What is The Quilter's Calendar? The Quilter’s Calendar is a brand new website that connects quilters, guilds and quilt teachers to each...

Just want to remind you that AQS Quilt Week, Daytona Beach, will be here before you know it. One of my classes is already filled so I...

I hope you've had a great Thanksgiving, and now have some Me Time. So enjoy the goodies I've lined up just for YOU. If you're in the...

In my class supply lists I specify 'no shiny threads'. The reason is that few things in nature are shiny. (The big exception is water.)...

Isn't this a lovely fall picture? How would you interpret it in fabric? You know that if you used plain white fabrics for the pumpkins,...

Recently my niece, Fran, and I were going through fabrics at a quilt shop deciding which ones work well for fabric landscapes. It helped...

If you know much about my work, you know I don't paint stuff. But I did take a class once that had us painting silk. It was fun and I got...

I found fabric that is new to me and I couldn't leave the store without it. It came in about a dozen color ways, and I couldn't decide...

My students got very creative thinking of ways to 'play' with acrylic felt and a heat gun. Great for quilt designing!

Free motion stitching done simply on synthetic felt isn't enough. Use a heat gun to make the most amazing texture. Cutest little starfis

Full disclosure: I have become an affiliate of the Craft Industry Alliance and will get commissions from those of you who join it through...

I hope you have a few minutes to savor the beautiful work shared by two students. I am so grateful to them for letting me show off their...

Last Spring I bought a great frame to use for a fabric picture. I didn't have the picture made, or even an idea for it, but it was (is) a...

I love to teach how to make landscapes in raw edge appliqué using Two Stitch Magic. I'm always looking for new students and repeat...

How time flies when you get stuck on a project. I have assembled the hydrangea piece, but it's not finished yet. As explained in the last...

I'm pretty lazy when it comes to gardening. I like a beautiful lawn and garden but don't want to do the work, or even be outdoors much....

My dear sister is a patient person, thank goodness. Her birthday was in January and now 7 months later, she has her gift from me. We had...

Another student has sent photos of her creative-ness! She took my class in which we created a landscape then attached it to a chipboard...

A wonderful quilter, Lynn Tubbe, sent me this idea for making 3-d flowers on her beautiful quilt: I photographed forsythias, with Mt....

Every sewing machine seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to thread tension. Variables abound, such as thickness of the...