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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...
Nov 11, 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...
Oct 26, 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...
Sep 17, 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...
Jul 28, 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 24, 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...
Jun 21, 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...
Feb 9, 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!...
Jan 31, 2022


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...
Nov 2, 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 31, 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 28, 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...
Oct 24, 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 27, 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 23, 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 22, 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 20, 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 16, 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 13, 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 9, 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...
Jul 6, 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....
Jun 1, 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 28, 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...
Feb 11, 2021
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