Snow Day, Snow Dye
Over the years, I've gotten myself into a regular habit of dyeing fabric every time we have a good snow. At the beginning of this month...
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- Oct 27, 2022
Excellent partnership!
You get excellent results when you partner a group of quilters and the Studio 180 Design tools and sew for a great cause! Nancy from Bow...
- Sep 17, 2022
Wedge Star Variations
Had a brief outing this morning to drive up to Never Done Quilting in Beiseker to drop off quilt class samples. On October 1, we're...
- Jul 28, 2022
What to do with ugly quilts
I did a thing this past week. A few years ago, I tried to organize my scraps. I cut a bunch of fabrics into 1 1/2" strips. I pulled out...
- Jun 24, 2022
Two Classes in One!
I've spent the last few days working on quilt samples for 2 classes at once! Yep! I'm pretty smart! Not really, but making these...
- Jun 21, 2022
Geese on the Edge - easy peasy!
Sometimes it's worthwhile to take a class. I take classes to learn new things, to update my skills and to see how other educators...
- Feb 9, 2022
Getting myself organized....more Makin' it Monday
A few years ago I challenged myself to finish a quilt a month. I failed miserably. So, in planning and recording my list of "I want to...
- Jan 31, 2022
Manic Monday or MAKE IT MONDAY?
I woke up this morning with a whole list of things that I NEEDED TO DO! It's after noon and I feel like I've accomplished nothing so far!...
- Nov 2, 2021
Fabric Dyeing - Red-yellow
I had some mixed bottles of dye and needed to use them up. I can't remember when I last dyed fabric (2-3 months) and these bottles of...
- Oct 31, 2021
Gradation Dyeing - blue to black
Last weekend was a busy time in the dye studio aka the laundry room in the basement. I did some ice dyeing and kind of got into the zone....
- Oct 28, 2021
Ice dye....'cause I can't wait for snow
We've had some amazing weather in Calgary this fall. This past weekend, the car registered 0 degrees Celsius, so I just had to do some...
- Oct 24, 2021
9 fat quarter quilt
I was spending some valuable time last week watching YouTube videos. I came across this one from April's Craft Room. I thought the idea...
- Jul 27, 2021
Coloured Cabins - TERTIARY COLOURS
Welcome to the continuation of my COLOURED CABINS summer posts. We've looked at the 3 PRIMARY COLOURS and the SECONDARY COLOURS and now...
- Jul 23, 2021
Coloured Cabins - Basic Log Cabin Layout
If you are playing along with my Coloured Cabins blocks, you'll have a few blocks pieced. Now it's time to start working on a layout. A...
- Jul 22, 2021
Coloured Cabins - Non-Scrappy 8" blocks
This blog post is part of a summer 2021 series on colour theory and log cabin blocks. In previous posts I've shown you how to cut and sew...
- Jul 21, 2021
Coloured Cabins - the Primaries become the Secondaries
We know that there are 3 Primary colours - RED, YELLOW and BLUE, but what happens when we start to mix these colours together? Let's back...
- Jul 20, 2021
Coloured Cabins - It all starts with the Primary Three
One of the best things I have ever done to help my quilting is to start dyeing my own fabric. It was a real eye-opener for me. I've...
- Jul 16, 2021
Coloured Cabins - Basic Log Cabin block
This blog post is part of a series of Log Cabin and Colour theory posts. Today I'm going to show you how to make a simple 12" log cabin...
- Jul 13, 2021
Coloured Cabins - The Importance of Value
What do you value in your quilting? I'm not talking about how much you've spent on your fabrics and sewing supplies. I talking about the...
- Jul 9, 2021
Coloured Cabins - Let's Sew a Quilt!
I'm starting a blog series called Coloured Cabins. There will be 2 parts to this series. Part 1 will look at some basic colour theory and...
- Jul 6, 2021
Coloured Cabins - what's your colour?
Quick, What's your favourite colour? Don't think about it. Just shout it out! Have you ever thought about how that particular colour...
- Jun 1, 2021
THIS I LEARNED: part #4, 2021 - Looking back is good..it helps us to look forward
I've recently realized that it is important to occasionally look back. When I look back it's often easy to see where I've come from....
- Feb 28, 2021
THIS I LEARNED: part #3, 2021 - I can say NO
I've learned many hard lessons in my life. One of them was that I can say "NO". I can give myself permission to tell someone or a...
- Feb 11, 2021
THIS I LEARNED: part #2, 2021 - snow dyeing adventures
This past week we had some snow. Not a lot, but enough that my eye kept going to that expanse of white in my yard. I just had to do...