I love scraps and have the hardest time throwing even the smallest bits away. I have been known to go through the trash after teaching or taking a class and…
For most of my art quilts, I use a facing instead of a binding. Facing is a technique borrowed from garment sewing. Using a facing on a quilt instead of…
Slowly, I am working my way through these tutorials about Painting with Your Rotary Cutter. First up was Ruler Made Stripes. Today is about Mat Made Stripes. Mat Made Stripes…
One of the demos I did while at the International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas this past October was called Painting With Your Rotary Cutter. Here I am in a…
Before we can really get into Painting with Your Rotary Cutter aka Making Prints Out of Solid Fabrics, we have to talk a bit about how to pick palette. There…
I am back from Houston and the International Quilt Festival. I am still processing what that trip meant for me–it truly was sensory overload. When my synapses calm down, I…
Over the years, I have learned a lot about shipping my work, and I think it might be useful to others to share what I have learned. Living in Alaska,…
Over the years of entering shows, I have developed what I think is a pretty good system for hanging quilts. I like my quilts to hang as close to the…
Like many art quilters who started out in the traditional quilt world, I bound my quilts instead of facing them. In the beginning, I machine stitched my bindings on the…
