Hello, friends! Happy 2020! It’s been a while since I posted here, mostly because of the holidays, life, and, honestly, not spending much time in my sewing space these past few months. Instead, I’ve been channeling my creative energy into a new passion project: building FeelGood Fibers, a marketplace for the exchange of secondhand and pre-loved fabrics. […]
Friends, the day is finally here! I have been working tirelessly behind the scenes like an elf preparing for Christmas Day! I am so thrilled to share that FeelGood Fibers will be launching in 2020!
This short and sweet post is to share a recent finish! Last month, I decided to make a quilt for a dear friend, and together we decided that a Stars Hollow Quilt would be the perfect design.
With so much gorgeous fabric in the world, and new lines of tempting palettes coming out all the time, it’s hard to think about how our fabric choices can have an impact on the world. It seems so complicated to sift through all of the information out there, and to imagine that tiny little me
If you love to listen to podcasts while you sew, then have I got a treat for you! This list of 50 popular podcasts was compiled from the recommendations that you guys shared with me through the Fiber Artists: What Matters Most to You survey and via Instagram. You guys have an awesome range of
If you’ve been reading here for a while, then you probably know, I spent 2018 curating The Creativity Project: Getting to the Heart of “Why” We Quilt. It was an essential step in my own creative process. It helped me to understand the connection our creativity has to our mind, body, and spirt. But the
Hello, hello! Welcome to my stop on the Typecast of Characters tour! So, funny story. . . when Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill of Whole Circle Studio asked me to help celebrate the release of her new Typecast EPP pattern, I was a little bit nervous, but mostly psyched. I had never made anything with EPP before, so
Welcome to the final week of 2018, and the last week of The Creativity Project! Over the past 52 weeks, we’ve come together every Friday with so many amazing artists and makers to try to get to the heart of “why” we create. For 52 weeks, we’ve come to this space with an open heart
This week, I’d like to start with a thank you. To everyone in this community who has read an interview of The Creativity Project, found a new artist to follow, commented on my blog, sent me messages, or recommended this series to a friend – Thank You. When I embarked upon this journey at the
Sam Hunter is a fiber artist and quilt pattern designer. Born in England, Sam split her formative years between Europe and the United States before settling in the USA permanently in 1981. Sam started sewing when she was only seven years old and then began quilting in her late twenties. Shortly thereafter, she started teaching
