It was a stormy spring, that spring of 2010. And that rainy season became my personal inspiration for many things that year. To begin, I wanted to make a drawing that would be suitable to turn into a pattern and become ‘the big picture’ so to speak! To see if it would ‘bloom’ … into a quilt. That spring I …
Necessary Notion — Tear Away Stabilizer
This is about a stabilizer that I think is a great plus in anyone’s sewing notion resources. And I’ve played with more leaves! More paintstiks. A new colorway. Instead of a trapunto technique, I’ve used a tear-a-way stabilizer under each leaf motif, and then free motioned the quilting on top. Careful! Even tho this product is easy to tear away, …