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Protea Blog…Take Two!

Mar 26, 2019 | Borders, Color, Fabrics

Last month on my blog I posted about the Protea Squares quilt made with the entire Protea Bundle. One of the questions asked by a customer about the larger version of the quilt was, what would happen if you put the dark squares in the center instead of the light. ...

Stellaris BOM Part I – The Inspiration for the Design

Mar 13, 2019 | Block-of-the-month, Design Inspiration

From 1968 to 1972 my husband and I, along with our three children, lived in Nepal and India. It was in those places that I fell in love with geometric and mosaic designs. The images were everywhere–on buildings, walls, textiles, gardens–and they became...

Protea – A Bundle With So Many Possibilities

Feb 27, 2019 | Borders, Fabrics, Fat Quarters

Last month, we introduced our latest grand bundle, Protea, named after an amazing flower found in South Africa. As I often do, the colors for this bundle we’re pulled from a photograph the Studio’s manager, Rebecca, took while on a trip there in 2017. If you are...

A Snow Day = A Sew Day

Feb 21, 2019 | A Quilter's Life, My Staff

When bad weather forces us to close the Studio, we spend our day as many of you would—working on our quilting projects. Here’s a quick look at how many of we staffers spent our free day. Jinny is currently in the middle of taping the lessons for her new...

Necessary Neutrals

Dec 19, 2018 | Color, Fabrics

When I gave my very first talk on color many years ago, I mentioned that I had a “secret ingredient” that seemed to work with almost every color scheme I put together. That ingredient was brown. As the years went on I soon realized that it wasn’t just brown but any...

Irish Heather Grand Bundle

Nov 26, 2018 | Borders, Color, Design Inspiration, Quilts

This week’s web special offers the last of the Irish Heather bundles. In August, I introduced the grand bundle with colors extracted from a photograph of the Irish hillside taken by Nancy Fallone. Once a month for five months we have offered nine of those...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nov 21, 2018 | Color, News, Recipes

Here it is almost the beginning of winter and fall seems like a blur. It seems I was on a treadmill and didn’t know when to get off. We had our anniversary sale, followed by some classes, then our 10-day shop hop, followed by a trip to Quilt Market in Houston and as...

Creating a Quilt with Irish Heather Fabrics

Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, Color, Fat Quarters, Quilts

Last month I wrote a blog post on getting color inspiration from a photograph. I gathered fabrics that matched those colors and created the Irish Heather grand bundle of 45 different fabrics. I showed a quilt I created from those fabrics and arranged triangles in the...

My Quest Quilt: The Voyage Continues

Aug 8, 2018 | Color, Fabrics, Quilts

Last month, I shared with you the beginning design process for our Quilters’ Quest Shop Hop quilt for this year. I designed the quilt in black and white and decided upon two different shaded units made from 60° diamonds. The next step in the design...

Watch and Learn Online

Jul 29, 2018 | Block-of-the-month, Quilting, Teaching, Tips

We often receive questions and comments from quilters about a wide range of topics and often those questions will pertain to a wider audience and seem a good topic for a blog. We received the following comment from Rosemary: “Please consider creating online hand...

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