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Have You Met… Rhya Tamašauskas?
Quilting hit me like an unexpected delicious pie to the face...I’m in love with it. it feels cozy and warm, just like coming home. -- Rhya Tamašauskas Rhya Tamašauskas is a Toronto-based designer and co-founder of the plush toy company Monster Factory. As a design...
Land & Sea: A collaboration with Keephouse
2017 marks the 150th birthday of Canadian Confederation. The country has been ramping up to this for quite some time now, with capital projects readying for years leading up to this very...
On Colour, Transparency and Background
In the Cut Collection of paper piecing patterns, I include four colourways in Kona Cottons: green, purple, red, and yellow. They work best on a white, off-white, black, or near-black backgrounds. Except for the yellow, which works best on black or almost black. The...
Colour Post: Pink + Green (Kona Pink Flamingo with Pantone Greenery)
Happy New Year! The Lunar New Year was just passed so even though it’s the end of January, it’s a totally legit greeting. This is the first post in series highlighting colour duos and palettes. Although this blog is geared toward quilters, each of these colour posts...
Tutorial: Chain Piecing a Paper Piecing Pattern
As quilters, we love intricate patterns, tiny pieces and impressive finishes. Even more so, we love the shortcuts that get us there. Sometimes, a paper piecing pattern has multiple templates such as the Teardrop Cut from the Cut Collection, which has 16 templates....
Crow Quills Analog
This quilt is inspired by Andy Gilmore's digital artwork “08-25-10." The intention was to translate a digital process of generating art into an extreme analog version. The result was 2,160 triangles in 25 different shades. As my second quilt, this marked the...