Usually, every order I receive from Missouri Star has a little "Chuck" included with the order. I'm getting quite a collection, with little Chucks for every season! I used an extra Chuck as a pattern to create a quick little wool needle-keep to accompany my cute new sewing tin!
I decided to try a flange binding and used a tutorial by Jenny at Missouri Star. My quarter inch sewing was a little "fat", so the flange is not quite as wide as I prefer, but I do like the result. My first and favorite block, before and after quilting. Closeups of Great Barrier...
Missouri and Oklahoma to this point have been very lush and green. OK remains green and pretty, but the weather was warming up significantly. Keep in mind that this is May, 2016. It’s mid-Spring, so for me, temps in the 80’s are getting pretty warm (remember that I left Denver i...
It’s a great way to make new friends and share your love of quilting. These pages list quilt guild information as submitted by their members. Here you will find complete information on quilt guilds near you – a meeting place, days and times, dues, the number of members, interest in ta...
After earning my computer graphics degree from the University of Missouri in 1988, I spent my professional career working in television designing both print and on-air graphics for local news stations. Sarah Whitney, The Designer at Sweet Clover Canyon. My grandmother had been a skilled quilter....
I hope I can finish Minnesota this month. Mississippi will follow it with the wonderful state of Missouri (where I was born) after that! I am also staying up to date on my temperature quilt. I can’t believe January is over and we’re through the first week of February already. Time...
and Cerinthy Ann even went so far as to horrify her mother by saying that she wished she’d been educated in a convent herself, a declaration which arose less from native depravity than from a certain vigorous disposition, which often shows itself in young people, to shock the current opini...
With their theatrical makeup, wild costumes, and pyrotechnics-filled stage shows, members of the band Kiss seem like the ultimate rock stars. So fans might be surprised to hear Gene Simmons sing that he wants to "rock and roll all night" and only "part of every day." But the truth is...
I’ll show you how the classic star block shows up in my modern quilt pattern designs.You just might want to make a star quilt pattern of your own. Star quilt patterns may have only one larger-version block (easy fabric requirements) and up to dozens. I like to take one block, enlarg...
Deruta, by Suzanne Marshall of Clayton, Missouri. She notes that Deruta is a town in Italy well-known for its hand-painted pottery (yep–I’ve been there!), and that her quilt was inspired by some plates she has with beasts on them. ...