by Jen | Inspirational Sunday, Scrap Quilts, Stash Blasting Wednesday
An orphan block is a block that didn’t get used in a quilt – it could be one leftover block or it could be many. It could be a block that was used to test out a design, size of pieces or a set of fabrics and colours to see how they looked together....
by Jen | Inspirational Sunday, Memory Quilts, Stash Blasting Wednesday, Story Time Monday, Sustainability
What do you do with old linens especially ones that have been embroidered on by a loved one. I had this bag of embroidered pieces to do something with so in November 2020 I pulled them out and added them to the big stash of fabrics I took to my pandemic abode for the...
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...