My Approach to Improv Quilting I have been practicing and enjoying improv quilting for many years. I was recently asked to present my approach to an improv quilt. So, here is my best attempt to make sense of the crazy swirling around in my head. The first question you need to ask yourself is, “What…
You can read my experience with my own quilts in the show in Part One. Now I’m going to talk about the overall feeling and take away I got from the show. I did a similar review in 2019 that you can read here. THE SHOW STOPPERS First, congratulations to all the winners in the…
QuiltCon this year was even more of a whirlwind than it was last year. You can read about my 2019 adventures in Nashville here. I was only able to get away for Saturday and Sunday, so I made the most of the time that I had. I knew I wanted to spend the majority of…
When I made #theglaciertwo I felt a little disconnected from it. Honestly, I did not grow up in Colorado but in a small mid-west farm community. I decided that I was going to make a map quilt of my childhood town. Most small farm towns in the mid-west are based around a North-South road and…
The idea came to me when I was reading about the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and walking on the moon. I wanted to make a quilt that illustrated our fascination with the moon and the night sky. I drafted English Paper Piecing patterns to create the moon phases and assembled those…
