Patchwork Weave is a great scrap busting quilt! Select a palette for the center mosaic, and start stitching! Patchwork Weave measures 60″ x 72″ (my favorite size!) Designed and pieced by me with my Baby Lock Melody Quilted by Natalia Bonner Fabrics are from the Free Spirit Designer collections, and my stash Strip piecing and [...]
While I'm busy with some less exciting details of life, (taxes/sick kids/shipping quilts) I thought I would take the time to share a few details about the quilts in my book! Â Modern Basics II has been on shelves nearly a month, and I'm looking forward to seeing how creative everyone else is with the patterns. [...]
Hi there!  Yesterday my book released - at last!  Joe and I celebrated with a special lunch, while most of our kiddos were in school.  Owen was a trooper, while we traipsed around town.  My copies of Modern Basics II are on the way, and I will ship autographed copies the day after I receive them (Hopefully by [...]
I'm really looking forward to 2013! I've got lots to share with you in the coming months, (as I'm able) and can't wait to see what opportunities come as well. Of course January starts off with the release of Modern Basics II! Â The follow up to my first book, offers skill builders, and simply fun [...]
Hi friends! I had a fun weekend at Sewing Summit, and will share more soon, but today I have some fun news to share! Â My next book - Modern Basics II will be available early January! This is the cover and a couple of the quilts included -- there's 14 projects in all, and I [...]
For the month of July, you can view quilts from Modern Basics in Port Gamble, Washington at Quilted Straight. Check out their site and let me know if you go visit! **If you are a shop owner and would like to have my quilts visit your shop – email me!  I’ll get the details to you [...]
Graduation is one of the quilts from Modern Basics - I love the proportions of it, and the LACK of blocks. Â It makes for a fast quilt, and great for a beginner! I re-made Graduation, and took lots of pictures to offer it as a workshop over at Craftsy.com. Are you familiar with Craftsy yet? [...]
Oh my goodness! Â How many of the quilts have you had a chance to look through? Â I know some of you were flustered on Friday with the blogger outage, hopefully everything has been restored for you! Â It made me glad that I had moved to a wordpress blog - because I did not need one [...]
I hope you had a great Easter weekend! Â We enjoyed time with family and friends, and were blessed! I also, took a bit of time to get my quilt "Posie Patch", from the cover of my book, ready to hang at the Home Machine Quilt Show (HMQS) in a couple weeks. Â If you are local [...]
After procrastinating and researching label options for all the quilts in my book, I decided to go to Spoonflower! Â When I was originally making the quilts, I wasn't able to label them, as the title of my book wasn't confirmed. Â So I sent them off to Martingale with no permanent labels. Â Now with Market around [...]
I found a sunny day at last, and had an hour to spare outside with my quilts! All 14 of them is a lot to carry, and get hung, but I'm so glad that I did. Did you notice the new header? This is a picture heavy post! Â I thought I would share the name [...]
