Dyeing to Quilt

Canal Houses Project Inspiration Photos

2010-04-05T20:59:00.001-07:00

These are the photos we will be working from for the Canal Houses Swap. Wil made the line drawing based on the color photo.

The advantage of working from a line drawing is that we get much more leeway for creative decisions in our interpretations.

Each day I work on my houses I am more excited. This project allows for the incorporation of hundreds of techniques, fibers, embellishments and the color pallet is wide open.

A huge thank you goes out to our hostess, Wil, for coming up with this fun idea!

Textured Water Partially Embellished

2010-03-31T12:30:00.000-07:00

I'm not really sure I like this! I ran several lines of stitching in waves across and stitched down some knobby variegated yarn... the regular threads aren't bold enough. And the lines that show the best in person are the lines of stitches done with a fancy stitch from my machine.

The ones I like best are the stitches used in knits and jeans, that have two stitches side by side. The "thicker" lines look bolder and easier to see.

Of course I could use some of the 30 wt and 12 wt threads but I don't have any in blues or greens at the moment.

I might add some beading along the stitch lines or I could leave that for the recipient...

I have to think on this a bit.........

Textured Water

2010-03-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

This is the first time I'm trying this with cottons. It's a first step in obtaining a textured surface, in this case, water for one of my houses.

Step 1. Wet a piece of cotton. Make sure it thoroughly wet, then wring out the excess water. Lay it flat on a terry towel that is laid onto some parchment paper. The towel will absorb a lot of the water and the parchment will keep your ironing board dry.

Move the flat wet fabric into "scrunches" that resemble water waves. This is a purely subjective technique so your waves can take on any shape you desire.

Step 2. Once the waves have been scrunched to your satisfaction, lay a second piece of parchment gently over the wet fabric. Begin to press your fabric with a dry iron in an up-and-down movement. Do not iron back and forth as you might change your waves. The goal here is to begin to set the waves into the fabric.

Step 3. As the fabric begins to dry from the heat of the iron the waves begin to set. They still look quite damp and textural while the fabric is on the towel.

Step 4. Remove the towel from under the fabric as it begins to dry. This took me about 10 minutes of pressing and checking. I also turned the fabric over and pressed from the back once the towel was removed. I handled it gently but it flipped over without losing the waves.

Once the fabric is somewhat dry, leave it to sit untouched until completely dry. It should remain on the parchment paper for this step. That will keep your ironing board dry and give you a surface to use if you have to move it.

My plans at this point... let it dry completely then give it a final press with steam.

Final step will be to fuse it to some Misty Fuse which will hold the waves permanently. After that I might do some thread work to hold the waves and accentuate the water texture. Who knows?! I'm excited to see if this technique works the way I hope it will.

Line Drawings as Pattern?!

2010-03-25T15:18:00.001-07:00

Here is one of three pages I received of the enlarged line drawing for the slice quilt our group will be doing. The three pages seemed HUGE when I opened the envelope. If you remember, Wil in The Netherlands made the line drawing based on a picture, emailed it to Kelly in Minnesota who enlarged it at Kinkos/Fedex. Each page is 36 inches tall and really, really wide. I didn't measure the width...

There are ten houses to complete. We can use any colors/technique/fibers we choose. We make each house individually, mail them to Wil who will mix/match with the other swappers and return to us our A house plus houses from the other nine swappers. In the end the quilt will be 33 inches tall without borders and I'll have to measure the width later. It will be long enough to hang over our king-size bed.

After my initial overwhelmed feeling when opening the envelope I cut the houses into slices. Made things seem more manageable.

Then I cut each house drawing at the seawall/water line and the top of the roof. That made my drawing even more manageable!

And finally, I cut stabilizer backings for each of the ten houses, 33 inches tall by the width of the house. Each house width is different.

As I progress I'll be posting pictures on how I create each one. Next post is how I made some water --- it's textured!

Sliced Quilt - Canal Houses

2010-03-07T10:02:00.001-08:00

The next big project is another group quilt. This time the concept is a "sliced" quilt, very similar to a "fractured" quilt. The recent Fractured Flower we did is posted in earlier entries.

This time Wil, in The Netherlands, chose a photo of a row of canal houses for us to do. We will slice each house apart and interpret them in fiber, then swap and assemble them back in a long, horizontal quilt. There are ten of us - from the US, Canada and Europe, a true international group!

