UpWords After months of planning and working behind the scenes, I’m absolutely thrilled to announce my newest fabric line with Benartex Fabrics called UpWords! It’s been so difficult to keep this news under wraps, but I have kept busy behind the scenes, creating many new, fun-to-make patterns,
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So, I did a thing. I allowed myself to be distracted and I cut off the side of my finger with my new, extra sharp blade, rotary cutter. It was such a careless, painful mistake; one that I constantly warn my students not to make, and I
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Cheeto (aka, Janome Cat) joined our family almost three years ago when he came to us through an amazing foster family through CARE Rescue LA. This sweet, young couple is very involved in rescuing pets in need to help them find their furr-ever homes. Cheeto’s foster Mom,
Read more →Many of you know I’m a dedicated and loyal user of Electric Quilt Software. I’ve been using it to design all my quilts since the very early 1990’s when my first EQ purchase was version 3. I now use EQ8 — almost daily — and I simply
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I received a package the other day that literally had me in tears within seconds of opening it. I have a wonderful friend named Judy. We’ve known each other since our time at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, more than 15 years ago. Judy is a fabulous
Read more →A few things have happened on social media recently which have concerned me and rather than lose another night’s sleep over them, I think it best to openly address those issues here. A few days ago, I happened to come across all four of our kitties on
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Last week, I attended Janome Institute 2019 in Atlanta. It was a fabulous event spent with hundreds of US and Canadian Janome dealers and dozens of hard working and talented educators. I was privileged to introduce two brand new machines at the opening ceremony. But on the
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For the past five years or so, I’ve had an idea in my mind for a quilt I wanted to design and make for no other purpose than the thought of it simply made me happy. But there was never enough time. I keep myself so busy
Read more →If not, you should. Allow me to introduce Jim Smith and Andy Brunhammer. These guys are, in a word, AMAZING. To give you a little background, I met Jim and Andy through a local quilt guild in 2010 when we lived in Tampa, Fl. They are such interesting
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Electrical updates You can find The Studio Part 1 HERE and The Studio Part 2 HERE. The next step in the process was to hire an electrician to add an extra circuit breaker, additional outlets and bright lighting on the ceiling of the studio. This is not an
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