Inspired

 

I wanted to share my recently inherited pillowcases with you.  Ok, the photos only show one, but the other pillowcase is identical.  I don’t know what I’ll do with these besides quilt the living snot out of them! :)  I can just see all the empty space being filled with an intricate quilted [...]

EQ Printables Premium Cotton Lawn sheets

The following is a review on the photo fabric sheets from the Electric Quilt Company used for the anniversary quilt project I recently completed.

The photo fabric sheets come backed with a thin plastic film which allows for easy feeding through a desktop inkjet printer.  There were only a few times that I had problems [...]

Ta-da!

Here it is.

This is the quilt I designed and made for a customer’s parents’ 50th anniversary.  I posted the draft of this quilt about a month ago, here.  I put a ton of hours in last week and got it done at 2:30 am the morning of the anniversary party, which was last [...]

Lovebirds (Circle Gets the Square)

I worked like a crazy person Friday and Saturday and I finished this quilt just in time give to our friends who got married over the weekend.  Literally, I finished the binding (by machine), soaked the quilt in cold water to remove the marking lines, ran it through the washer’s spin cycle to remove the [...]

Mod prog

Progress on Lovebirds (Circle gets the Square):

I finished piecing the entire top last night.  I had to stay up until 12:30 am to do it, but sometimes you just can’t quit when you’re on a roll!

I used a variety of fabrics that contained red, black and white.  Funny, I liked the boldness [...]

Not my idea :)

Here’s the story about the quilt that I finished but can’t take credit for:

It was May and I was finishing the Boy with a Coin quilt for a customer.  Let me take you back even more… whenever I design a quilt, the first thing I do after I have the design is calculate how [...]

A nod to mod

I’m more excited about my modern quilt design now that my sister likes it.  So, here it is:

 

Doesn’t look like me, huh?  Simplistic, retro, high style, funky.  I’m digging the bird silhouettes – they will be appliquéd onto a white background.  I’ve been seeing birds pop up in art & decor recently: at [...]

Art Festivals

Last weekend Jett and I met my sister and mom in downtown Des Moines for the Des Moines Art Festival.  I love it.  We try to go every year – I don’t know how many years in a row we’ve been now.  Something always inspires me there.  A particular art piece or a whole artist’s [...]