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L’Shanah Tova (Happy New Year)

September 14, 2015

Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. We’re dipping apples in honey for a sweet new year, eating round challah, and reflecting on the year that’s gone by and the year that’s now beginning. L’Shanah Tovah.

Filed Under: Studio Updates

Pattern in Progress

September 2, 2015

I’m working on a new pattern for a little owl. This will actually be my first print pattern! It’ll be a two-sided card and should be ready in a few months. I wanted this owl to be a project you could make in an hour and hold in the palm of your hand – a… 

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Sewing and Creative Business News from Around the Web This Week

August 28, 2015

Lots going on in the world of sewing and creative business this week. 1. Stitch magazine emailed contributors this week to announce that it’s folding. Artists and Makers, another F+W magazine, will also cease publication. Print publishing in craft and how-to is in upheaval for sure, although Missouri Star Quilt Company’s print magazine, Block, seems… 

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Filming an Online Class with Annie’s

July 17, 2015

I flew out to Berne, Indiana on Tuesday morning to film an online class with Annie’s. This class sorta fell into my lap. In September of last year I wrote a blog post showing a fresh sample I’d sewn of my topsy turvy doll and a book editor left a comment asking if I might… 

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Patchwork Elephant Pattern: Coming Soon!

July 3, 2015

Two weeks ago I gave away 12 bags of fabric. I’ve been collecting fabric for 10 years and in that time my sewing interests have shifted and shifted again. In 2005 I didn’t have any fabric at all. Hearing that I was beginning to learn to sew, my mother-in-law gave me a pile of fabric… 

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Round-Up of Sewing and Creative Business News This Week

June 26, 2015

Vanessa Vargas Wilson of the Crafty Gemini has a new YouTube channel with Missouri Star Quilt Company. It’s called Crafty Gemini Creates and there will be a new video released every Wednesday. I love that Missouri Star is bringing in diverse YouTube talent. On a side note, I’m writing an article about Vanessa for Artists… 

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An Article About Penny Gold’s Quilt In Generation Q

June 20, 2015

I didn’t attend QuiltCon in February, but I eagerly watched it unfold on Instagram. Over and over again in my feed I saw an incredibly moving quilt. All white with stark black lettering, it read, “I am a woman whose child is dead.” This quilt stirred up intense emotions of sadness among the show’s attendees,… 

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A Pillow for Roxanne

June 5, 2015

Our eldest daughter, Roxanne, is getting ready to begin middle school in the fall. She asked if over the summer we could redo her bedroom to make it more grown up. Down came the alphabet poster. Up in the attic went many of the old stuffed animals. She chose aqua and gray as a new… 

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Sewing News from Around the Web This Week

May 8, 2015

Missouri Star Quilt Company was named the National Small Business of the Year by President Obama today. What an incredible honor. The rural one-stoplight downtown of Hamilton, Missouri was full of vacant buildings when the Doan family bought an abandoned antique shop in 2012 to start a fabric store. Today, Hamilton is a tourist destination… 

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On Becoming a Freelance Writer

April 29, 2015

I had a terrible high school education. Despite getting straight A’s at an award-winning high school in a wealthy suburb of Washington D.C., my classes weren’t rigorous and I didn’t develop a lot of basic skills. The school was large and there was a lot of cheating. I was well-behaved. I turned in all of… 

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