Archive for October, 2009

I’m off to San Francisco for the weekend! Anywhere other than Urban Burp, Satin Moon and Britex Fabrics that I should hit up?? Hope you all have great weekends!

So much quilt to baste!

You know you’re obsessed with fabric when you have a dream that your one yard of gray Kei Dots was exposed to the H1N1 virus and you’re being required to mail it to the CDC.  Yes.  I actually had that dream. It was more of a nightmare, really!  I’m sure that you readers can understand. [...]

Thank you all so much for all of your kind comments about the book!  The response makes me so happy. It just reinforces all of the ideas behind the book concept.  It’s going to keep me super busy over the next few months so you’ll have to forgive me if the blog mellows as a [...]

Some very happy news out of my world today! I’m thrilled to announce that I will be writing a book with Kristen, my co-host of Block Party and we are so excited. C & T Publishing will publish it and it’s going to be about YOU!  Ok, well, maybe not you specifically, but about all [...]

So fall was here. And then it got replaced by summer again. LA weather is weird. Anyhow – to stay in the fall spirit I quickly whipped up this pillow sleeve. The deer get all the props in Lush, but you can’t deny the trees!   That said, I couldn’t leave the deer out entirely… I’m [...]

Some blocks for two of the bees I’m in… Some wonky stars for 12 Squared. and some houses for Sew Connected 2!  You’ve seen the dog before, it’s just taken me forever to get to making the second little house.  Let’s pretend that the wind blew the roof to one side a bit. Happy weekend!

You are perfect. Love,  Alissa

We had our first meeting for the LAMQG last night. It was so much fun! Such a wonderful group of people who love to chat about quilting as much as I do. 20 of us at our very first meeting! Oh the fabric shopping, block making, workshop having, and quilting quilting quilting we’re going to [...]

A couple of questions came up about what my process of designing my latest quilt top is. The title of this post pretty much sums it up how I work.  I tend to wing it quite a bit! It started like this… Just a few random blocks that I made with no idea about how [...]