Do you know what? I am finally making quilt ideas regularly enough that it all begins to flow and comes much easier. Making clear goals was necessary. Now I am finally nearing the end of the challenge and can look back with gratitude at all the ideas that I have generated. Yay!
Read MoreHappy Friday! I have been making a ton of progress on my personal 30 Days of Quilt Design challenge. I think that I am really getting the hang of designing with PreQuilt! Come see my latest designs; plus, WIN A PRIZE FROM PreQuilt!
Read MoreImagine bringing to life your quilty ideas with the click of a button? Are you curious? Intimidated? Now is the ideal time to give digital quilt design a try. It’s free with the demo PreQuilt version. There’s a fun contest going on (hello 30 Days of Quilt Design). And I just know that you have ideas, good ideas! Come on and give it a go!
Read MoreWhat, really?!? I never sew on solid white; but, for some reason I am convinced. Maybe because it’s summer? Maybe because it looks so yummy graphically? Well, whatever the reason for this change of heart, here comes a scrappy, dottie rainbow on white.
Read MoreOur challenge runs now through September. The idea is to post your quilt designs, one per day, and number then to see if you can log 30 Days by September 30th. I highly recommend this exercise! At the heart of creativity is discipline. It’s about showing up and trying, day after day, until something magical is born. Come to the experience open-minded and see what happens!
Read MoreHave you heard of PreQuilt? It’s a mind-blowing app made just for quilters, which allows you to easily design and visualize quilts. I have been using it since its launch in 2018, and am proud to welcome PreQuilt today as a Stitched in Color advertiser! Stay tuned for a great giveaway and a discount code for new subscribers!!!
Read MoreAt this point I have sewn two sides of the improv round. It’s looking so cool! I love the wildness of this project. The colors always felt like summer to me and now the patchwork has a busy, brash summery buzz too.
Read MoreA design wall allows the fabrics to speak to me along the way. Rather than following the prescribed route, sometimes we changed course. I am sure for the better. Here are several color choice processes facilitated by my design wall today.
Read MoreYesterday was a treat. The sun was shining, Elora was playing happily with a neighborhood friend, and I was able to spend loads of time in my sewing room. My goal? To start on Collaboration, a spin-off quilt for Positivities club. I got a great, leaping start!
Read MoreTime, space, patience - these are my weaknesses. I have, for so long as I can remember, tended to rush through life. My instinct is to run, not walk towards the next good thing. When I find myself in a place that doesn’t suit me, I move.
Read MoreHow to write about this quilt? I do absolutely love how it came out. LOVE! This was one of those enchanted maker journeys. Designing the quilt and choosing the colors/fabrics was more a process of recognizing the inevitable than planning the ideal. Everything about it feels absolutely meant to be. And yet.
Read MoreToday before I sewed the last long seam of the quilt top, I paused and stood just staring at it. I came to realize that this quilt is one of my favorites that I have made in the last years. It’s very much my own inspiration, unrelated to other types of patchwork that I have seen, plus the palette is exactly me right now.
Read MoreChoosing for color, choosing for beauty, choosing for me. My heart like bright pink confetti, feminine and strong.
Read MoreI was feeling uneasy and stifled on January first when I sat down to sketch a new quilt. Art is a safe and peaceful way to free yourself; so, I could have sketched something wildly expressive. What actually came out on my paper was the very picture of inhibition - pretty, symmetrical, contained.
Read MoreThis is where it begins. I can hole away for hours putting pencil to paper in my graph paper quilt journal. Some parts come easily and others are erased and re-drawn over and over and yet over again. Today you’ll see what I have created! My fingers and toes are crossed that you like it!!
Read MoreHonestly, I love my Kaleidoscope Groove quilt design, but bringing the concept to life in cloth has proved trickier than I thought. In this post, I’ve captured my evolving design process. I know that half of you are going to disagree with the choices I made, haha, so that’s also a lesson for us all. There really are no wrong choices!
Read MoreThis week I am spinning a web of star blocks. Fancy, twirly, glowing stars on dark green, teal and blue backgrounds. Each block invites an individual color composition. But the real design challenge comes in putting multiple blocks together.
Read MoreThis month I have been keeping a secret. Or really, it’s been longer than that. Certainly my marriage has been dying a long, slow death of many months and years. For a long while the edges of that growing reality were soft and slippery until their form became a solid thing that could not be denied.
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