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.
Playing with the clam shell design and a small wall-hanging, this is the stitch-out inspired by Symphony Hall in Boston.
And look at these fun buttons I found to use as embellishment. At first I was thinking to use a variety of interesting metal buttons, and then I discovered the ...
When I was 10 my most favorite possession was my library card. I loved our trips to the local library every two weeks. Such a tiny hole-in-the-wall kind of place with tightly packed shelves pressing in from all sides in a cozy kind of way. The air was filled with ...
There is a fine line in maintaining a balance in life whether we're talking personal, emotional, or career and our creative endeavors. Many times I find that I can get so caught up in the finished product I can easily loose sight of the process. How easy it is ...
Our March Design Challenge is almost finished ... just a few more days to take advantage of the $1 pattern special on 1402 Hearts A Flutter Block 2. Remember me telling you how easily it could be divided for additional design play in Creative Studio? All you have to do is ...
I must confess, I have a love-affair with mugs and tea cups. Celebrating the seasons with special mugs is one of my ways to treat myself. I saw this mug at Anthropologie last year but didn't get it because it didn't feel right in my hand. I put ...
Thoughts from my weekly photo walk.
I am beginning to have several different visual journals organized around different concepts, techniques, and sometimes just STUFF. One of those visual journals is called BY THE NUMBERS. The idea is to find things in nature or life that happen naturally in a given ...
HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!
I've been having a wonderful break from all the construction by hanging out with Eryn in Alabama during her Spring Break. Lots of movies, a little shopping, working on projects, eating REAL food and cooking on a REAL stove, and wonderful time for chattering ...
With the journaling on the page you can kind of get an idea of where I might be going with this project. I like brainstorming the possibilities. The exploration helps me narrow the focus of the project. But sometimes even the brainstorm is a little slow to get started.
I ...
Patterns used:
1402 HEARTS A FLUTTER BLOCK 2
1403 HEARTS A FLUTTER BLOCK 3
1374 TOUCHING BEADS SINGLE
1380 JOURNEY BLOCK 2
Creative Studio skills used:
In Repeat Mode ... concatinating, rubber stamp, circular array, rotation, and resizing.
And the bonus for today: a freebie - 1374 SINGLE TOUCHING BEAD is a ...
There were two of the best things about having the girls over to my house for our Tuesday Open Sew Sessions.
1. It made me have to clean and decorate my house. Why is it that we might tend to let these two important duties slide just a little when ...
Three new edge-to-edge patterns due to customer request and what fun patterns they are.
When Becky and I were visiting at the recent retreat at Simpsonwood in Georgia, she mentioned a quilt she is making for her son. She has been looking for a very specific edge-to-edge pattern ... he drives ...
Time for an update on the progress we're making with the kitchen. It feels like home more and more each day. It's true what they say about the kitchen being the heart of the home. Not only was the house physically warmer when all the holes to the ...
The inspiration: the view from a visit on-stage at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. I took these photos during a visit to Boston during 2008 and ran across them recently during an unpacking/organizing session after our recent move. (Will I ever have all of those boxes unpacked with contents ...
How are you coming with the design challenge? It's still not too late to pick up the special pricing on the challenge unit 1402 Hearts A Flutter Block 2.
For my QLO (quilt layout) this week, I used the block unit in a classic design pattern I like to ...
As I was thinking about which recipe to share this week I realized, we are a "no-dessert" house. Oh my goodness, we do desserts when we eat out but it is a rare occassion for me to fix a dessert dish. Desserts need to be gluten free so I don ...
It's DESIGN CHALLENGE TIME ... are you a designing diva?
Time to dust off the mouse, open up Creative Studio and start playing. I've designed a new block that is easily divided so you can create and re-create until your "hearts-a-fluttering."
The challenge unit ... 1402 HEARTS A FLUTTER BLOCK ...
NEW patterns up!
NEW catalog pages up! Be sure to go in and download the whole set for your files and customer browsing. All the pages have been updates as well as new patterns added.
I'll be continuing to add new patterns regularly over the next month and will ...
