A few years ago, I made patchwork stuffed Dachshunds for my 2 biggest girls for Christmas. It was such a delight making each one and carefully wrapping each in a gift bag, taking care to leave their snouts out so they could breathe. 🙂 Oh, that was fun. So when my oldest daughter asked for a purple version for her…
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A Purple Patchwork Dachshund named Violet
QuiltCon 2016 Recap
Wow! I had such a blast teaching at QuiltCon West in Pasadena. Here’s a recap of my classes from my book, Modern Rainbow! Day 1: I taught my Huckleberry workshop. It was a 6-hour workshop with the goal of having each student make a quarter of the entire quilt top pieced. This way each student gets to see and make each…
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QuiltCon 2016 {Come See Me!}
QuiltCon 2016 is upon us! Yah! If you will be attending and are interested in seeing/ meeting me (maybe you are?), here’s my schedule: Buttons for you! Schedule: Thursday: I’m teaching my Huckleberry workshop Friday: I’m singing books at Stash Books (Booth #421) from 11:00 – 11:55; I’ll be demoing my geometric straight line quilting (see picture below) at Handi…
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Dryad Fabric Blog Tour {Giveaway!}
Edited to Add: The giveaway is closed. Thank you all for playing!! Welcome to my stop on Shannon Brinkley‘s Dryad Fabric Blog Hop. 2/2 Shannon Brinkley @ Bottle Tree 2/3 Inspired by Fabric 2/4 Angela Walters @ Quilting Is My Therapy 2/5 Aurifil 2/8 Casey York @ Studiolo 2/9 C&T Publishing 2/10 Rebecca Bryan @ Bryan House Quilts 2/11 Stacey Day @ Stacey in Stitches 2/12 Kristi…
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Sizzix Giveaway
Hi guys! I have a giveaway for you – and it’s pretty awesome too. Since the Sizzix triangle dies are my all time FAVORITE tool for sewing half square triangles, I’m giving away a Sizzix Fabi and 3 triangle die (a 4 1/2” Assembled Square Die , a 2 1/2” Assembled Square Die , and a 1 1/2” Assembled Square Die). So you…
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