The Original Plan When last I wrote about this Log Cabin Quilt, I was planning a quilt of mostly solids with a cheerful 1950s palette (see that post here).  Well, when I got to making I found that I needed to change course…this quilt went from putting abstract design idea first, to putting feelings and meditations first.…

Last summer I was contacted by a woman named Lori who was looking for someone to make a quilt for her daughter. The quilt was to be a Christmas present and Lori wanted it to feature photos from her daughter’s wedding. This project didn’t immediately strike me as one that would fit my style–and I…

If you follow along with me on Instagram (i’m rossiecrafts), you’ll notice that I love stacking up fabric combinations. This is just something that happens when I’m in my studio…fabrics find their way into pretty combinations, and I take out a camera to record them. This fabric play is something I enjoy immensely and would do…

At Quilt Market Sample Spree, I was lucky to get a chance to buy three upcoming lines: Heather Ross’s Tiger Lily,  Kim Kight’s  Lucky Strikes, and Lotta Jansdotter’s Lucky.  Once back to my room that night, I opened up the bundles and played with the fabrics, noticing that parts of each line played very nicely together. Back…

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.  I actually saw it at a local bookstore (Nicola’s) and was tempted to nerd out…

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 this quilt by the super-talented Sarah Stasiuk. (Shared here with her permission.)  Isn’t it stunning?…

Members of the Modern Quilt Guild should have a special treat in their email today…my new pattern! (UPDATE:  this pattern is now available to non-members in the Rossie Crafts pattern store on etsy) If you’re not a member of the MQG, you can join up as an individual ($25/year) via their website (here) or find a…

I’ve written up my instructions for making an Ocean Waves quilt! You can get it for free via Craftsy:  http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/quilting/home-decor/ocean-waves/89682 I decided to post the pattern to Craftsy there because one of my goals in 2014 is to start selling patterns and so familiarizing myself with the interface and getting a little traffic going into…

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 be.  This quilt was largely the result of my fascination with Andover’s Textured Solids.  I’m…

Don’t worry about the title of this post yet, it’s basically gibberish. This is a post about this little quilt I made: Ta da! Okay, you know I’d rather show a quilt in progress than spring it on you when it’s all done, but I have good reason for keeping this one secret.  You see,…

You’ll have to forgive me if I end up being short on words here… I sometimes find it tricky to say much about a project if I’m blogging about it a while after I’ve completed it. Why the delay?  I whipped up these pillows in November, prior to a sale put on by members of The…

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 made one brief appearances when it was in progress. It’s “The Conversation Quilt” and I…

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 to make. This quilt is based on this lovely painting by Garima Dhawan of Garima…