Check out these amazing tutorials showing how anyone can make improvisational patchwork.
My improv pattern for the houses quilt is now available! As you may recall from my earlier post, this quilt was made in collaboration with Birch Fabrics for their Spring 2015 Quilt Market Booth. It looked pretty amazing in the…
It's done! This beauty started a bit differently than most of my quilts. It started with a question raised by another quilt I had made, the Quartered Log Cabin Quilt (white version), pictured below. I love this block and teach it as…
I love autumn and Michigan is having a truly beautiful one this year! I’ve also been excited about shot cottons since I first laid eyes on them over five years ago. And I really enjoy mixing shot cottons with modern…
Hi all! What's up? I'm back after a FANTASTIC honeymoon, a super-fun time at Camp Stitchalot, and a week or so of trying to get my feet back on the ground and get to work. Thank goodness for deadlines or…
Last weekend I taught a new class for the first time: intermediate improv. In this class, I go over my favorite improv blocks as well as some general approaches to color and value, and methods for combining odd-sized improv…
I've got two quilts in the show at Quilt Con this week--Fulls Stops and The Conversation Quilt! I blogged about Full Stops fairly recently (you can read about it here and here), but the one on the right has only…
I had an idea for this bubbling in the back of my head whilst I was making my log cabin quilt and so I started in on it right after. It's a Painted Pebble Quilt and it was pretty quick…
As you may recall, I decided a couple of weeks ago to use the spooky batik fabrics I made to make a Halloween quilt. Well, the top is complete! I've already shown it to it's intended recipient, my boyfriend Jon. …
This tutorial explains how to make a 9” x 65” block for a Kelp Quilt If you make 11 of these blocks, you’ll have a twin size quilt (65" x 93"). [Directions for queen size variations at the bottom.] Anyone…