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Meet Blair Stocker – Featured Playful Color Artist

Featured Artist

5 Aug

Have you met Blair Stocker?

I know Blair to be an amazing artist and teacher who works wonders with value. Blair also created a really cool value finder ruler, called the Ruby Ruler. You’ll love Blair because her patterns and workshops leave plenty of room for you to leave your mark in your TRUE colors.

This week, we welcomed Blair Stocker as the featured Playful Color Artist inside the Playful Color Quilt Guild. In our conversation Blair and I talk value (of course!), color studies, working with different substrates, and more! (Members, log in here to watch our chat.)

In this post, get to know Blair and see a teeny sampling of Blair’s quilts. Finally round out your visit with Blair by finding her website or Facebook/Instagram and YouTube! 

Hello Blair!

Blair Stocker left the fashion design industry when her first child was born, 22 years ago. After that, her love of textiles began to focus on making quilts and using special fabrics in them. She is online at Wise Craft Handmade, where she creates online classes, patterns, weekly videos, and quilting tools for the modern quilter. She is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Blair’s Ruby Ruler & Quilts

Meet Blair’s Ruby Ruler – the only ruler that helps quilters see value! The Ruby Ruler works by eliminating distracting hues so that we quilters can evaluate value.

Meet “Tufted” – a pattern and lesson in creating value depth in a quilt design using nothing more than the scraps from your stash.

Meet Starflake – This one is so cute! Explore hue and value in a tried and true classic quilt motif.

Where you can find Blair: 

These quilts are only a sampling of Blair’s masterful quilts. Pop over to Blair’s sites to see more.

  • https://wisecrafthandmade.com
  • IG- https://www.instagram.com/blairs/
  • Private FB group- https://www.facebook.com/groups/WiseCraftQuilts
  • Pinterest- https://www.pinterest.com/Blairwisecraft/
  • YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN44M3I4p3RI-TVLDn3yaUQ

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Bind a quilt or vacuum? 🧐

Apparently, on this day I chose vacuum. 😂

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE to sew. 

But sometimes, when you have that one thing to sew that isn’t a part of quilting that gets you super excited, you find everything else to do instead! 

And on this day, it was vacuuming all the rugs in my sewing room. 

So if you’ve ever felt like you’d rather do pit chores over sewing chores, you’re not alone! Tell me in the comments, would you rather bind a quilt or vacuum? 👇

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Red, pink, purple, peach, something in between, or completely different? ✨

Comment your color below! 🫶

#colorplay #colorinspiration #quiltinginspiration
Here’s what I’ve learned after 15+ years of quilti Here’s what I’ve learned after 15+ years of quilting... 🫶

I hear things like these all the time... ⬇️

And honestly, I get it.

Quilting isn’t the problem. The way we’re taught to approach it is.

Quilting doesn’t have to mean:

❌ Marathon sewing sessions
❌ Perfectly matching everything
❌ Fancy tools or silly rules
❌ Finishing an entire quilt before trying something new

It can mean:

✨ Small, doable steps
✨ Using what you already have
✨ Letting the design do the thinking
✨ Finding joy in the process (not just the finish)

If quilting has ever felt “too much,” I promise, there’s another way.

And it’s a whole lot more fun!

Comment “CLUB” if you’re curious to try something new. 👇

#quiltingccommunity #quiltingproblems #quiltingforbeginners #quilter
Month TWO already!? 🤯 As soon as we start batchin Month TWO already!? 🤯

As soon as we start batching blocks, the months seem to go by WAY too fast! 

And as soon as we are done with the block of the month, we’re already waiting to start stitching the next one...

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Comment “CLUB” if you’re interested in joining us in this one-of-a-kind quilting community filled with quilters from all over the world, and at all skill levels. 

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