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It’s no secret I love designing and making quilts.

Since discovering the modern quilting movement, I’ve been inspired to create more original designs in the last 2 years than I have in the last 10 years combined! All it took was finding my niche and discovering the right motivation.

I’m pleased to announce that the folks over at Electric Quilt are enjoying my passion for design, too!

I’ve recently been invited to become an “official” EQ Artist and am now featured on their Do You EQ? site along with plenty of other well-known quilters in the ...

I have been working on some new quilts over the last month for my friend Beth's Drop and Give Me Twenty challenge, in which we pledged to sew at least 20 minutes every day in February.  I'm shocked to say I ended up doing way more that 20 minutes.. I kind of sewed my face off in the month of February, and have two almost finished quilts and patterns!  Yay! 

They both still need their bindings, which I prepped last night.  The first one is called "Expo", and I really like how it turned out. It has a ...

Good morning!  I hope you didn’t get hit too hard by the winter storm that just rolled through!  We got so lucky.  Our forecast first said 8-10 inches but I think we only got about 3 or 4.  I’m so so glad!

It has been pretty busy around here but in a good way.  For so long I have wanted my hobby to be more than a hobby and I have been working hard toward that end.  I am excited to say I have three quilts

committed for publication this year and will also be releasing my own ...

The Mystery Quilt 2014 is almost here! Connecting Threads is offering a Mystery Quilt Quilt Along to celebrate National Quilt Month in March. Mystery Quilt 2013 was a big success with 459 enthusiastic and supportive members. Mystery Quilt 2014, our second mystery quilt adventure, promises to be lots of fun for all as well. We think you will enjoy making this attractive, instructional three-part pattern, suitable for confident beginners and experienced quilters. The catch is that you won’t know what the quilt looks like until Part 3!

The finished quilt will be a lap quilt or throw, approximately 52-1 ...

A wonderful lady over on the Quilting Board inquired on the board about a certain pixel based game quilt. She was wanting to make one for her grandson, who loves the game but she suffers from Dyscalculia, which is a diagnosis that I am familiar with, as my son has the same thing. In case you are not familiar with this term :

Definition of Dyscalculia
‘A condition that affects the ability to acquire arithmetical skills. Dyscalculic learners may have difficulty understanding simple number concepts, lack an intuitive grasp of numbers, and have problems learning number facts and procedures. Even if ...

Sideways Quilt Pattern by Yolanda Fundora

Yolanda Fundora , an extremely prolific designer, author, graphic artist and children’s book illustrator, is one of QuiltWoman.com’s talented quilt designers. Recently, we had the pleasure of chatting with Yolanda about her work and her company Urban Amish.

Interview with Designer Yolanda Fundora

QW- Urban Amish is a very interesting name for a business. Where did the name come from?

YF- I grew up in New York City. The Amish sensibility seems to be an uncluttered, deeply rooted, meditative and practical approach to the art of quilting. To someone bred in an ...

Love.  Pure Love! How many quilters have avoided diamonds and hexagons based entirely on the Y (set in) seam?  Come on, raise your hand…with me… Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts has developed the Sidekick ruler and Hex N More rulers with a myriad of corresponding patterns to overcome that dreaded Y seam.  Check out our selection of her rulers & patterns now! We gave the Sidekick ruler a go-round

Love Links is the result of playing around with a block called Squared Chain. I liked the way the blocks interlocked, but really got excited when I turned the blocks on-point! This is one of those interesting but easy quilts that goes together amazingly quick! 

The fabrics are from the cool palette of the Neutral Love II collection and Mirage Honeysuckle from the Quilter's Candy Basics collection.

If you have never tried partial seam construction or making a quilt with diagonal blocks and setting triangles, this would be an excellent one with which to start. The large amount of ...

I’m sure lots of people make quilts with cotton flannel but I had never done so until now. The last time I sewed with flannel, I think, was when I made a pair of pajama pants in high school. But when I got a couple of header cards of the Timber Lodge Flannel collection by Robert Kaufman and a couple half yards of the eerily coordinating Black Bear Lodge and Deer Creek collections from Northcott, I knew it was a good opportunity to give it a try.

The Timber Lodge collection has these great panels which I thought would ...

Swirling Fans Table Topper
Swirling Fans started out as design for a queen-sized quilt years ago. I decided to play the “What if?” design game to see what might evolve. I started removing elements from the undulating design and ended up with this unusually-shaped table topper.

I absolutely love the Golden Age collection, especially the focal fabric Elegant Bouquet Lt Latte and its companion fabrics.

Swirling Fans looks so pretty quilted! I think I could design a whole room around this table topper and these fabrics!

One of the fun parts of my job is to adventure into the Connecting ...

Since I recently acquired a loaner sewing machine, I figured no better way to test it out than with a quick and easy project that will yield a beautiful product as well as fulfilling my need to hear the purr of a sewing machine once again. I might have a slight addiction to bags. And by might I mean my husband would say I definitely do. So naturally, I thought I needed another one made out of our beautiful Golden Age fabrics. I hopped on over to our bag pattern downloads page and started envisioning each pattern with some of ...

Just a quick post to let you know that I’ve added a pattern section to the website where I’m going to start putting the various patterns I’ve created over the last couple of years and a few new ones. The first entry is for the Contour Feather pattern, which I used on this multi-tasker tote for the Sew Sew Modern 2 swap.

More recently, Shannon enlarged it and used it to wonderful effect in her second-place-winning Riley Blake Challenge quilt! I figured it was probably high time to clean up the pattern for public consumption, and you ...

The focal print in Golden Age, “Old Hollywood” is such a striking print and an unusual one, compositionally speaking.  I love it!  I think it’s so pretty and so interesting!  Knowing that this print would be a bit more challenging to work with, I knew instantly I wanted to showcase it by creating a decorative accent pillow.  I also knew I wanted to incorporate embroidery to give it a more three dimensional effect.

I chose the Tea Dyed color-way, but this pattern can easily be done in the Sky color-way as well.

While designing this pattern I wanted the ...

Sue Beevers painting fabric

Artist, author, designer, teacher, speaker, television personality Sue Beevers of Trillium Ridge Quilt Designs is in the Designer Spotlight this week. We recently had the pleasure to speak with Sue. Sue is a designer for QuiltWoman.com. Additionally, she designs fabric for Northcott and plays the cello! Read along to find out more about Sue…

An Interview with Designer Sue Beevers

QW.com- You started out as a spinner, weaver and fiber dyer. What led you to designing quilt patterns?

SB- I love fiber work, but I found it to be a bit constricting:  no matter ...

Ok, last one. For now anyway. This one was made for a special request from my husband. For his birthday, he got a cool portable drum machine, the Korg Volca Beats. He’s very happy with it, apparently it is a lightweight, inexpensive, easy-to-use, versatile drum machine with some useful features that were previously only available on very expensive models. I know that a quilting blog is the last place you’d expect to find recommendations for electronic music equipment, but if you know anyone who likes this sort of thing it’s a really great gift.

Since it’s ...