An Easy EPP Project: The Story Behind the Summer Home Pillow
The Summer Home Pillow is an easy, beginner friendly EPP project featuring a patchwork hexie flower appliqued to a log cabin block. Ideal for summer!
The Summer Home Pillow is an easy, beginner friendly EPP project featuring a patchwork hexie flower appliqued to a log cabin block. Ideal for summer!
The Summer Home Pillow is an easy, beginner friendly EPP project featuring a patchwork hexie flower appliqued to a log cabin block. Ideal for summer!
Over five years in the making, stitches from quilters around the world, and cataloguing joys and losses, my Kindred Crosses quilt is a gift.
All the Christmas Quilt is a medallion-style sampler quilt featuring hybrid construction of English paper piecing (EPP) and machine piecing.
It took hand sewing to learn something about the value of slowing down. But, I was surprised when that lesson carried over to crochet, too.
This was probably the laziest Me Made May in history, but I’m choosing to appreciate that I have created these things with my own two hands.
To every stitch there is a season, and maybe to every season there is a stitch? According to Ecc. 3:11, “To everything there is a season…”
Grief is such a strangely empty, yet overwhelmingly present thing. Whatever it is, it is achingly universal.
Have you ever just needed a hug? I have. And, what better way to hug a quilter than by making them a quilt? This is that quilt’s story.
Do you ever feel like you need a minute? I hope this quilt offers you a kind pace that cultivates the joy and healing that creativity brings.
Every quilt has a story, and this quilt’s story began four years ago during the American football championship known as the Super Bowl.
This post about the “Strawberry Parade” pattern is a part of the “In the Garden” mini quilt series. Pattern now available in the shop!
This post about the “Dew Drops” pattern is a part of the “In the Garden” mini quilt series. Pattern now available in the shop!
This post about the “Kalanchoe Glow” pattern is a part of the “In the Garden” mini quilt series. Pattern now available in the shop!
Have you ever had a quilt practically tell you what it wants to be? I thought I had until this one practically spoke itself into existence.
Daisy Jane bloomed in the wake of what seemed a bitter pruning. But, I’m learning to lean into the cycle of growth in all of its forms.
As I reflect back on 2020, I can honestly say that I feel more fully present and whole than I have in a really long time. It proved a year full of surprises and changes, but it also became a year full of growth.
I managed to create a flower using the coffins as petals. It looked just like a daisy. Its very existence declared beauty in spite of tragedy, joy in spite of sorrow. And, the Daisy Jane block was born.
The girl with the tired, puffy eyes sat staring out the window at the tiny cardboard sign. Four letters and five numbers. A name and
This hand quilting tutorial series has been a long time coming. So without further ado, welcome to the Hand Quilting Headquarters, aka HQ HQ.
We have been “stuck” in Malawi due to COVID-19. There has been plenty to reflect on over the past few months. We have had several new experiences, as well as a few moments of reckoning with reality. Here are a few takeaways.
This quilt came to life as I mulled over this woman’s two cents in my heart. She didn’t compare herself to others or shrink back with insecurity.
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