English Paper Piecing

When the nice folks at FreeSpirit invited me to be participate in the True Colors blog tour, I wanted to freeze time and make …

Finishing this quilt project came down to the wire as expected, but boy am I happy to be done. Crossing the finish line …

This is what my ArtPrize quilt looked like yesterday morning. It was a box of 127 hand-stitched, paper-pieced hexagon blooms organized by color. …

Thank goodness for this printable hexagonal graph paper. As I work to stitch the final batch of blooms for my ArtPrize quilt, I’ve been …

This bloom was made with a necktie that once belonged to Lewis William Seidman. It was sent to me by his niece, Allison …

I spent Friday afternoon and evening deconstructing neckties and making more hexagon kits for my ArtPrize entry. This is the part of the …

It’s official. I entered ArtPrize 2010, the international art competition based here in Grand Rapids. I’m working on a hexagon quilt called “Power …

I’ve had a great time working with Jennifer Paganelli’s Flower Power prints this week. English paper piecing is a fantastic vacation craft. I’ll …

Today I flew for the first time since 1998. The sky was a wash of orange and pink at sunrise and both the …

This week my craft column is about a talented woman name Jeri Fry who knows how to make the most of her fabric …