I have two new designs uploaded to Spoonflower.com - for anyone who wants a little free-motion quilting practice! The first is my inaugural set of Flow Sheet designs - for practicing free-motion spirals, feathers and meandering. The above photo shows what you get on a Fat Quarter sized print. See it on Spoonflower here ! Of course, this is just to make things easier for those who don't want to print the Flow Sheets thempselves at home (like I've been doing on my inkjet print

In the past couple of years I've gotten excited about ceramics and gelli plates and...encaustic painting. Encaustic paint is made by adding pigments to beeswax (with a bit of tree resin added to firm up the wax). Some of the things I love about encaustic include the sense of texture and depth, the movement of the wax from solid to liquid and back to solid, and the endless chances for reworking and interacting with the surface. I appreciate the more natural materials and reduc

Wow it's been 2 years since I posted! Work got busy, and there's a lot of kids in this house. Good reasons for sure! But it was a challenge for my Free-Motion Circle website and I'm happy to announce that we've gotten refreshed over there! If I play my cards right that means I'll have more posts to share here. In that spirit, here's what's happened at Free-Motion Circle recently: I shared a printable design that can be printed onto fabric and quilted for a quick bit of FMQ p