Each night, the kids and I count clouds. The clouds float from our house all the way out beyond the milky way. Sometimes, in the dark, they ask me questions that are hard to answer…

I’ve been very interested in the philosophy of creativity since about mid-2024, and I keep collecting books and resources and ideas, but have yet to really deeply study them.

On my Work-in-Progress wall this week…

For the last few years, I’ve hosted a charity bee in the DC Modern Quilt Guild. This year, I asked if we could try something new and create an all-improv bee - every single prompt will ask quilters in the bee to sew an improvisationally-pieced block…

The question in the back of my head that was repeating on a low hum was "what does a Julia quilt look like?"…

I decided to spend the time exploring working with leftover quilt blocks (from me and others!). It's something I love doing, but more often I take a long time and play with composition and turn it into a quilt for somebody…

I had committed to this thread! And it was Going To Be The Thread For This Project (this is the story I was telling myself, anyway)…

We've had this simple wooden lap loom for a few years, but I've been so quilting-focused I never took off with weaving the way I'd hoped to. The materials in my mystery scrap bag felt so perfect for that…

I have had the incredible pleasure of teaching a longer-form class this spring, Beginner Quiltmaking Series at That’s Sew Hillary here in Frederick. The course takes beginner quilters through each step of the quilting process…

Last spring, I shared a round-up of all of my Works in Progress (WIPs), and the process of reviewing and writing about each one turned out to be so helpful for me! So I’ve decided to do it again, this time on Instagram Quilt Fest WIP day…

I had been eagerly waiting to attend QuiltCon2026 ever since arriving home from QuiltCon in 2024!! The show has such an incredible energy and I find the quilts and conversations so inspiring…

Next month, ​Narrative Quiltmaking Studio​ begins at the Delaplaine Arts Center! This four-week class will include writing exercises and textile technique prompts and guide students on a journey of creating their own original quilt top

My first thought was a map quilt of my town, but showing historical ecological features rather than just the current city grid. But in my search, I wasn’t able to find much in the way of historical ecological mapping at the city scale…

As I read a little bit online about the upcoming new year, I learned that this will be the year of the Fire Horse. When I thought of the colors of fire + my hopes and desires for the near future, the one thing that came to the top of my mind is the colors of the monks’ robes…

The second Project Quilting challenge this year is “Scads of Plaid” and my first instinct was to reach for plaid garments in my thrifted pile…but to my (not so big) surprise, I had very few! I tend to gravitate towards solids…

The first few weeks of the year, I was on a mission to create 12 quilt tops at least 30”x30” each. My inspiration was the “snip and rip” method I learned…

I started the first prompt for Project Quilting this year with a literal clean slate: a blank canvas that has been sitting in my works-in-progress bin just waiting to be wrapped in a quilt…

This year has been an interesting one for me creatively, with lots of inspiration, some time away from sewing, and then an explosion of new ideas and energy as I started teaching at the end of the year…

This month on the Quilty Nook, Cody Cook-Parrott gave a workshop titled Poetics of Shapes. I wasn’t able to attend live, so I watched the replay slowly over several days and it felt deeply resonant…

I started teaching quilting this year with a simple question to my friend Hillary: could I teach a quilting class at your studio?…