The exciting part is that we will be working from a LINE DRAWING. This leaves us with complete creative responsibility for colors, fibers, embellishments, etc.

The only thing that has to line up in this project is the sidewalk that runs in front of each house. It's a horizontal line that needs to match so each swapper will have to make sure in her 10 houses that the sidewalk exactly meets dimensions.

I'm excited because of the opportunity to use so many varied fibers and techniques... ten skys, ten waters, ten houses with all that go with them. I think I am going to use hand-dyes and traditional fabrics that have been altered with some surface design.

I've already done one sky - a weave of two sky fabrics.

As soon as the paperwork arrives I'll get some photos posted. This will be a long project - from March to November, but in the end, I'll have 9 houses from all around the world to stitch to mine. Rather an international community, wouldn't you say?

I've already got a name for the quilt: The Houses That Friends Built.

Pup in the Corner

2009-09-15T16:49:00.000-07:00

This is a quilt I started years ago and just finished this year. The white cottons used back in 1982 were very thin so I had this one long-arm quilted with an additional white fabric under the quilt top. So, top, white fabric, batting, backing. With the Hobbs 80/20 the weight of the quilt is pretty heavy. Amazing what one extra piece of fabric can add! Definitely a winter weight quilt.

I love the crisp look of blue and white quilts! Very clean and happy. And while the whites look a little dull here in the photo, they are clear, pure white in person.

Almost Done, Needs a Finished Edge?

2009-09-15T16:29:00.000-07:00

This is the scrappy log cabin I made myself for a lovey quilt. I used scraps from my blues, purples, greens and reds stashes. Bob insisted it wouldn't be a lovey without Orange. His favorite color... and so the orange rows were born.

I planned to face it instead of bind it, and had decided not to have a border. So it's long-arm quilted beautifully by Linda Esenbock and I think it needs some kind of finishing edge! I may have goofed about the binding/border... oh well, there is always a fix!

I'm toying with the idea of doing a 2 inch binding in red to repeat the red in the block centers. Time to sit and think....... hmmmm.

Suggestions?

Fractured Flower Project in Photos

2009-06-30T10:57:00.000-07:00

The first few steps of doing this project are pretty tedious. Lots of tracing! But when a Fractured Flower is being done by an international group of 8 fiber artists, PRECISION is crucial. Each of the four quadrants will be done by a different person and reassembled into one piece. It is a case of "my tracing must match your tracing" and "my precise placement must match your precise placement"...

The only mechanical/technical requirement in a project like this is precision. The rest is gloriously creative interpretation. I can't wait to see what my final quilt top will be like; 1 of my own quadrants and the other three from artists around the world.

Here is a photo of the upper R quadrant photo with the master map in tracing paper and the transparency placement map under it. They are slightly out of alignment.

In the tracing paper master map you can see I added in red my underlay allowances for templates for each piece. You can also see that I determined the order, front to back, of how I will lay on the petals... A = first placement, B = petals laying over A's and C = top layers. Once you determine which petal lays on top of others you can mark your underlay allowances.

This is the placement map on transparency with the 1/2 inch seam allowances marked. In order for the four quadrants to go together well, you must extend your fabric pieces into the seam allowance.

You can see here that I needed to tape two transparencies together to get the whole map on one. I taped the transparencies on the smooth side with clear 2 inch wide packing tape then traced on the "rough side". I think either side would handle the Sharpie marker well, but this time I chose to trace on rough side.

The picture is taped to the underside of the transparencies while I did the tracing. Take note: it is way much easier to trace with a white background under everything than it is to trace with the cutting mat as only background. Took me a few minutes of frowning to figure that one out!

This project I decided to trace the transparencies first from the photo, then trace the master map from the transparency - hence the clue about using a white background...

In the earlier photos you will note that I continued the lines for templates all the way into the seam allowance. Here is how I did it: what you are looking at above is the upper R quadrant taped to the transparency for tracing. When I got to the left seam allowance I added the upper L piece under the transparency, butted up to the upper R. This let me trace the correct continuing lines. I did the same for the bottom two quadrants. Just slid them under the transparancy and traced the continuing lines.

In this photo the lines look a little out of alignment - I did that to show the four quadrants with a little separation for photographic purpose.

Here is a close-up. The white line you see across the bottom is the edge of the transparency.

