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?…

In July 2024, I joined Zak Foster’s Quilty Nook, in part because I felt so intrigued by the Destroy This Quilt (DTQ) project that people in the community were doing…

I’ve made large quilts before that I thought would come out beautifully, but when they were finished the colors just didn’t blend well together! Over time, one trick I’ve learned is to make small color studies…

On November 28, Give Rise Studio will be hosting a Make It Market in Downtown Frederick, and I’m delighted to host one of the projects that attendees can choose to make! We will be making Tiny Wish Quilts…

2025 has not been a year of big quilts for me - I’ve been making lots of small pieces and really enjoying that. But there’s something so exhilarating about getting an idea for a new BIG quilt, and recently I got inspired to start one…

I had the distinct pleasure of hosting an experiential city-to-fabric workshop through my friend Hillary’s studio and the afternoon had such a lovely flow to it…

One of the things I’m noticing I really enjoy as a quilter is puzzling parts together - I love the challenge of finding ways to make a bunch of pieces fit…

Every year, my local quilt guild, the Clustered Spires Quilt Guild, hosts a challenge for members to create a quilt on a chosen theme. This year, the theme was “create a quilt that illustrates your favorite song.” It surprised me how challenging it was to come up with which song I wanted to use for my quilt!

My newest workshop offering, Worn to Warm: Upcycle Garments to Quilt Blocks was directly inspired by…

As quilters are making, very often stray quilt blocks accumulate - blocks that are slightly off, blocks that don’t end up being made into a quilt, or blocks that lose their interest for the quilter…

This fall I am joining my friend Hillary’s studio and my upcoming October workshops are live on her site! The first workshop, Hand Quilted Scrappy Mini Quilt, will be a combination of fast piecing and slow stitching…

I’ve been a member of the DC Modern Quilt Guild almost since I started quilting (2022), and during my second year in the guild, we started a Charity Quilting Bee initiative. The bee consists of small groups of 6-8 quilters in bees all around our region. We take turns…

I’m experiencing my first-ever slow down in my quilting process and production. Ever since I started quilting in 2022, I’ve felt so singularly focused on what’s next, chomping at the bit to sit and sew on whatever is pulling my mind. A few things have been going on for us lately…