A Sneak Peek At Shelly’s New Space I am truly the luckiest woman I know. The entire lower level of our beautiful new home — ready for moving in next month — will be one big creative play space. How amazing is that? I was feeling a bit guilty about dedicating so much space to […]
Spook-tacular Savings On All Patterns
In honor of Halloween, we’re offering scary savings on our complete line of patterns. Order your patterns online and save 40%! Now that’s a spook-tacular sale, if I say so myself. Don’t put it off — the sale ends at noon on Tuesday, November 1. Choose from Butterflies, Bosa Nova Bags, Paintstik Patches, Coneflowers or […]
Spice Up Your Space with Sizzling Sunflowers
The Sunflower Quilt featured in our ads was featured in Fons & Porters Love of Quilting back in 2006. The commission to do that article was the highlight to my very first Quilt Market in the fall of 2005. The years have flown by, and I’ve had a ton of amazing adventures, but this little […]
Go On Safari Without Leaving Home
For the past few weeks, I've been talking about some projects that you can do with Design Magic stencils. Today I want to show you a super-simple quilt that would look great from any Design Magic design. The quilt is called "On Safari" and you'll find the instructions in the project section of the Design [...]
More Beautiful Coneflowers
Once a month I join a small group of adventurous quilters called the DIVAS for a Monday afternoon meeting. We share our recent work, new ideas, work on group projects, and try new techniques. But summer is special in Minnesota, so our August gathering was simply a picnic at Becky’s lake cabin. It was a […]
Congrats to our Quilt Market Winners!
It’s always fun to have something special going on in our booth at market, and this spring we decided to try something new. We painted a Coneflower quilt top each day in the booth along with our usual hands-on demonstrations and mini-classes. Because there is no piecing involved in making the quilt (all paint, no […]
Coneflowers will be blooming!
In spite of the weather, it has been feeling a bit like spring for the past couple of weeks here in the office as we put the finishing touches on a new Coneflower pattern by designer Nancy Kazlauckas. I have a perfect place in my office to hang these quilts – and then it will […]
