Category Archives: inspiration

Hello Sunshine

January 18, 2012 – 11:48 pm

One of the things we love about creating transparency quilts is the depth you see in the colors as well as the composition. Hello Sunshine appears to be a relatively straightforward baby quilt but in one place the overlapping colors make sense – a light over a darker fabric yields a shade in between. However, [...]

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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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Modern Quilts Illustrated: our new magazine!

October 25, 2011 – 3:49 pm

“We’ve gotta have a great show, with a million laughs… and color… and a lot of lights to make it sparkle. And songs – wonderful songs. And after we get the people in that hall, we’ve gotta start em in laughing right away. Oh, can’t you just see it… ?”— Judy Garland, “Babes In Arms”, [...]

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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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campers’ delight

August 5, 2011 – 5:06 pm

The lovely ladies at the Flying Needle Quilt Guild in Calgary hosted Bill for a workshop in May. At the end of the workshop they generously gave him camp towels with each of our names embroidered on them along with a maple leaf so we would remember our Canadian friends. We were so thrilled to [...]

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