The Island Batik Spring/Summer 2024 fabric arrived yesterday! Before I would allow myself to open the box I needed to finish a quilt store sample first.I sorted out the fabric and measured the exact amount received, down to the quarter inch. That way...

I have a design that I've been playing with for several months. Today I'm testing it and writing the pattern.The pattern will include templates, but I'll be using Deb Tucker's Studio 180 rulers, although in ways not explained in the instructions. I d...

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...