by Jen | Coffee Talk Saturday, General News and Announcements, Inspirational Sunday
Back in January a friend from home told me about this store in Tucson called The West and said I had to go and check it out. She said they had a very impressive array of embroidery threads and hand stitching threads plus a whole lot more including gift wares, toys and...
by Jen | Colourful Friday, Inspirational Sunday, Story Time Monday
I made a couple of TV covers for my friend who has an Airstream and wanted to cover up her TV’s with some textile art and add some colour to her space. It was a little over a year ago that I made the pieces for her. Then last fall she went and bought a larger TV...
by Jen | General News and Announcements, Inspirational Sunday, Pattern Feature
This is a piece I had so much fun making this spring for A Needle Pulling Thread (ANPT) Magazine June 2022 Issue. I was sworn to secrecy until the magazine was published last week. Now I can share it with all of you. And as you can see the theme was to make something...
by Jen | Colourful Friday, Inspirational Sunday, Story Time Monday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Inspirational Sunday. I was experimenting with the Twisted Log Cabin pieces a while back and came up with so many different designs by using 3 left and 3 right twists. The original Twisted Log Cabin I did uses the same twist for all six...
by Jen | Coffee Talk Saturday, Colourful Friday, Inspirational Sunday, Stash Blasting Wednesday, Story Time Monday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday. Well, I certainly didn’t blast much of my stash with this little piece but I did use up some of the leftovers from a piece I made a couple of years ago. The piece is only 6″ x 6″ and was made for a recent...
by Jen | Colourful Friday, Free Motion Friday, Inspirational Sunday, Technique Tuesday
Hey Everyone, welcome back to Free Motion Friday. I was going to do a post about the dandelions this past Tuesday for Technique Tuesday but then realised that I would be one step ahead in the process because I quilted it before I put the dandelions on. The first step...