Welcome to Week #18 of the MODA BLOCKHEADS SEW ALONG! Hello on this beautiful Friday in Northern California! We finally have a day of sunshine after many gloomy chilly ones! This week we are back around to the infamous Jan Patek with her fabulous primitive styled applique. Check out her lovely applique block through her link HERE and download the pattern directions. If applique just isn’t your thing or you just don’t have the time or energy to work on a technique that is not “in your wheel house”… we did a cute…
Welcome to Week #17 of the MODA BLOCKHEADS SEW ALONG! Hope everyone is doing well sheltering in place or slowly starting to unshelter depending on where you are?! This week we are back around to the sweet Betsy Chutchian. Check out her lovely block CROSSROADS through her link HERE and download the pattern directions. Have I mentioned that I actually LOVE flying geese! Our version, here above, has some of our all time favorite red and cream prints in it and a little bit of FUSSY CUTTING for those large tapestry feeling medallions too. We made the 8″ version…
Welcome to AT HOME WITH MODA today! It is a little bit surreal to think that right about now, those of us in the quilt industry would be getting ready for Quilt Market. There would be the stress of finishing up quilts, making up booth props, coordinating shipping and last minute marketing materials, maybe even picking out a new dress for the infamous MODA Market party :-). I have to be honest… it is always with a mix of both excitement and a little dread that May rolls around each year and all of our l ives shift into “…
Welcome to Week #16 of the MODA BLOCKHEADS SEW ALONG! So this is the second week of the second round… it never ceases to amaze me how quickly and slowly these quarantine weeks are going… don’t you think? This week we are back to Ms. Sherri. Check out her lovely block DREAM through her link HERE and download the pattern directions. Our version, here below, has some of our all time favorite red and cream prints in it. A super simple block that is just really lovely and a great addition to our sew along. In…
Hello Guys! I have received so many requests and questions about Catalina related solids lately that I thought it was most definitely time to do a post about all things CATALINA SOLIDS! First of all let me start off by saying that I design from colors in my head… or in my mind’s eye, from nature, from a vintage inspiration and not from my swatch card. Sometimes that is a lovely thing to do as an artist and it is just the way my process works but sometimes… like in this case when I am trying…
