This is started out as a piece of plain white cotton fabric, which I painted with Elmer's "Washable School Glue No-Run Gel." I...

I learned this technique from the fabulous new book by Linda and Laura Kemshall, The Painted Quilt: Paint and Print Techniques for Color on ...

If you are doing needleturn appliqué, and have a shape with an area that is cut out inside it, do not cut this area out when you are cutting...

The first photo shows a piece of Tyvek painted with Dye-Na-Flow paint and some Lumiere after it was melted; the "before" shot is s...

Today I am celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with some great quotations by him: “I have a dream that my four little children w...

I tried my hand at making beads out of Tyvek today. First, I painted Lumiere on a rectangle of Tyvek (a recycled U.S. Priority Mail mailer) ...

I have been experimenting with using Magic Sizing (Extra Crisp) instead of spray starch when I make circles to appliqué using Perfect Circle...

Here’s a new design, a table runner with raw-edge appliquéd hearts. It’s easy enough that you can whip one up in time for Valentine’s Day. I...

Here’s another little book cover, made today. This one is pieced with hand-dyed scraps, then quilted and painted with Lumiere fabric paints....

As part of my end-of-year organizational activities, I went through my old Rolodex to update and purge addresses and phone numbers. Seems li...

I grew up in Pittsbugh, Pa., where there never seemed to be a shortage of snow by Christmas time, but here in North Carolina (where it was 8...

Some of the students in my Beginning Machine Quilting class today asked me to post some of the free-motion quilting motifs I have used in my...

My friend, DeLane Rosenau, is making up my Bohemian Bouquet Mystery Block-of-the-Month blocks (see my Nov. 19 post) using different fabrics....

This morning, I made this set of pincushions using a pattern in the December 2007 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine. Stac...

I used to think my appliquéd circles were pretty good. Then I tried out a product by Karen Kay Buckley called “Perfect Circles” (about $12 r...