Today's Haul from Hardware Store

2009-06-23T13:26:00.001-07:00

Double-stick carpet tape, little tile spacer thingys, chair leg tabs, rubber gasket and some more broken tiles to use for stamp backs. Oh, and some silicon waterproof caulking....

Tomorrow - stamping, tomorrow night, pictures!

Difficult Day or Day of Relief?

2009-06-16T11:21:00.000-07:00

I've spent the entire day cleaning out my sewing room. Not just dusting and vacuuming, but sorting and... gulp... getting rid of fabric.

It has been very, very hard to let go. But my tastes have changed and I've grown to work more in contemporary fiber art instead of traditional quilting. I kept thinking I could paint or dye the older fabrics, and I "could", but I realized I needed to LET GO. For me, that's a huge realization.

It's 2:30 in the afternoon and I'm beginning to feel lighter. I've packed up some books for the library, some books for a dear friend and a bag-o-scraps to share with her. LOL - I'm hoping she won't say no!

It does feel good once it's over, sort of like ripping off a bandaid :-)

Texured Prochem Berry

2009-06-10T09:37:00.001-07:00

Better focus, and notice the fur..... arrgghhhhh.

This is a macro shot (sorry for the blur) of the finished square. The colors did take differently on each different fabric, like I thought it would. The cotton velveteen is delicious, at bottom and left of picture.

The thread stayed white, a fact I'm pretty bummed about but it was a learning experience.

What you cannot see too well is the wool fuzz/fur that pilled through the fabrics. This is my last time to use 100% wool felt as a batting!

New Technique - Texture before Dyeing

2009-06-09T17:57:00.001-07:00

I just got a book titled Stitching to Dye by C. June Barnes. Her work is fantastic and she does some very incredible manipulations of quilts before dyeing them. It would seem to be backward but her work speaks for itself. So I'm trying something based on her work.

I've used about 5 different cottons in the 9 inch block above. It's 4 little log cabins stitched into one square. The cottons should shrink and take dye at different rates giving a nice multi-hue monochromatic look.

I used 100% wool felt as the batting and cotton gauze as the backing for their shrinking characteristics.

Once pieced and heavily machine quilted I threw it in a hot wash with synthrapol to scour it and shrink it. 30 minutes in the dyer added to the scrunched look. At the moment it is batching in a dye bath of Prochem Berry, then off to another wash and dry.

Tomorrow will bring a pretty picture, I hope!

Update: The first rinse shows beautiful color, and each fabric did take the color differently! However, my so-called "cotton thread" isn't! The quilting thread didn't take the dye at all. It's white. I'm bumming.

Two things might be at play here. The thread might be polycovered cotton, or just plain polyester. Either way it gives me a look I wasn't going for. I think next time a way to avoid this is to quilt with the color thread you are going to dye with. For example, if I'd quilted with red, rose, berry or magenta the threads wouldn't be such a stark standout such as white on deep berry.

Lesson learned...I can't wait for the final wash tomorrow. Oh, and the 100% wool felt DOES pill, as I thought it would. The whole little quiltlet looks like it needs a shave...... I'm planning to say I was going for the furry look as an adjunct texture... will you buy that? LOL

What to Do?

2009-06-03T08:21:00.001-07:00

This was done a couple of years ago in response to a challenge. I call it Sunday Afternoon in the Conservatory. We were to make a quilt based on botany and we couldn't use any flower designs in the piece.

After looking and thinking, I really don't like the result. I'm thinking about cutting it up, doing a cut-and-cut-again-reshuffle. It's currently about 30" x 30"....

Thoughts?

Same Color, Different Technique

2009-05-13T16:31:00.001-07:00

This is the same color done - one was tightly squished into a Starbucks cup and dye poured over. The other was done with the bowl method described in my last post.

Joyce Mori's book Dyeing to Quilt describes this as the cup method vs the bowl method.

Bowl Method for Less Mottling in LWI

2009-05-13T15:27:00.000-07:00

This is a method for achieving smoother coverage with less mottling when doing LWI dyeing. It is found in the book Dyeing to Quilt by Joyce Mori and Cynthia Myerberg. Although the book is out of print it can still be found at places like Amazon.com. Incidentally, the name of my blog came before I knew about the book.

