Category Archives: inspiration

a few final thoughts on the Quilts Made Modern Blog Tour

July 31, 2011 – 12:02 am

First of all, many thanks for our hosts along the way. We’re grateful for your support and inspired by your kind words. Please feel free to call on us as we’d be delighted to return the favor. Bill and I were talking tonight about what we want readers to take away from our book beyond [...]

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you asked…

July 21, 2011 – 1:34 pm

I get questions. Lots of them. I thought I’d answer a few together in one post. So here we go… Q: How do you decide on quilting threads and quilting patterns? A: If we’re machine quilting, which is what we do 95% of the time, we ask ourselves the following questions: 1. What is the [...]

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allow me to gush: a review of Action Pack

June 16, 2011 – 7:53 pm

[disclaimer: The review below is for a digital magazine edited by Kathreen Ricketson, the founder of Whipup.net. Many years ago I was a contributor to Whipup.net. Kathreen provided me with a copy of this issue to review free of charge.] Long-time readers of this blog know that I had to wait a long time to [...]

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we’re in Modern Blocks!

June 5, 2011 – 10:11 pm

World’s greatest acquisitions editor Suzanne Woods from C&T has curated a collection of 99 modern blocks that will be published this October! We have five blocks in the book, which we’ll be discussing more as the publication dates draws closer. That blue one (the third from the top on the left) is one of ours [...]

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easter egg graffiti

April 24, 2011 – 12:17 am

In the category of “better late than never,” we dyed our Easter eggs this morning. Every year we try different techniques, some successful, some not. Today I had a contract to get out, some pansies screaming to be put in pots, lettuce and spinach seeds to sow (another entry in the “better late…” journal), two [...]

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