I'm going to call this palette “accidental Christmas” or maybe “Christmas-ish”? I wish the entire world was filled with as much color as a Mediterranean  town. I'll tell you, here in the PNW we could...

Featuring Artist: Jessica Poundstone I don't know if color is something that comes ‘naturally' to people, or if it is something that is learned and developed overtime… I'm assuming it's a little bit of both,...

Artist: Sarah Robbins When I moved to Seattle, I had big dreams of becoming a muralist, illustrator, painter, etc-  and quilting really wasn't on my radar as a potential 'career' just yet.  After exploring the...

This month's palette is actually inspired by my Sky Cabin release! I thought the colors I chose for the cover were bright and fun, just in time for the summer heat to be in full...

One place that I've never really thought to look for color inspiration was movies. Maybe it's because I'm actually not really a movie person, or maybe because it didn't strike me as something to even...

As someone living up here in the PNW - April is a hard month. You so desperately want warm weather, sunshine, and to go outside but it's still mostly drab, cold, and rainy. The tulips...

Artist: Colleen Elizabeth Art   When I think of March, I think of GREEN! You can smell spring in the air, trees are starting to grow their leaves again, and there is an underlying excitement...

Artist: Brett Stenson As many of you know, I am obsessed with thrifting! I love going to second-use stores and finding old, vintage, forgotten-about pieces and bringing them into my modern household as if they...

For this month’s Toad-Spo color scheme, I chose to celebrate the Pantone and Kona color of the year - PURPLE! Honestly, I’ve never really been a fan of purple. It’s a harder color to work...

Some of you may already know this, but I regularly work on illustration/design projects for Microsoft. You may be wondering why I’m mentioning a major tech company in my quilting newsletter/blog - well, they’re actually...