Category Archives: sewing

making your own Madras

January 11, 2012 – 6:58 pm

Madras is one of the best examples of how careful fabric selection can create a very compelling transparency. You have to look carefully because although the two shades of blue are easy to see, it’s the light and dark pink that really make the transparency visually convincing. Whenever possible we’ve made the quilts in Transparency [...]

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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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technology pouch for back to schoolers

August 29, 2011 – 10:36 pm

If you don’t have school-age kids you might not realize how dramatically the school supply lists have changed at least since I was a kid. It’s not just #2 pencils anymore — and by the way, my sympathies if some well-intentioned person at your child’s school has decided to sell “Smencils” as a fundraiser. Smencils [...]

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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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minkee is the cat’s meow

August 12, 2011 – 11:49 am

“It’s like the minkee throw,” is a running joke in our family. A couple of years ago, tired of Chicago’s long and cold winters, I said that I was going to make the warmest possible throw and back it with Minkee. Bill looked as if I had just said, “I think I’m going to get [...]

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