Category Archives: fabric

the calm of Whisper

January 15, 2012 – 7:27 pm

Readers of Quilts Made Modern may remember that I spent 8 months hand quilting a quilt called Small Change made entirely with Cherrywood fabrics. Cherrywood hand-dyed fabrics are more expensive than mass-manufactured prints, but have a softness that’s just not found anywhere else. While the design thinking behind Small Change was the interplay among rich [...]

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Welcome Little Bits Quilting Bee!

November 8, 2011 – 12:28 am

I have this interesting relationship with Kathreen Ricketson. She’s been kind of like a modern-day pen pal to me for the past six or seven years, even though we’ve never met. Kathreen, the founder of the popular craft blog Whipup.net lives in Australia. Before starting this blog I wrote for Whipup for about a year [...]

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Zen scrappy

October 12, 2011 – 3:29 pm

One of my favorite ways to think about fabric design and fabric combinations in a new way is to consider individual designers or a single print as a guest at a dinner party. To make things interesting I’ll think about designers whose styles are completely different. Then I think about what other “guests” you would [...]

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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!*

September 20, 2011 – 5:04 pm

[*Note: You had to have been alive during the '70s  or love watching TVLand to get this Brady Bunch reference. If you still don't get it, here's Urban Dictionary's explanation.] Marcia Derse is one of my favorite fabric designers. And despite the tongue-in-cheek title of this post I am delighted that she’s starting to get [...]

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End of Summer Studio Sale!

August 15, 2011 – 11:32 am

We’re having an End-of-Summer Studio Sale this Friday afternoon and Sunday for those in the Chicago area. Our studio is generally not open to the public but a few times a year we open it up for sales. If you don’t live nearby but would like to take advantage of the bargains, feel free to [...]

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