Stitching Stars Blog Hop: Poppy Power
There’s a group of sewists that attended Sew Pro last year who do regular blog hops, and our theme for Spring was “Blossom”. I was hesitant to sign up to participate since I had a lot going on in first quarter between work and pattern design for The Stitch, but one productive Saturday I threw this little 12″ gem together. I may have a thing for poppies, although I can’t really say why. I have this...
Introducing the Sportsball Quilt!
Between the two of us, Lynn is decidedly a bigger sports fan, so it is with sweet, sweet irony that I (yes, PAM) presents our latest pattern: SPORTSBALL! Yes, I made a sports thing! Lynn is an avid fan of the Tennessee Vols, both for college football and women’s basketball. You’d know that Lynn designed this quilt if all the colors in it were orange, but because they are not, hey, another clue that I designed it! And of...
My Little Tagger: Resistance is Magic
When BadAss Quilters Society announced the Urban Bright challenge, I was in the middle of some sort of fit of Challenge Entry Fever. I cannot figure out what gripped me given all the deadlines we have and knowing that my day job is bananas in the first quarter. But there I was, buying some fabric from Frond Design Studios for this graffiti quilt challenge. Then the fabric arrived and I looked at it and … I had nothing. I was so...
Saying Yes to The Nope! Quilt
When I was designing The Nope! Quilt for our challenge, I knew that although I was designing for a solid panel in the middle of the quilt, I really wanted to see a version with a print fabric in the middle. Granted, the real reason for that was to minimize the need for Super Fancy quilting like I did with the challenge fabric. Generally I’m not a fan of marking anything, and all the “no” signs required a lot of...
Behind the Quilt: Mascots
Over the end of the year break, Pam spent some time paper piecing up a storm and creating these two portraits of Vinnie and Stitch, the Stitch TV Show mascots. To be fair, these remember Glamour Shots more than portraits, although lacking the popped collar and blue eyeshadow from the popular 80’s mall stop. On second thought, Stitch has some green eyeshadow happening. Beyond the paper piecing for the pattern, Stitch the Dragon...
Behind the Quilt: Transform
We’ve been working on a joint project with two other quilters as part of the National Quilt Museum contest, “New Quilts from Old Favorites“. It was a bit of an ouroboros as we designed the recent East Cobb Quilter’s Guild raffle quilt to be inspired by the 2017 “old favorite” block, the flying geese unit. In the process of designing the raffle quilt, we always knew we’d create a second one to...
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