This is where you find me exploring a variety of creative adventures mostly about but not limited to quilting. I'm a firm believer that one increases their creativity by being open to and playing with a variety of cretative endeavors ... at least that my excuse for today. Enjoy your sourjourn through my studio playroom. May you find encouragement and inspiration, and on occassion, a little pin-prick that may be thought-provoking or spark your imagination. Thank you for stopping by.
Don't you just love it when faced with a quilt top that stops you in your tracks when trying to develop a quilting design plan? Any number of things can cause you to scratch your head in bewilderment. One of the most common roadblocks is an odd-shaped space. Strong ...
They're here! Way last Spring during International Quilt Market 2008 here in Portland I placed an order for a line of 1930's reproduction fabrics. I have quite a stash of 30's but can never resist adding to the stash. I know how hard I look to find ...
They say tha many hands make light work and that was never more true than last Thursday when the three of us got together to tackle the applique projects. What a fun day we had playing with a new-to-us applique method. Marje, Juanita, and I got together to work on ...
I love the feature called CONCATINATION included with our Creative Studio software on our Statler quilting machines. Concatinating is a design process allowing us to create unique edge-to-edge designs using several different but related quilting patterns. We can choose an order in which we would like the patterns to be ...
I never thought I would say this, but being without internet is worse than being without chocolate!
Finishing up with the work of the day for Friday, I logged off about 3:00 AM Saturday deciding to call it a night. I had spent the last few hours entering new ...
A week or so ago my good friend Jan Sims sent me pictures of a New York Beauty top she'd just finished and asked me if I could come up with some designs for her. And ... the Hearts Echoed Collection was born. Jan had plans for the triangles and ...
There is just no hope! In the process of cleaning the studio ... yes, there is a floor under that big machine ...
I've found lots of forgotten projects, and ideas,
I touched lots of fabrics - remember why I bought some and others have a big question mark after WHAT WAS ...
I can't remember on which blog I read about challenging the readers to celebrate the New Year by making up this cute Grab Bag pattern from All People Quilt, but I decided to accept the challenge. All-be-it a little late, I still had fun making the bag and I ...
Now how much fun is this going to be! I love the idea and think it is a great way to keep the spirit of Christmas going on throughout the New Year. I have signed on to participate in a "Pay It Forward" event. This means that the person to ...
