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2 Ways to Make your Scrappy Quilt Look Lovely (and NOT like a hot mess) Apr 17, 2018

You know how some scrappy quilts can look super gorgeous and unexpected, while others look like the quilter had a tad too much wine??

Here are a couple fun effects to make your next scrappy quilt look ...

How to Use Warm and Cool colors in your Quilt Apr 03, 2018

One of my favorite tools that I keep in my fabric selecting toolbox is-- temperature!

A color can be described as warm or cool. Generally, yellows, oranges, and reds are considered warm, while bl...

How to Brighten up a Dull Color Palette Mar 28, 2018

Have you ever been making a quilt, and while you're loving the fabrics you've chosen, the overall palette is looking a little dull?

This happened to me while I was making this London Skyline quil...

Skyline Throw Pillows DIY Nov 21, 2017

I started noticing a pattern among some of my students-- many were turning their skyline quilt top into a throw pillow! So I thought I'd share a few submitted by some of my students. This project make...

Color Crush: Cream, Aqua, Chartreuse Oct 31, 2017

Have you ever had that one fabulous piece of fabric that inspired a whole quilt? Well that happened to me recently, but it was a spool of yarn!

In addition to my quilting addiction, I also love k...

How to Build a Fabric Palette: Working with Golds Oct 24, 2017

Sometimes a fabric palette will start with one thread of an idea-- sometimes a literal thread. I saw gold embroidery on a dark cobalt fabric, and I knew I wanted to translate that into a quilt. My new...

How to Create a Dynamic Color Palette for your next Quilt Oct 19, 2017

I wanted to share my thought process behind the fabric selection for my recent quilt, GLOBE. I often want to include both warm and cool colors in a quilt to create a really dynamic palette. There are ...

GLOBE Scrappy Applique Pattern -- New! Oct 18, 2017

I am super excited to introduce the newest Scrappy Appliqué pattern: GLOBE.

GLOBE comes with 12 different templates: 4 different views of our planet (see views below), and each view comes in 3 d...

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