Quilt UFOs and the Mid-Year Slump: You’re Not Behind, You’re Just Making
January has a particular kind of energy. The studio feels full of possibility. The project
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A Quilt in One Value Disappears
Take a stack of fabrics that all sit at the same value, piece them into
What Tech Communities Could Learn from Quilt Guilds
Quilters figured out distributed knowledge long before the internet did. The model still holds up.
I Made The AI Quilter’s “Mrs. Banks (2024)” To Help Me Remember Why My Vote Counts
A Guest Post for The AI Quilter, by Cindy Olsen I came to the Mrs.
Why Quilting Is Art, Not Craft: And Why We’ve Been Told Otherwise
Every March, we dust off our “nevertheless, she persisted” (Thank you, Mitch McConnel for that
Water Runs Through Everything We Build
March 22 was World Water Day, and I want to use it to talk about
The Villainization Cycle: What Happens When Creative Communities Let Fear Lead
I didn’t plan to write this post. I had a different one queued up. A
Quilting, Community, and the Work of Justice
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day — January 19 Image from McDill Airforce Base website
What 2025 Taught Me — and What’s Coming Next
As the year winds down, I’ve been reflecting on what we’ve built together — and
Quilters Gift Guide: 7 Places You Can Feel Good About Shopping
Small -Biz Edition, Because Big Box Can Sit This One Out) Quilters are creative. Quilters
Shop Small, Quilt Big: Independent Makers to Support This Thanksgiving
The week of U.S. Thanksgiving has become synonymous with flash sales and algorithmic chaos. But
Why The AI Quilter Is Joining #BlackOutTheSystem: Ethical AI for Artists and Quilters
What #BlackOutTheSystem Has to Do with Ethical AI for Artists and Quilters Art as resistance.
Forget Gratitude. Let’s Talk About Capacity For Resilience.
Let’s just say it: the past year has been A LOT. The world feels like
Quilt Market, Quilt Festival, and “Is It a Hot Flash, or Is It Houston?”
By the end of Quilt Market and Quilt Festival in Houston, I’d started asking myself
Quilts are an Investment: The True Cost of Creating an Heirloom
Quilts are more than just blankets (and p.s., don’t ever say blanket to a quilter).
Quilts, Banned Books, and My Monsters
“Frankenstein” has been banned or challenged repeatedly since it was published in 1918. October brings
