Today is my 39th birthday (SO close to the big one), and what better way to celebrate than with a quilt pattern release! I’m so excited to introduce the latest in my collection of beginner-level, precut-friendly patterns, the Strip Dash quilt!

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! It feels like we’ve had a number of iterations of the rainbow theme recently, so this week, I thought I’d zero in on (mostly) a single color — my favorite color — blue. Honestly, this palette started in a totally different direction, but it wanted to take me somewhere else, and I listened.

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! Expanding on last week’s chat about building on an inspiration color, this week’s palette was built from an inspiration print. This is such an easy way to build a palette and a wonderful way for newbies who aren’t confident in their color sense to get started. I began with the fabulous flower print from Rifle Paper Co.

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! Today’s palette is a lesson in building on an inspiration fabric or color. I am a huge fan of this fabulous blue-gray color that’s been very popular in fabrics the last few years. But how do I make a palette out of one color?

As you may have guessed from my Fabric Palette Friday posts, I love color, so I wanted to share a few ideas for finding color inspiration. So many quilters (new and old alike) struggle with putting together palettes or finding color schemes that work well together. If you’re looking for someone with a good eye to give you ideas you can trust, there are plenty of places to go (thank you, Internet!).

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! Shortly after I came home from QuiltCon, I started working on a simple quilt design that needed just the right fabric to elevate it to the look I was going for. This week’s palette is that fabric.

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! For this week’s pattern, we’re headed to the wayback machine, pulling out a palette I created for a sew along several years ago but sadly never used. It may be one of my favorites ever, and it’s a darn shame it hasn’t made it into a very happy project yet. I may have to find a way to remedy that very soon.

As you probably know by now, I love making pincushions, especially small ones (evidence here and here to start). But once I brought my Maker’s Heart paper-piecing pattern into existence, the obsession has gone up a whole other notch. Heart pinnies galore around here!

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! I’m so excited about this elegant spread, which I’ve been happily cutting into for my next pattern. You know I fell in love with the Ruby Star Society First Light collection for my Heart of Hearts cover quilt, but that one largely left out the wonderful neutrals in the collection. This time, they get to shine alongside that citron color that I can’t ever get enough of.

The smallest block from the Maker’s Heart block pattern can be used in any number of applications, from pincushions to zipper pouches to sampler quilts. But with a certain heart-filled holiday just around the corner, I thought I’d pop one onto the front of a card for a sweet handmade Valentine.

Just in time for Valentine’s, introducing the Maker’s Heart pattern! After making my Heart of Hearts quilt pattern, I couldn’t get the block out of my brain and kept dreaming of how cute it would be in mini form (because everything’s cuter when you shrink it, right?). And a tiny heart deserves to be nestled into a tiny pincushion, so I couldn’t resist offering you two options for that as well.⁣

While working on the test quilts for my Heart of Hearts pattern, I got the idea to add a little something to the binding. I love to do big-stitch binding because it’s quick and easy and adds another noticeable handmade touch to my quilts, but I wanted to incorporate another element into the binding to make it even more special. So I thought, why not hearts? I was so pleased with the result that I put together a little video to show you how to do it, too!

It’s time for a roundup of the other test quilts that went into making the Heart of Hearts pattern! The cover quilt is sweet and pink, but if that’s not your thing, no worries because the pattern can go in so many directions.

To celebrate the release of the Heart of Hearts pattern, I've partnered with Havel’s Sewing for a Valentine's giveaway over on Instagram! And because we all know that quilty friends are the best friends, the winner and a friend of their choice will both receive a $60 gift credit to Havel's so you can pick whatever quilty tools you want — rotary cutters, scissors, rulers, cutting mats — they're all in play!

Sewing creates a lot of scraps. I’ve always been one to hold on to almost every scrap I make, but of course, more often than not, they just wind up in a scrap basket and are never touched or seen from again. When I was working on the quilts for my Heart of Hearts pattern, I noticed the cutest little pile of color scraps accumulating on the corner of my cutting mat and knew it was the perfect opportunity to make some precious little pincushions.

With plenty of time left to create your very own Valentine’s quilt for someone special — especially if that someone is you! — I’m so excited to release my newest pattern, Heart of Hearts!

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! We seem to have finally settled into winter this week, with lots of gray all around, so I decided to bring a little spring into this week’s palette. These fabrics feel so fresh right now.

If you’re a member of the Modern Quilt Guild, you may have noticed the new article of mine that was published in this month’s MQG Journal. It’s all about the process of sewing secret quilts for members of sewing groups.

Happy new year and happy return to Fabric Palette Friday! It feels good to be back. I’m not going to lie; we’ve had a rough first few weeks of 2022. With everything going on, it felt particularly nice to pull together this beautiful rainbow of solids for a baby version of my next pattern, Heart of Hearts! This stack mixes a range of Art Gallery Pure solids and Kona solids, and it’s bringing me life right now.

If you’re anything like me, most years, you’re guilty of piling your holiday-sewing task list so high you’re destined for failure, either because you can’t get to it all and end up feeling disappointed or because you do get it all done, but you’re too exhausted to enjoy most of it. Phew. Thankfully, I was a little better this year, hoping to sew only a small number of items (and nothing that would be too big a deal if it didn’t get done), which ended up leaving me a little time to sew these cuties together for some good friends — and to put together a little tutorial so you can do the same!