As usual, I'm a bit late to the game when it comes to cool new things that can be made from fabric LOL. However, I have been wanting to make an official Jelly Roll Rug for a while now and finally got dow to doing it. I love the finished rug - even though it… Continue reading Jelly Roll Rug
Category: Day to day
Hand Painted Appliques
Just wanted to share a quick video with a cool idea I got from Julia at Stitches by Julia for making some cute doodle stitched owl appliqués 🙂 Check out her Youtube channel too for tons of fun ideas! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouCCM7iEYfU&feature=youtu.be
Featherweight Fun with a Friend
I recently spent a fun day with a friend who was willing to be a guest on a video I posted on my Youtube channel and Facebook pages. Luckily, she's a good sport with a sense of humour, and we spent as much time laughing as we did sewing! Check it out below, and be… Continue reading Featherweight Fun with a Friend
For the Love of Vintage
I started free motion quilting in 2015 on my old workhorse of a Pfaff using a darning foot, quickly realized I loved it and that I wanted a bigger throat space, so upgraded to a new domestic machine designed for quilters. With the eventual progression to bigger longarm machines in my studio, this new domestic… Continue reading For the Love of Vintage
Crazy Quilt Lady
As I stood over the trash can in my sewing room this morning about to dig for "crumbs", I faced an unavoidable truth: I've hit the point of no return. When I started quilting, I bought precuts for projects and used the scraps on the back of the quilts because I wanted nothing leftover to… Continue reading Crazy Quilt Lady
Charity Quilt Project – Ann Walsh Quilting
Check out the video below to learn more about a charity quilt project I'm working on. If you are interested in participating, please contact me 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOHIl146FCI
Nostalgic meandering
I'm becoming one of those people. You know, the ones who talk about the olden days, back when this or that was the norm. This is not to take anything away from the younger set, of which I was once a member. We do - as we should - go through different seasons in our… Continue reading Nostalgic meandering
My mom is a celebrity!
Well guess what? When I did my interview with Leah Day and she found out my mom has been a hand quilter since 1981 - when she made her first quilt as a gift for her brother - Leah wanted to chat with my mom about her perspective on the evolution of quilting over the… Continue reading My mom is a celebrity!
Interviewed by Leah Day
I had a super fun time being interviewed by Leah Day on her Quilting Friends podcast last week, and it went public today so I wanted to share the link and the experience with you! We had a great conversation about quilting, creativity, passion and balancing things in our crafty lives. Some of it was… Continue reading Interviewed by Leah Day
You are what you do
As I was watching videos reviewing various brands of water-colour inks this morning I had to stop and smile. The journey that has led me to this particular moment has been interesting and if you'll bear with me, I'll share some of it with you 🙂 As I contemplated whether or not to include a… Continue reading You are what you do
