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As the crowdfunding campaign for Our Song, Your Reflection was unfolding in May and June of this year, I asked a few quilting friends -- new and old! -- to each make a star block. It could be paper pieced from the original pattern, their own star invention, or a...
Canadian Crafts Federation: Placemaking Conference, October 2018
Last December, as I reflected on the year that had passed, I came to the conclusion that an overarching goal in 2018 would be "to learn how to be an artist." Let me now qualify that with an adjective: "To learn how to be a professional artist." One of the things that...
Tutorial: Aligning a Pieced Binding to Your Quilt Top
You've made your quilt top. You've made it through basting. You've got it quilted. It looks great. And now for the binding. I love it when every detail of a quilt points to a unified concept and the binding is the icing on the cake. For Our Song, Your...
Our Song, in Kaleidoscope by Alison Glass
Earlier this year, designer Alison Glass released her line of shot cotton solids, Kaleidoscope. I had the privilege of exploring these saturated colours in a second version of Our Song, Your Reflection. The result was a blazing sunset on a contrasting cool colour...
When You Don’t Feel Like Sewing
One of the hardest things about this year has been transitioning into quilting as my only job. When I started in 2016, it was an accidental business that was subsidized by the part-time job that I started at the same time. After 20 months of doing both things...
Tutorial: Skinny Strips and Inset Seaming for the 2019 QuiltCon Charity Challenge
The call for 2019 QuiltCon charity quilts is twin-sized group quilts in a specific colourway (above) using this year's theme, small piecing. The guild that I am a part of, the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild, will be submitting a quilt and we will incorporate the theme in...