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I first got into quilting by making quilts to donate. For over 20 years I was the director of the Bright Hopes Collaborative Quilt Project which I founded with my mother. We decided to close Bright Hopes last year (a difficult decision, but it was the right time) after many years of running programs and donating hundreds of quilts.

So when Stacey from Stacey Lee Creative asked me about joining the Quilt Donation Drive blog hop, I was thrilled to be back at what I did for so long. The Quilt Donation Drive collects handmade quilts to comfort children entering foster care. The quilts are donated through Comfort Cases.  Comfort Cases is a nonprofit that provides backpacks filled with essentials—and love—to children entering the foster care system across the U.S. You can find out all of the details HERE!

I love making dolls, softies and other small projects! One key to being happy with your results is to learn to sew lovely curves for arms, legs, tails, ears, and all sorts of appendages.

It's the Night Rainbow Blog Hop! I am so excited about his collection. I have always thought that dark colors are underrated. The unsung heroes of the color palette. They are experts at showing off the lights and brights. 

One of the things I love most about designing a fabric collection is figuring out all of the things I can make with it! My new collection, Hothouse, has SO many possibilities!

Quilts are a given, but I love small projects as well. Here are 2 types of pincushions I made. One uses Hothouse fabric directly and the other is influenced by the motifs in Hothouse. I love translating designs from one material to another!

It’s a Rainbow Quilt REDUX! The first Rainbow Quilt was designed in 2018 as part of Sew a Softie month. I had made a cloud pillow project and knew that a rainbow quilt HAD to be made to go with the clouds. You can find the first Rainbow Quilt tutorial HERE. Now I have reimagined that quilt in the Hothouse fabric collection I designed for Windham Fabrics!