
Inspiration for 2025
I’m slowly starting to think about my quilting projects for this coming year. I remembered a pattern that I made a while ago and the colors immediately reminded me of my original inspiration for this pattern: my favorite mug that I bought in a shop in Des Moines, Iowa during a family visit.

Placemat Tutorial
Summer is here and many of us are spending more time outside! We’re sharing a tutorial to sew up a fun, summery placemat for your patio table that can be completed in just a few hours and could easily be adapted to use your fabric scraps.

Use Adobe Color to create a color palette for your projects
From time to time, we all ask ourselves this question: which colors to choose for our next project? Often, we find inspiration during our travels or walks in nature, or from a work of art. But it can be a little difficult to replicate the shades of color that we see. This is when “Adobe Color” can help us.

Falling in love again with appliqué at the craft fair Pour l’Amour du Fil
Appliqué quilts with a fresh perspective and a sense of humor: a focus on the artwork of Deborah Dorward and Megan Manwaring

QuiltCon 2022 Part II: Favorites
There were so many gorgeous and inspiring quilts at QuiltCon that it is difficult to choose which ones to highlight! Here are a selection of some of my favorites, in no particular order.