Posts by Kat
Mountain Quiltfest 2021: the Review
So… its time to tell you all about the Mountain Quiltfest, which you might remember was our very first retail show since the MAQF was held in late Feb 2020. First of all, the LeConte Convention Center is a magnificent facility and the entire staff & volunteers were wonderful hosts! And now, it’s YOUR turn!…
Read MorePPC25: Prototyping
So… in our last post in this new Purse Pattern Chronicles series I shared with you my inspiration for this new design as well as the original sketchwork & once again I went straight from the working sketch to the 1st prototype, and overall I was pretty happy with how this 1st sample came out.…
Read MoreSix Shades of Grey!
So…. it was during the “lockdown” phase of the pandemic last year that I started toying with the idea of letting my hair go grey. I had gotten totally frustrated with having to spend so much time covering up my grey hair when I was never even leaving the house! All of a sudden it…
Read MorePPC25: The Inspiration & Sketchwork
Well here we go again! We’re at the start of that long road on the way to what will eventually be a brand new pattern design to share with the world! I love this stage of the process. I love it because right now ALL things are still possible and ALL options are still on…
Read MoreMay 2021 Eye Candy
So… I totally LOVE seeing pictures of the bags our customers make from our patterns! There’s not too much I like better than opening up an email that includes a picture or two of a customer-made bag, and the pictures we recived last month are truly extraordinary! ALL the bags pictured below were created using…
Read MoreGetting ready for Mountain QuiltFest ’21
So… its been 15 months since we’ve set up a booth at a retail show (the Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton, Va), and since then we have published FOUR new patterns which is two more new patterns than we’ve ever brought to a show at one time. In order to properly showcase these new…
Read MoreFortify Your Pattern Pieces for Longevity!
So… after a discussion about interfacing a few of weeks ago, alert reader Barb Fairlane sent me a in a description of how she manages to keep her pattern pieces looking marvelous even after MANY uses & when I heard it all i could do was smack my forehead and say DUH! Now maybe there’s…
Read MoreSeven Questions about One Very Bad Year
So… I really enjoyed this 7 questions for 75 artists about 1 bad year feature that was recently in the Sunday NYTimes, so I used these questions as writing prompts for this post. Now that the end of this pandemic finally seems to be coming into focus, I guess I just wanted to collect &…
Read MoreProduct Review: Peel n’Stick Wallpaper
So… if you follow us on FaceBook or Instagram, then you probably know that recently we decided take a little time off after publishing the Gemini FlightBag pattern to fixup our guest bathroom which for some unexplicable reason I decided to paint orange a few years ago. I’ve regretted that decision ever since. (Have you…
Read MoreA Double Oops!
So… Take a look at the photo below and see if you can notice the HUGE mistake I made! OK… I’ll give you a hint. It has to do with the zipper! And Yep! I actually screamed out loud when I saw that I had neglected to push the zipper INSIDE the stitching areas! Don’t…
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