Funny story about how my Stone Slice quilt pattern came to be: I picked up my geode bookend on a cross-country road trip in 2000. My then boyfriend (Jason, now husband), friend (now best friend) and her fiancee (now ex-husband) drove a 1971 Cadillac Eldorado convertible from CT to Vegas for a friend’s wedding. Everyone […]
Enjoy 15 of some of my favorite modern quilts from QuiltCon 2018 in Pasadena, California. All descriptions were written by the makers. Do you have a favorite quilt you saw at QuiltCon (or online from QuiltCon)? If so, which one was it and why? Let me know in the comments below!
The QuiltCon Charity Challenge is one of the Modern Quilt Guild‘s largest-scale charity projects. This year, guilds and individual members were challenged to create modern traditional quilts using a pre-defined color palette. All charity quilts were returned to the makers and will be donated to benefit a local charity. Here are just a few of […]
It’s no secret that Hawaii, specifically the Big Island and Kauai, is my most favorite place on earth. {Read more about my obsession with Hawaii and Hawaiian inspired quilts.} If I could pick just one place to live, it would be on the islands. My first visit was in January 2010. Jason and I flew […]
Earlier this year, Christopher Thompson, (aka The Tattooed Quilter) asked if I would make a mini quilt using solids and near solids that complimented his first fabric collection, Blue Carolina. The package of fabrics arrived and I’ll admit that at first I had a difficult time trying to decide what to make. The color palette […]
Seven years ago, I visited Hawaii for the first time. As a wedding gift a few years earlier, Jason and I were given a week at a timeshare anywhere in the world. Our plan was to visit Europe. The timing didn’t work out—the only time we could coordinate travel with other things happening in our lives at […]
I first met the lovely and talented Leah Day a couple of years ago when I participating in her free motion quilting class at MQX Quilt Festival—New England. I was super excited to see her again when she visited my Quilt Market booth last fall. At Market, Leah proposed that we collaborate on a small […]
Here is a recap of Week 4 of my 365 days of handwork challenge (Monday, May 1–Sunday, May 7, 2017): {If you missed it, you can read about the challenge here.} Click here to subscribe to my newsletter, Three Things Thursday, to get tutorials, quilting tips and more updates from the Studio.
Enjoy more of my favorite quilts from QuiltCon 2017. Be sure to check out more quilts in part 1 post. You can find it here.
The juried show at QuiltCon 2017 was amazing! This was my third QuiltCon and each year the design and craftsmanship of the work tops the previous year. Enjoy just some of my favorite quilts from the show: