This title of this week’s Throwback Thursday gave me a little chuckle, a snort of ironic realization. “What are your intentions?” For most of us, our intentions have been completely … Read More
Most people who try fabric collage for the first time come from a quilting background. Because piecing (machine or fusible) is what they’re used to, it sometimes takes them a … Read More
When I compare this summer to last summer, I’m grateful how fortunate my family and I have been during this pandemic. Despite the changes we’ve all endured, the two summers … Read More
In this fourth and final post in a series of Throwback Thursdays featuring my Summer Quilt Retreats held here in Maine, we look back just one year to June 2019. … Read More
In this third week in a series of four Throwback Thursdays featuring my summer Maine Quilt Retreats, we head back to 2018 for June’s class held at the iconic Harpswell … Read More
This is the second in a weekly series of four Throwback Thursdays featuring past summer quilt retreats. Last week we traveled to 2016, and this week we revisit 2017 and … Read More
Since I started this blog in November of 2015, I have hosted four Maine summer quilt retreats—2016 through 2019 inclusive—so for each of the next four weeks I’ll be revisiting … Read More
Tonight in my latest (and last in the series) installment of Thursday Night in My Studio Live! I will talk about using sheers, netting and other decorative fabrics to jazz … Read More
Most quilts are rectangles (or squares—anyway, the corners are right angles). But most of our fabric collage quilt main images are not rectangles. They may be round or roundish things … Read More
Ah, backgrounds. If you’ve ever made a fabric collage quilt you may have unexpectedly hit a wall when the time came for the background. The image may have gone along … Read More