This is my typical counter-top setup when dyeing small pieces and dyeing in the winter when I can't get outside. I use Starbucks Venti glasses for batching, both for mottled and smooth. I just use them in different ways.

I also use syringes for accuracy and neatness ( it's easier to draw up dye solution than to pour it, for me anyways) and graduated plastic cups I got from a craft store. They have both ml and oz markings.

You can see the Starbucks cups holding the dry FEs - nothing special in this, it's just easier to number the corners of the FEs with a sharpie and place them in order in the cups with the dye solutions right in front of the corresponding cups. The mixed dye solutions set in front of the cups after I've filled them with the right mix. This is a 7 part yellow to purple run, with three cups already done.

I add the soda ash to the dye solution right before I pour the mix into the bowl. I use equal amounts of soda ash and dye solution. Here, it's 60 ml of each.

Pour the SA and dye into the bowl. This bowl is 12 inches across and 4 1/2 inches deep. Got it at the dollar store for $1 !! Immediately start putting the fabric into the dye solution.

To get a smooth coverage, open the fabric up flat. This technique does NOT call for squishing into a tight container.

Lay the flat fabric into the dye solution. I lay it in, then move it from right to left while holding it to get it all wet with dye.

When it's all wet with the dye solution I pat it like a little wet pancake. It's not squished, but sort of all mooshed. Squishing and mooshing are two different things! At this point I will pick up the flat mooshed pancake and flip it over to make sure each side gets equal attention from the dye. Pat, pat, pat. Flip. Pat, pat, pat. Sit.

Looks good! Loves its patting.........

Lift up the pancake and squeeze the dye/SA solution out. Then open up the FE and lay it flat in the dye again. Repeat all steps above. I usually do it twice but you can do it more. I usually let it sit in dye for about 5 minutes each time.

This is what it looks like when you open it up flat. You do this several times - between each dunking and before you put it into batching container. Even at this stage it is obvious that the coverage is less mottled and more smooth than if you squished it hard into a small container then poured dye over.

Final opened up flat piece going gently into the cup. I squeezed the dye out just like before, then opened up to put into cup. Notice that there is no standing dye solution in cup for this to set in. There is no worry about bubbles causing lighter circles or standing dye causing dark spots. You don't have to worry about keeping the fabric below the level of fluid. I just lower the opened piece in until it is below the top of cup. I don't push it down or squish it.

Once the FE is in the batch cup, put the lid on and it will stay wet for 24 hours at least. That's how long I batch. Rinse out the bowl and sink and you're ready to start with the next FE.

If I do it right away before going on to the next piece, I use the dye solution in the bowl for parfaits and leftovers instead of pouring the leftover down the drain.

Yellow to Purple Run

2009-05-08T17:24:00.001-07:00

This is one of the color runs I've done recently. The colors are "yellow" to "purple"....... My choices were Butterscotch and Eggplant, Procion MX dyes from Prochem. Oh my, the purple is the best in the whole universe!!! I chose the butterscotch because one of the swappers in my gradations swap did it and I fell in love.

I've started using a method that gives more smooth color than mottled. Both methods have their place and both develop very nice coverage. See the post right after this one to see how I do it.

Finally, I'm making ME a lovey quilt...

2009-03-02T11:30:00.000-08:00

For the last few days I've been following the old adage "Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without".... and I'm making something for myself that I've wanted for a long time.

Ever since I made a log cabin quilt for my son for graduation from college, I've wanted one for myself. Using the Quilt-in-a-Day technique from Eleanor Burns book, I've gotten this much done in three days. I'm using up my traditional quilt fabrics and Bob is helping me with the color placement.

I know, I know... but it's actually been a fun collaborative project. He's pleased with the quilt top and looking forward to sleeping under it. It's nice to hear compliments, too!

The next row will be blues, then oranges (Bob's favorite color!) and then the four corners will be single blocks done in four of my most favorite fabrics.

It will be machine quilted for durability and be used all year long.

I'm loving it!

Colorful Fun in the Kitchen

2009-02-16T11:56:00.000-08:00

Today I worked on my Color Wheel - Medium Swap. I've got a great little system that allows me to dye small pieces of fabrics, ie fat eighths or fat quarters right in the kitchen.

