Meadow Rose Quilting

Every month I've been heading out to Bow Bench Retreat in Carsland to work with a group of quilters. We make blocks for Charity quilts. ...

Today is February 21, 2023 and we have snow!!! Lots of lovely white fluffy snow, so of course I'm gonna do some SNOW DYEING. I've been...

This year I've made a commitment to myself to focus on one of Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Design tools each month. January went by the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Welcome to the continuation of my COLOURED CABINS summer posts. We've looked at the 3 PRIMARY COLOURS and the SECONDARY COLOURS and now...

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...

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...

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...

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...