Recently I used a border print in a different way. The pattern, Diamond Daze, has a top and bottom border to lengthen a wallhanging to a lap quilt. Before, when making this pattern, it was simply a print in those two spaces. The border print is four ...

I recently submitted several designs to Northcott for a future release. I really loved the fabrics, but didn't have a lot of time to play around. To save some time, and still submit designs using these beautiful fabrics, I simply used "old" patterns ...

Several months ago I received an email from Studio e, stating they were interested in showing an upcoming collection in one or more of my patterns.I was sent a link to the jpgs for the fabrics and I went to work--ok, I started playing. I submitted ...

It's been over a month since I retired from the Old Creamery Quilt Shop in Randall. Prior to retiring, I started a to-do list of things I wanted to do when I no longer went to work 2 or 3 days a week. I don't think I've done anything on the list yet....

I finished up on a new pattern earlier this year that I designed for Island Batik. I can't show that one yet, but this is what it would look like in Northcott's the Lion and the Lamb collection:I did my test sample using this fabric, but ma...

I made some tiny quilts, using some of Northcott's the Lion and the Lamb collection. I didn't have enough of the fabric for the binding that I wanted to use. What I had enough of, I didn't like. I knew there are methods of using two co...

We are getting more snow, two days ago it was rain. I am soooo ready for spring!It's March, snowing like crazy, windy. Ten years ago I was working on a sample for the Creamery of what was the first of many patterns.Huh. I don't have a picture of this...

I decided to make another Baker's Dozen Squared tablerunner. I chose Christmas fabric this time.I have some of Northcott's Santa's Tree Farm collection. You can view the entire collection here. I think this is number 10 for me.This might be the first...

Yesterday I started on a new sample for the Old Creamery.We have several bolts of fabric that we haven't found a sample to use them for. I tried, I really tried, to use them for Baker's Dozen Squared, but couldn't come up with a combin...

This version of Garden Chain showcases Island Batik's Winter Wonders collection, out in stores now.As usual, I used Deb Tucker's rulers.I used the Studio 180 V-Block® ruler for the star points.And the Corner Pop® for the Snowball Blocks.The colors ar...

It feels like both.Recently, a package arrived from Northcott with fabric for several of the designs that have been in their Look Books.First is Santa's Tree Farm, see it here. I submitted a small tablerunner, and was asked if I could add placemats t...

It's hard to believe, but I've been selling my patterns for almost 10 years.I had played around in Electric Quilt 7 and came up with a tablerunner. I no longer remember what I was trying for, only that I took a block from the Library, Loopy Knots, an...

Northcott's Lookbook Winter Issue is now out. The Allure collection is featured on pages 34-37. One of my new patterns, Lanterns, is shown on page 36. Lanterns is a 45" x 65" lap quilt. It could be a wallhanging also, but then I would leave off the...

I've had three designs accepted by Northcott. One is a tablerunner that I designed several years ago.Also in that fabric collection, a lap quilt design was chosen. I've played with it before, and simply tweaked it a bit now. And I like it m...