Tag: quilt

  • November’s Awkward Animal Portraits Pattern Release is Here!

    November’s Awkward Animal Portraits Pattern Release is Here!

    It’s time for our next installment of the Awkward Animal Portraits series! So who’s this pattern is for? Wait for it, wait for it…the birds!!! (hardy har har) What better way to celebrate these fine feathered living dinosaur friends of ours than to give you not one, not two, not three, but FOUR festive ways…

  • Awkward Animal Portraits Series: Seasonal Special Edition

    Awkward Animal Portraits Series: Seasonal Special Edition

    If you’ve been following along with our Awkward Animal Portraits (AAP) quilt pattern series, you’ll know we’re now ready to humanely release our October creature, and in true nocturnal partying weekend style, a certain someone is oh-so-fashionably late, but as we know, better late than never. So without further delay, please welcome our first Seasonal Special…

  • A Little About QuiltCon 2016

    I flew to Pasadena this weekend to attend QuiltCon 2016 and thought, in my exhausted afterglow haze one day after arriving home, that I should sit down, write something about it and blast that out to the planet, because train wreck’s gonna wreck and who cares about coherency and grammar anyway. First, the Pasadena Convention…

  • Last Project of 2015: Complete!

    F-I-N-A-L-L-Y! That’s all I’m gonna say. Pfffft, I’m lying. I’m going to say more. You can’t stop me. I can’t stop me.  It began in February, with a progress report in May, and after a gob of sundry things getting in the way, it all got wrapped up just a few days ago to finally, F-I-N-A-L-L-Y embody the…

  • Virgin Quilt Market Voyage 2013

    Now that the dust has settled and regular routine is back in order, I thought I had better get on with posting my quickie run-down of my FIRST.EVER. Quilt Market attendance! First, let’s start with this little note I left on the dining table the night before my flight… After my lovely family dropped me…

  • Back-to-School: Nap Mat Tutorial

    It’s just about that time, folks! Time to buy gobs of school supplies and get that brain ready to absorb as much juicy knowledge as possible. And in between all that, any kid knows that good sleep is a must. Enter the Nap Mat, the perfect back-to-school cuddly quilt to make your little child very…

  • 15-Minute Mini Quilt

    One day not too long ago, I got a random request from The Bub that the household’s resident dolls, TeeCee and NeeCee, needed a blanket to stay warm. Realizing this would be a nice excuse for Mama to sew something just for fun, I jumped at the chance to do it right then and there.…