14 quilts celebrating friends & family of all ages
Recently I have been sewing quilted projects with neckties and vintage textiles. It does require some different techniques for sewing and quilting with the non-traditional fabrics. The bottom line for sewing with silk and silk-like tie fabrics is that it depends on what your …
It all started with Covid. I used what I had in the sewing room to create a work that ended up being a lot of purple—or more specifically plum. With the vintage linens and vibrant tones of all things purple it became “Professor Plum in …
Update: May 30 workshop changed to May 29 due to river bridge closure to all traffic.
Color By Design Workshop
June 12 or 13, 2025 / 9:30am – 3:30pm / $75
Limit: 6 students per session
Check out the fabric dyeing workshop I offer at my home (Hannibal, Missouri) on your choice of two different days, June 12 or 13, 2025. This is an educational workshop where you will learn three different methods of dyeing with fiber reactive dyes (which result in colorfast and washfast finished fabric/textiles). Please register via email of your intent to participate and to arrange payment by June 5, 2025.
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Dye Party
May 30, 2025 / 9:30 – 11:30am or 1:30 – 3:30pm / $30
If you just want to have a little fun with ice dyeing cotton and cellulose fibers, I am also offering a two-hour Dye Party! Your registration fee includes 1/2 yard of PFD fabric, dye, and materials. You may also bring an additional 1/2 yard of your choice to dye during the workshop. Please register via email of your intent to participate and arrange payment by May 25.
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As spring brings forth the new green I am inspired to try a new to me technique. Taking a simple leaf shape and dividing it into sections is an easy way to then pull all those small green scraps (or in my case pullling from …
Banded Geese My Way Banded geese is my way of giving a new twist to the traditional Flying Geese block. I did see another version on the internet and tried the method suggested. Having made a lot of FG blocks in the traditional way I …
I designed a quilt that is featured in the Texas Shop Hop 2025 magazine. I titled it Texas Treasure after one of the two blocks used in the quilt. Texas Treasure quilt block that I chose to use was identified by Nancy Page in the Birmingham News, June 21, 1938. There are a couple of other blocks labeled Texas Treasure as presented in Jinny Beyer’s book, The Quilters Album of Patchwork Patterns (2009) but this one had great appeal for use as the center medallion.
The second block used in the quilt is labeled Battle of Alamo and was created by a Texas woman in 1836 according to an article by Nancy Cabot in the Chicago Tribune, March 26, 1933.
The photo included is a computer version of the quilt, designed on EQ 8.
A kit for the quilt will be available at Touch of Patience Quilt Shop in Taft, Texas on the official start date.
There is an error in the instructions on page 106. In the Battle of Alamo block construction, step #8 it should read Bluebonnet Navy rather than Bluebonnet Blue.
Mistake: Challenge or Opportunity I set out to make a simple pinwheel quilt so grabbed the specialty ruler and began cutting triangles from the colorful fabric I had selected. I sewed block after block to make the triangle into a square to be pieced. Ready …
In May I posted my quilt Patio Pots, but am adding to it for those who may like a little more info. For many years I collected shot cotton stripes with most from the Kaffe Fasset Collective. One rainy spring day when I couldn’t plant …
The pieces pictured here are a result of my love of collecting and dyeing vintage linens as well as fabrics. Often I dye the fabric and then select the linens to coordinate but this time I was dyeing a large collection of “gifts” from friends and liked the result so much that I repeated with the yardage (several yards). I had an idea because the colors reminded me of summer sunsets. From idea to design and now in the cutting stage and ready to start sewing. Don’t hold your breath for the finished quilt as I have some other self-imposed deadlines but a top will be
finished soon.
After giving a presentation to a group of campers staying at the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, MO I decided to share a quick overview of the ice dyeing process that I use via photos on a current project. This does not give the details …