Deco Foil from Therm-o-Web is a fun product that can be used to add a little shimmer and shine to your projects. It can be used in all sorts of applications in scrapbooking – and of course it can also be used on fabric. This…
I don’t know about you, but I LOVE coloring! I was thrilled when my friend Amanda Murphy asked if I would like to participate in her Modern Elegance Coloring Book blog hop – and even more delighted when she told me she was sending…
I love it when my customers take color into their own hands and do something totally different with my designs! This is my original Sparkle Tree Quilt: This is Jean’s Sparkle Tree Quilt in a whole new colorway: I have to say that this…
How to stitch a Flower of Life Quilted in the Hoop Block Stitching a quilted in the hoop block is very simple – when you know how! Follow these step by step instructions that show how to stitch the design FlowerOfLife-06i-Block-Quilted from my new Flower…
Better Than A Paper Plate, aka The Dresden Fan Collection, was released this week. If you haven’t already seen it, check it out here! Half way through making the quilt, I decided to do some fussy cutting for the small fans. My new “Transformation”…
A month ago (July 20 to be precise) I moved out of my studio of the last three years and home of the last 18 months, and into a large house that can accommodate both home and work space. It’s finally at a point…
Last Monday saw me flying to Chicago to teach the first of six BERNINA Sterling Retreats at the BERNINA Creative Center in Aurora, IL. Attendance at this retreat is one of the privileges offered to owners of the gorgeous BERNINA 880 Sterling Edition sewing and…
Do you watch The Quilt Show? In honor of International Quilting Weekend, The Quilt Show, the web TV show hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, has opened all of its shows from the first nine series – shows 100 to 1513 – for the…
Before Christmas I was working on a quilt that had lots of tiny applique pieces that needed to be cut. I did what has been working very successful for quite a while – Lite Heat N Bond on the back of my applique fabric,…
While I was working on “It’s a Sterling Life on Berkeley Square” I fell in love with crystals – largely because it is so easy to apply them using the BERNINA DesignWorks software and the CrystalWorks tool. But what if you don’t have a…
