Hello 2023
As I’m watching the media replay what they consider the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2022 I wish to share the good of my year pursuing my quilting passion. I tend to be a person who is thinking about “what’s next” rather than …
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GreenHouse Effect process
Many asked for a process and even a pattern for my creative art quilt, Green House Effect. It is an art quilt so not a pattern but I can share an overview of the process as I made it. When making an art quilt it …
Evan + Cassie’s “Infinity”
The making of Evan and Cassie’s infinity wedding quilt, from fabric selection to completion.
Congratulations and many years of happiness!
Roses Remembered in Houston
I am so honored to have had my quilt Roses Remembered on display at the International Quilt Festival. It is now going to be part of their traveling exhibit for the 2023 year. The pattern is now available on my Etsy site, PosieLaneLinens. It is …
Update of programs
I have enjoyed presenting to several wonderful quilt guilds in Missouri and Texas this year and looking forward to several more programs before the year ends. As I just received word that one of my quilts will be on exhibit in Houston this fall I …
Circle in a Square
A great quilt group asked lots of questions as I shared my inspirations and reflections related to the quilts I make. I truly enjoyed being the May program for their guild and appreciated that a friend rode shotgun for the trip to St. Louis suburb of Richmond Heights as well as being my “Vanna” for the trunk showing. A quick little make and take learning how to make a hexie folded flower ended the program part of the evening. To help reinforce the process I share below a pictorial explanation of the folds. For those who want to try this and then wonder what to do with a hexie folded flower think embellishment for a whimsical floral bouquet or combine two back to back in holiday colors for a tree decoration. Or just add a safety pin to the back use as a brooch after adding beads or vintage buttons to the center.
Feel free to contact me through this website or email for program and workshop options for your quilt group.
Hexie Folded Flower
1. Find the center of circle (circle diameter is twice the desired finished size of hexie).
2. Fold edge to center and press fold.
3. Take the point where fold and single edge meet and fold to center.
4. Continue folding point to center.
5. last fold should form a point.
6. Fold point to center and fasten with stitches through all layers. Add beads or buttons to embellish.
Around the Bend
Down the road, around the bend, there’s an empty barn nearing its end. Sagging roof, windows gaping, weathered wood, rusted hinges, swiftly aging. (my adaptation of the first verse of a poem by Vance Oliphant) For the last ten years my morning walk has taken …
Ring Around the Rosy
One of my favorite quilts in my new book, Hand Me Down Quilts, is the one titled “Ring Around the Rosy”. I have made it many times in a variety of fabric styles as a baby quilt. Hope you will consider it for your next …
Hand Me Down Quilts
I am so pleased to share that with my daughter’s expertise I have the final proof done for my quilt book titled “Hand Me Down Quilts”. I hope it will be available by mid-October. It is not a how-to quilt book but has 14 patterns using classic blocks in contemporary settings. The quilt projects range from table runners to baby quilts to throw in size and are meant to be sewn in a long weekend or less. Caveat: a couple may take a little longer!! The main objective of the quilt book is to foster family conversations about the life styles and memories we wish to pass on to future generations through quilts made together. Hand Me Down Quilts gives you the patterns and the conversation starters to begin sharing both the making of family heirlooms and the stories that make us family.
Drop me a note if you want to make sure your copy is available as soon as they arrive from the printers!
Reiman Gardens Quilt Show
I have jumped in to a new endeavor in the quilting world. I have to part with some of the fabric and linens that I love to dye. I will never be able to use it all myself so now to consider how to package …