Shot cottons are amazing. They are a type of weave that read as a solid. They are woven using two different colors of thread along the warp and along the weft. When you weave the different colors it gives a radiance to the fabric like nothing else. The fabric changes as you move, and as it moves. It doesn’t change color, rather, it changes the intensity and the appearance ever

If you have never ever worked with shot cottons, or you have but it’s been awhile, you need to revisit them or start soon. What are Shot Cottons? Well, first off, I want to show you the quilt that I made recently for Studio e Fabrics. I designed this quilt. It’s called Roaring 20s. There was little to be excited about at the beginning of 2020, and things seemed to

Here are my decision trees from my lecture on Quilts for Scrap Lovers, Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers and Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers. You can feel free to direct people to my site and help them to understand these if you have seen one of my lectures. I love nothing more than to help people make sense of the scrap disorganization that eventually ensues when working with piles of

Here’s a simple, quick idea. I love table runners, and I wax poetic about them all the time. The reason for this is because I am not a good cook, but I can set a pretty table. After you clean up your kitchen, and you set a table runner on the table, it’s a little treat for you every time you round that corner into the kitchen. My daughter came

So for now, I am just calling this Barb’s table runner. It’s a beaut isn’t it? When my striped fabric from Studio e first came out, I was so excited to see how many fabrics it worked well with. I was shocked at the number of gorgeous fabrics that it went with. It goes with so many of the Free Spirit fabrics. It’s perfect with Tula Pink’s Linework, and it’s

This door banner couldn’t be cuter or simpler. All you need are the following: Cut your Santa panel so that it is squared up. It can be a rectangle or a square, but make sure that the corners are square using a quilting ruler. Measure the bottom of the Santa panel. From the solid red: Cut a rectangle that is 8” wide x the length of the bottom measurement of

With this quilt, you start with a center square and just work your way out. I want to explain how this quilt is done. It’s so simple I feel like I could just say to someone “just start with a square and keep on bordering it until it’s the right size”. However, that wouldn’t be very nice of me, and even though it’s true, there are some things that are

This is the perfect opportunity to learn to make something simple. You will enjoy being able to attend class, well, in your pjs! Yes! On December 6th and 7th, we will have a zoom class on how to make pajama bottoms. On the first night, we will be doing basic cutting. You can work along or record this and do it on your own. Or you can just watch and

Instead of waiting for good news, let’s create some. Last year, Cathy Roeder and I took quilts down to the border for the refugee camps. There are still hundreds of people living on the border in some very sad conditions. You could make a family very happy and warm this Christmas by making some whole cloth, or very near whole cloth quilts. All you need to do is get the

I like to mix it up on the back of my quilts. I often have large pieces of fabric that I decide to use on the back of a quilt instead of using new fabrics. Sometimes, often times, I combine them with seriously fun fabrics and just make the back an improvisational piece. Sometimes the quilt backings are only a couple of inches larger around the edges than the actual