What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Each year when it’s that odd week between December 25 and the New Year, and it’s kinda the holidays, but kinda still busy, and you start to think about what resolutions you want to set for 2020. Perhaps you’re how I used to be, and start to think about what you should set, getting distracted by weight loss ads that are suddenly everywhere, or all those “cleaning checklists” that are bombarding your social media feeds because you’re a woman and therefore apparently care about these things. You get swayed by fancy Word of the Year printables ...

With 24 amazing friends joining in on the Mini Masterpieces blog hop, I am breaking down the sharing of their work into the sections of the book. Starting with the first three lessons – Squares, Strips and Snowballs!

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Simple Squares

The first lesson in Mini Masterpieces covers working with Simple Squares. Whether you’re practising accurate seams, or want a simple project to develop your skills of fussy cutting or working with colour, this is a nice and easy introduction to Mini Masterpieces.

Janice from Better Off Thread used the opportunity to make a new ...

There’s only several more days to wait until my book, Mini Masterpieces, is released, but today is the day that the book blog hop begins! It’s the 12 Days of Mini Masterpieces… because for the next twelve days, I have 24 amazing quilters sharing their makes from Mini Masterpieces.

Mini Masterpieces features 12 essential quilting techniques, with a sampler block and a mini quilt for each. For the blog hop, I asked my friends to make the sampler block. Many have also gone on to turn the block into a finished project, so that’s been fun to ...

Last weekend, I was in Houston, Texas attending Quilt Market for the first time. What an incredible adventure! I was there to promote my book, Mini Masterpieces, that’s coming out this month (in just 3 weeks!) and my publisher, Lucky Spool, captured this moment of me seeing my book in person for the first time…

While there, Lucky Spool hosted a book signing for Mini Masterpieces, where I got to meet some of you and sign your books. What an amazing experience!

Photo c/o Cotton Cuts

Me and @laurenhigbee4

But the signing fun isn’t over! I now ...

I have been using Aurifil thread for years; the quality of the thread had me hook, line, and sinker from that very first spool! And the range of colours and thread weights available have kept me hooked on tight. I’ve had the privilege of being an Aurifil Artisan for two years in a row, and this year, I’ve jumped ship to the designer side of things! Yes, that’s right, I am now an Aurifil designer.

Earlier this year, I pulled out my Aurifil thread stash and picked and mixed and selected and edited colours that best represented ...