After finishing piecing a row of quilt blocks I checked the stitch count on the BERNINA 560 and it's just over 1.5 million stitches since the last service. That was just over five years ago. That's not a lot of stitches when 3 million per year is average expected. I clearly have not been doing… Continue reading Welcome to 2026
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Let Your Quilts Sing
Happy August Peeps! Way back in May (where has the time gone?) I participated in Mastering Color Confidence on C&T Publishing's CreativeSpark Online Learning platform. Christine Barnes, Joen Wolfrom and I were hosted by the fabulous Amy Barret-Daffin to talk about the new book and also talk about one of our favorite subjects: color. This… Continue reading Let Your Quilts Sing
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Color Play – Joen Wolfrom
Let's Begin Do you know how you know something in your life is missing and you can't quite put your finger on it and then when you discover what it is and then you discover why it is then what you needed is right there and WOW!!!Color Play is it! (Links are affiliate) And then… Continue reading Color Play – Joen Wolfrom
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Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
https://www.instagram.com/p/DJt78SoOBRC/ Happy Monday Quilty Peeps! It is a little cloudy and rainy here in Central Texas and from what I can tell it's going to get kinda warm today and stay kinda warm through the week. My sewing machine made the return trip to the studio this morning so that once I'm done with writing… Continue reading Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
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Mastering Color Confidence
On Thursday I joined Amy Barret-Daffin, Marci Baker, and Joen Wolfrom to talk about color. This Creative Spark Mastering Color Confidence course has three 1-hour panels for $19.99, talk about value for money. Sometimes pulling color together seems so challenging, yet in some ways it is as simple as pulling together our favorite colors and… Continue reading Mastering Color Confidence
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I’m out of Practice
One thing I share with students, if after taking my class you decide that paying someone to quilt your quilts is the way to go, then I will have done my job well. While this seems an odd way to begin a blog post there is some big truth here as where we find a… Continue reading I’m out of Practice
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I’m Quilting! I’m Quilting!
A long time ago in a far away place I pieced and quilted Split Complimenterity. Quilters, as a general rule, explore the wonderful world of color in a variety of ways, sometimes with great intention desiring to understand how and why color works. In an of itself color is another language we learn with nuances… Continue reading I’m Quilting! I’m Quilting!
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Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon the day after tomorrow
Sharing her own insight and wisdom today is quilter and author Jenny K Lyon also known as the Quilt Skipper. We've been following each other on the blog rounds and friends on Facebook forever, and one afternoon walking down an aisle at Market we actually met each other, though I don't believe there to be… Continue reading Learn to Stitch with Reckless Abandon the day after tomorrow
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Color, Thread & Free-Motion Quilting
Color So y'all know life is weird, and when it's really weird I get quiet. Welcome to 2020. In many ways this is a great year. My Sweetie and I are in TX, we're together, our original house sale fell through about a month ago, Quilt Market went virtual, and Threads of Success is moved… Continue reading Color, Thread & Free-Motion Quilting
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Color Wheel
I like color. A lot. I like how color plays. I like how color sings. I like how color behaves, misbehaves, swirls, whirls, blends, hides, shows off and generally is itself. Joen Wolfrom appeared on Simply Quilts some long time ago, talking about color. She talked about the 3-in-1 color tool, how it's used in… Continue reading Color Wheel
