today! Fun, right? These will all be sewn together to make a quilt for my cousin Kelly, who got married in October On the big day, I gave the…
A Whole Lotta Log Cabins
Remember when this: became this? If not, check out that that old post: Glimma by Lotta Jansdotter Well, now I've got this: It's a generous twin-sized quilt at 68" x 95" It's always fun to finish a major stage in a…
Quilt 489
I submitted this quilt to Quilt Con this morning! It was Quilt 489. Of course, I think of this quilt not as "489" but as "The Full Stops Quilt" since it is based on a paper collage by Anna Betts…
Finding and Making Fabric for Stinky’s Quilt
To execute my plan for Stinky’s quilt (which you can read about in this post) I need quite a bit of fabric in six categories: 1. Dark teal 2. Medium teal 3. Light (mostly white) teal 4. Light (mostly white)…