If you don’t know the world of improv piecing quilt blocks, it is a gloriously freeing experience that gets me all zen-like and makes me feel like a painter with fabric. In a nutshell, I have a general idea of what I want the final image to be (in this instance a poinsettia) and I…
Author: Mathew Boudreaux
Embroidered Ornament Tutorial
So I have a confession to make. Prior to this project, I had never done machine embroidery, nor did I think I would be interested. And like it took me like 80 years (not really like a month or so) to finally open the embroidery box to my DreamWeaver™ XE because I thought it would…
Beanies Beanies Beanies: Tutorial
To be honest, my desire to make beanies may have partially been motivated by the recent realization that I’m losing my hair. But mostly, every year, as winter approaches, I always tell myself that I’m going to make beanies, but then I don’t. So then I tough it out until my head gets super cold…
Blithe Molehills Quilt
Okay so deadlines are gross. And sewing propelled by anxiety of such deadlines is even grosser. It totally sucks the joy out of sewing for me and has led me to start unconsciously pulling out my hair out, so like I’m trying to limit my sewing deadlines as much as possible because I’d like to…
Playground Hexie Pillows
Snap. Crackle. Pop. From start to finish, these hexie pillows using Amy Sinibaldi‘s Playground Fabrics were a stream of consciousness journey that I never would’ve predicted would have ended so stunningly. All I knew when I began was that I wanted a project that used the entire collection. And upon closer inspection, the collection was…