First, I make my dye solutions up outside with a mask on. I'm thinking of getting a fish tank for a safety box but I can't find any at the resale shops. I may just bite the bullet and get a new one from a pet shop...... sigh...... $$$$$

Then I move to kitchen and dye in my Starbucks venti glasses. Where would I be without STARBUCKS?! Love their iced tea, black, unsweetened, no water, no shaking........ Yum-O....

Here my 12 cups are batching. The room is 70 degrees with the fireplace on... cozy!

This is my "dye station". The small stains you see are all there are. I use the counter and the sink in combo

A little wipe up with Soft Scrub with bleach and I'm good to go for dinner. The microwave you see on the left is for food. I don't use it for batching!

Tomorrow I work on my Color Wheel - Light since the dye solution is already made. I'll try to get a picture of the dye station in process.

This method of kitchen dyeing also works for 1 yard pieces if I'm only doing 2 or 3. I've learned my lesson and will be a Dyeing Dervish this summer, getting all the basics stored up for winter, like a squirrel....

Purple One in Action

2009-01-22T16:10:00.001-08:00

Peek-a-Boo with Daddy.

Purple One

2009-01-22T10:33:00.000-08:00

Another one done, after many months (years) in the WIP pile. This is the one I learned to longarm quilt on. Drove an hour to a local shop, rented her machine, and learned that quilting on a longarm is.... well, sort of hard actually!

It's a riff on the Turning Twenty design. I started the blocks then got confused and just kept putting them together willy-nilly.

Roxie likes it, so that's all that matters, as it is hers.

Decisions, Following Through and Hubby's Help

2009-01-13T10:27:00.000-08:00

I sat down over the holidays and decided to locate and list all my UFOs (WIPs) and decide what to do with them....

Bear with me, this is a round-about discussion... I wanted to have a new long arm quilter work on a quilt that ISN'T my son's wedding quilt BEFORE I decide to use her for the long awaited double wedding ring.

So I dug around, found an old blue & white hand pieced top in "pup in the corner" blocks; I thought the top was done. Sigh.... the ROWS were done, but not put together... (keep in mind this is a 30 year old pieced top that I did when I first started out in doing hand piecing...
remember fabrics 30 years ago?! some were pretty ick) So, had to put the top together.

In an "oh sh*t moment", I realized that all the rows were the same, rather than staggered. The blocks are supposed to be set in an Irish chain layout. So I had to rip off one block from the end of every other row, and add a setting block on there.

"My God, it's full of stars..." (2001 - A Space Odyssey)

So, of course the Hubster comes up to check out what I'm doing (ain't retirement great?!) He tells me what I needed to know to make things right, then digs around my buckets to see what fabric I should use for the backing....... yep, he sure did!

The front is blue and white. He wants a yellow backing so it will go with University of Michigan colors (Maize and Blue). He tried to insist on my yellow, 1930s reproduction 108" wide backing fabric. I told him it was saved for my Dresden plate in repros.... he gave up pretty easily when he found --- ta da --- a black and blue fabric with stars...... looks like what you'd find in deep space.......

THIS IS IT!!!" He's dancing, holding the fabric. Held it out and touched his nose with it to measure like he's seen me do. "TEN YARDS! You have ten yards...... this is enough" "YES - I want this one!" ------- he was so cute and excited....

So, he doesn't really know how to measure fingertip to nose, and I only have 5 yards, but it will do, I think....... A quilt by collaboration - hmmmm............ so now I will have a quilt in 30 year old traditional fabrics backed with a contemporary recent fabric in a far-out non-traditional design.

Just one corner of my sewing room. I have more than some, and less than others, but I sure would like to use it up before buying any more!

BUT, I will be using up fabric from my stash. And isn't that what I was looking to do?!

This long post is to pat myself on the back for making some decisions, following through, getting a quilt top done AND using fabric that I have so I don't have to buy more! Yay for me.......

Double Wedding Ring

2009-01-03T13:09:00.000-08:00

This is one of my long-term projects... a wedding quilt for my son and daughter-in-law... now it has become their anniversary quilt... and please don't ask which anniversary!

Some of the fabrics are hand-dyed, most are commercial batiks. It has taken me forever to get this done, and as I type this, the quilt top IS DONE and I'm waiting for the backing to arrive from Hancock's of Paducah....

Then off to the longarm quilter.

Fun to do, but extremely detailed and many, many steps for each block. This is a king-size quilt, which is another reason it's taken so long....

