I learned from Beneath the Cover of Widgetbox and their slick tool called a Blidget: you turn your blog into a widget that displays an image from your blog along with your latest headlines. You can see the blidget in my sidebar, below the visitor’s map. What a great way to spread [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2008’
Selecting a Fabric Color Palette
Here’s how I selected the color palette and fabrics for the Miranda bag. I find many quilters who are either intimidated by the color wheel or who understand the theory behind it but not how to apply it to their quilts. A real-life example should help.
I knew I wanted to use the [...]
Miranda Day Bag: Pattern Review
I’ve been searching for the perfect handbag. One that’s large enough to hold my small sketchbook and colored pencil case, in addition to the normal planner, checkbook, keys, lipstick and other essentials organized girls carry. Either the handbags were too small or were cavernous dark holes that everything got lost in. Until [...]
My Color Wheel Tutorial is a Featured Slidecast
The folks at Slideshare selected my Making a Quilter’s Color Wheel tutorial as a featured slidecast. Thanks Slideshare! Sweet.
Making a Quilter’s Color Wheel Tutorial
I’m so excited! I’ve created a tutorial on Making a Quilter’s Color Wheel, and you can click on the slidecast here to view it. This took me a couple days to do: an afternoon to shoot the photos and another day to make the slideshow, record the audio, upload and troubleshoot.
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Winter Class Schedule Now Online
My winter class offerings are now on my website, and I’m teaching including a new class called Lose the Paper, Not Your Mind: Half-Square Triangles. I used to pull my hair out making HSTs, because they were never accurate. So, like most people, I made them oversized and cut them down after [...]
My Studio’s New Look
We’ve decided to stay put in this house rather than move to the new one, so I wanted to rearrange the office area of my studio. I have a lovely writing table my husband made I use as a desk, but little space for papers or office supplies.
So, in the vein of making something [...]
To Emily, With Love
Emily is now sleeping soundly under her UGA quilt. I called it the Dawg House, reflecting the contemporary Log Cabin design. Here’s the label I made for the back, and each Peagler student who uses it will sign it with their name, degree, and year graduated.
I’m so glad I machined quilted this myself. [...]
Making Something Beautiful from Nothing
One of my Christmas gifts to myself is the memoir Eat. Pray. Love. by Elizabeth Gilbert. I’m finding it more entertaining than spiritually uplifting, but one of Elizabeth’s experiences resonated with me and I haven’t been able to forget it. During her stay in Italy, she experiences the Italian notion of l’arte d’arrangiarsi [...]
