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Spotlight: Kathy Roehrer, Card Maker and Creator
Kathy Roehrer is a card maker and creator who loves to try new techniques and materials to customize her cards and make them extra personal. Let’s see what inspires Kathy’s…
Making Quilts for the 70,273 Project at Marbridge
The project acknowledges the 70,273 people with disabilities whose lives didn't matter to the Nazis and were sent to the gas chambers. Being a sister to an amazing Down's syndrome…
Spotlight: Daniela Gutierrez, DG Patterns
Daniela Gutierrez, owner and designer of DG Patterns, creates unique and modern sewing patterns primarily for women, but has a few for some awesome kids clothes, too. She follows her…
Celtic Appliqué Throw Pillow
Begun in a class with Nancy Lee Chong, this appliqué lesson became a Celtic Appliqué Throw Pillow. Bias strips, stitched with needleturn appliqué, became an intricate design with Nancy's pattern…
Super Makoplasti-Girl Doll
Last summer I had a total hip replacement due to a too-close encounter with our large (92 pound!) Lab mix. He meant well - I think he was genuinely trying…
Spotlight: Katie Vernon, Illustrator and Author
Katie Vernon has her new book, Make Art Every Day, that will jumpstart your creativity with guidance on new techniques to try. You'll discover new ways to visualize your creative…
Spotlight: Gianna King, Maker of Mandala Dolls
Gianna King, maker of Mandala Dolls gives each of her creations a unique and wonderful personality. She incorporates mandalas that she creates into the designs of her dolls and brings…
Spotlight: Jeanne Hewell-Chambers, Quilter
The 70,273 Project quilts create a moving display. Jeanne Hewell-Chambers created a project with many contributors. The quilts remind us of a dark time in history when people were perceived…
Spotlight: Kristi Leduc, Art Quilter
Meet Kristi Leduc, an art quilter whose textile journey may seem familiar to many fiber artists. Designing and sewing for childhood dolls grew into designing clothing for herself. Then she…
Spotlight: Diane Roubal, Up for the Challenge
Diane Roubal, Up for the Challenge artist, is an uber-experienced seamstress and quilt maker with hundreds of projects in her portfolio. To spice up her quilting life, she enters challenges…
Spotlight: Jacquie Moesel, Children’s Clothing Designer
Jacquie Moesel, children's clothing designer and owner of Moesel Clothing, partners her designs with a women's collective of artisans in Peru to realize her vision for a special line of…
Spotlight: Pat Solon, Bending Artistic Boundaries
Do you collaborate? With yourself? Pat Solon does. From poetry to painting to drawing to fiber, she uses what she learns in one medium to push the boundaries in another.…
Spotlight: Nancy Lee Chong, Appliqué Artist
Nancy Lee Chong, Appliqué Artist and Instructor from Snohomish, WA, found her singular passion for stitching and teaching the art of needleturn appliqué, and has never looked back! The only…
Spotlight: Kylee Barnard, Silk Diaries
Kylee Barnard has taken a stress relieving hobby and elevated it into a rewarding business. Kylee does amazing silk dying for her business Silk Diaries when she winds down from…
Spotlight: Tesi Vaara, Art Quilter
Tesi Vaara's quilting journey began with traditional quilts, then transitioned to art quilts. Like many other quilters, she took classes from established art quilters and learned much about style and…
English Paper Piecing Supplies: EPP Essentials
English paper piecing, aka EPP, is a unique way to construct quilts by hand. It is an old technique that has new popularity. Often these days, we need a quiet,…
Art Quilt Supplies and Inspirations
Art Quilts can be pictorial or abstract, use traditional piecing methods or fusible appliqué - anything goes as long as it is a minimum or two layers stitched together -…
Best Sewing Supplies and Quilting Tools: My Must-Have List
Whether you are sewing a garment, home dec, or making a traditional, modern or art quilt; there are some notions that you need to have in your sewing room /…