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NEWS // TUTORIALS // RESOURCESHave You Met… Lilli Lanier?
San Francisco-based artist Lilli Lanier (@lillilanier) has recently delved into woven origami works. They amaze me on so many levels, and she doesn’t even use glue! In addition to her own amazing work, she has also worked as a teaching artist for the past 15 years. I...
Free Motion Quilting Clouds and “The Quilter’s Path” with Christa Watson
Christa Watson is a quilter, teacher and designer based in Las Vegas, NV. I took her Craftsy class, "The Quilter's Path", having only ever taken a 5-hour quilting workshop with Linda Coolen Smith of our local modern quilt guild. I needed lots of help understanding the...
Tutorial: Quick Improv Pincushion
Remember the binge I went on last week that resulted in eight pincushions that illustrated a glossary of colour terms? Here's how I made them. These use the tiniest of scraps; each measures 1" wide and 2" to 3" long. And they're so quick and satisfying. I don't know...
Colour Post: A Glossary of Colour, in Pincushions
I have been following Amanda Jean Nyberg of Crazy Mom Quilts for a little while now, and I have seen her produce pin cushions on a daily basis. What a great way to use up scraps. I was particularly enamoured with Day 8 of this current round of production and made one...
Pier 21: Individual to Collective
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts describing and documenting The Here & Elsewhere Bee, my project as the 2017 Artist-in-Residence at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. A list of the subsequent posts related to the project can be found at the...
Tutorial: No Waste Flying Geese
I hate wasting fabric. It's probably a function of my upbringing. The traditional way of making flying geese is pretty wasteful. And there is a better way. It's well-known, but I wanted to provide my own tutorial anyway. Time-saving techniques such as chain piecing...