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Welcome to the official start of the Big Ocean Sew Along! I am so excited to create with you all this summer. By now, you have probably seen my fabric prep posts about pulling your color palette and checking the value breakdown of your pull so you have the best fabric palette to start with and build on. Join us tonight for the Zoom kickoff! We’ll meet on Zoom at 4pm PST to talk about our planned color palettes. Bring your fabrics to share if you have them! I look forward to working with you all to help troubleshoot any...

Welcome back for our second week of fabric prep for the Big Ocean Sew Along! If you’re just joining us, check out last week’s post on choosing your color palette. If you enjoyed that post, and you’d like more guidance on choosing a color palette for any of your quilts, be sure to check out my video course, Creating Color Palettes. Now that you have a palette large enough to make your Big Ocean quilt, It’s time to assess the values of the fabrics you’ve chosen. Reorganize your fabrics by value - dark, medium, and light, and see how that...

  Wow! I can't believe that this is the final month of the Traverse BOM! What a wild ride! I know a lot of folks have gotten excited and already sewn their rows together.  When it comes to finishing, my favorite way to finish a quilt is always hand quilting. I love the look of hand quilting. My favorite threads are made by Wonderfil and I carry them over in my shop. They are the perfect weight to give you that lovely texture, but are still thin enough to easily pull through your fabric.  If you're new to hand quilting...

I’m so excited to get started on our Big Ocean Sew Along in just two weeks! We’ll get started with a color party on Zoom. Okay, maybe not exactly a party, but I am looking forward to seeing the colors you choose for your quilt. While we’re together on Zoom, I’ll also help you all troubleshoot any issues you may be having with building your palette. If you haven’t signed up for the sew along yet, click here to join us!  In the weeks leading up to the sew along, I’ll share some of my process for building a color...

I am excited to announce the Big Ocean Sew Along!  We're going to have so much fun playing with color and value, and developing our design skills later this summer. Check out the pattern and video course here, both 20% off this weekend, through July 23rd!  Sign up for the weekly Big Ocean Sew Along newsletter here!  I signed up! Now what? Join me for a Zoom call to officially kick off the Big Ocean Sew Along on Tuesday August 8th! You will get the link and all the details in the Sew Along Newsletter. The sew along will run from the...

The Big Ocean pattern and Video Course are now available in the shop! All PDF patterns and video workshops are 20% off in my shop through Sunday, July 23rd. The pattern comes in three sizes: 40" x 40", 64" x 64", and 96" x 96". Big Ocean Beginnings The Big Ocean Quilt started with a moody palette inspiration and a bucket list quilt. I built on a traditional design that I'd been wanting to work on for awhile. I grabbed my scraps and created a palette that started with dusty purple and black and just kept growing! Eventually I had more than...