For fifteen years, low volume fabric has consumed my every quilty thought. It started with a black and low volume weekender but the obsession carried itself into my quilts and now it’s all I want to make. And I want to start by saying everyone should make what they like. However, I know many quilters…
Scrappy January Quilting
Years ago, I remember Allison at Cluck Cluck Sew stitching a bright and cheery January Quilt and I loved it SO MUCH. I immediately bought the same backing she linked to and then I never used it. That story is so common in my stitching history. It’s part of the reason I pivoted from selling…
Spoolish Games: Free Spool Block Pattern
I may be the only one, but I have saved ALLLLLL of the little triangle off cuts from my Sonnet quilts. And lots of other quilts as well. I have so so many triangle fabric scraps that need a quilty project. And since my business is kits and this is a project truly designed for…
2025
They say that all content created on the internet should center the reader, not the writer, but I am going to break that rule. A lot of times I write of myself but the words are actually not for me, but these words are. I have owned a fabric shop for nearly 15 years and…
Getting started: Organizing Your Fabric for Ombre All Day
It’s day one & we’ll be sorting our scraps & fabric & cutting where necessary. For this quilt, I really recommend cutting as you go along, but you’ll want to have enough strips & squares to make the blocks. So, let’s start! Grab your pile of scraps.!The first step is organizing your fabric acording to…
The Better Angels of Our Nature
From time to time, it falls on all of us to lift someone else. It doesn’t matter who that person is, or why they stand in need, when others are hurting, it hurts us, too. My husband and I made a deal very early on in our marriage, when we were still sleeping on the…
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