I'm not sure how many more big ones I have left in me. Large quilts are hard to work with!

Third Time is the Charm

2009-01-01T23:36:00.000-08:00

This one is called Third Time is the Charm. I added three layers because I didn't like the first two! Mistakes can turn out to be successes, if you persist long enough.

This was maroon painted fusible on white. Too strong, too dark. I painted more fusible pearlescent pink and fused that layer on top of first. Looked OK, so I did some FMQ on the surface and hated it. Sigh... layer three is a metallic paint applied over the first two layers, stitching and all.

Better! So I added the fabric borders, buttonholed them down and zigzaged the edge.

Another postcard

2009-01-01T13:59:00.001-08:00

This is another of my painted fusible cards.... I'm calling this one "Cool Flower on a Hot Day".

The fusible is Steam-a-Seam Lite, painted with a Jacquard orange textile paint. I fused it over white fabric, then overwashed it with yellow transparent paint to cover the white spots left when the fusible didn't adhere in all the spots.

The flower is simply fused applique with buttonhole stitching, but the grass on the bottom was another fun thing I learned - Sulky Solvy water-soluble stabilizer! Wowsers, is that ever fun!!

I laid down a thin layer of silk hankie, then overlaid that with green yarns and threads. Put the whole thing in a couple of layers of solvy and FMQ the heck out of it.....

BTW, once it's done, it cuts very, very cleanly with a rotary cutter.

5th Fusible Postcard

2008-12-28T10:46:00.000-08:00

Because I gave away my first completed postcard I needed to make a replacement. I got the idea of painting many colors, cutting them up and just laying them out to see what transparencies I could make....

For some reason the stitching shows up much more prominently in this picture than in reality...

Lessons learned from this card: I love the pearlescent paints (pink and purple) and that theory about transparencies does work! I think I'll just do some overall FMQ on this one, and let the painted fusible speak for itself...

Tools and Processes

2008-12-26T10:57:00.000-08:00

I love tools that make my jobs easier! My pilot training years ago instilled a love of and dependence upon checklists... so the first thing I do when starting a new process is design tools to help me get the job done right.

Below are some pictures of "cup cards" I use when dyeing color wheels, gradations and runs. I make the cup cards up for FEs and FQs and the mixing formulas on cards too. I do have all the details in an instruction binder but it's easier to use the cards than look back and forth at the page of instructions every time I add dye to a cup. Call me lazy... although I think I'm efficient.

I'm getting ready to dye my first color wheel for my online dye group. I'll post as soon as the pieces are done! Exciting to do new things.....

Gotta love those Starbucks venti glasses for dyeing FEs.... not to mention the delight in drinking their fabulous iced tea........ (shameless plug - don't work for them, just a satisfied customer! LOL)

Fiber Postcard for Swap

2008-12-25T10:19:00.000-08:00

This is the first completed postcard done for my online group swap. The background is painted fusible (Steam-a-Seam Lite), painted with Jacquard textile paint. The fusible shrunk up when it dried and left beautiful striations in the colors. For those I did FMQ around them with raspberry threads, then added the applique hearts and did some fancy stitches around those in contrasting colors.

The final finish was to zig-zag stitch some braided, color-coordinated yard around the edge.

I gave this one to my sister-in-law for Christmas. She noticed all the work I did on it; I was so excited about getting it done that I didn't want to wait until January to turn it in. So... LOL... now I get to do another one! Can't decide if I want to do another one in similar style, or change up completely to totally different design. Ah, decisions.....

Sulky Solvy and Threads and Yarns

2008-12-23T21:08:00.000-08:00

I belong to an online fiber art group and we do swaps each month. This picture is the most recent adventure: I tried (and liked, by the way) using Sulky Solvy dissolvable stabilizer. I "artfully" laid down a layer of silk hankie, a bundle of different threads and ribbons, and free motion quilted the heck out of it. Dipped it in warm water and what do you know!? I hope to use this piece somehow on one of the fiber postcards I'm swapping in January.

Look at the picture in the blog title area for a close-up look at stitching.

A New Blog

2008-12-14T23:07:00.000-08:00

Another blog in cyberspace... this one will chronicle my adventures in dyeing and fiber art. Quilting is a passion and while I have been quilting for over 30 years, I continue to learn something each day. Exciting!

I hope you'll enjoy what I share....