My brother and his wife welcomed their 7th bundle of joy into the world in April! Poppy Pascale was the inspiration for this little blanket. Her name lives on both sides of the quilt - flowers for the Poppy part and the cross for the Pascale part. (The root of the name is Latin for …
My cousin Sonya recently asked me to help her piece together some little curtains for her kitchen window. She wanted something cute with a vintage vibe that offered a little visual privacy but still let in light. She had a box of fabric scraps that included old napkins and tea towels. We started in the …
Earlier this year, as the pandemic tsunami was making its way around the world, my cousin and her husband finalized their second adoption. They flew to Korea during the height of lockdowns in May and somehow managed to come home with their son. Since I was getting ready to leave South Africa in June, I …
Some projects are difficult to date. They are such a long journey. This quilt is technically my first art quilt because I started it first. Autobiography began much later but it happened much faster, so it crossed that finish line first and got posted first. Still, the evolution of this quilt was the broader context …
A friend from church had a baby a few months before COVID hit. Then lockdown happened and I had lots of time to make a baby blanket. I couldn't go out and buy fabric, so I texted her some color palette options from my stash and she chose this blue and gold shweshwe set. I …
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