Stamp carving can be used as inspiration for blocks, quilting or border patterns. I discovered some fascinating designs during a Stamp Carving for Quilters workshop with Maggie Weiss.

We wrap our series on design exercise #1 this week with the last of our five designers, Kathy K. Wylie.

This week, we present the fourth designer in our series: Karen Menzies.

We feature the work of Joyce O’Connell this week, the third of our five designers.

We continue our series this week with the second of our five designers: Marnie Mascioli.

Design exercise 1 has been completed and here are the results from the first of our five designers: Hilary Rice.

Over the next year, a group of fellow quilters will be completing exercises from the book Fearless Design for Every Quilter and I will be sharing our progress here with you. Let me introduce the members of our group.

Fearless Design for Every Quilter, by Lorraine Torrence and Jean B. Mills (C&T Publishing 2009), is like a class in a book.  In fact, the book is based on a design class that Lorraine has taught since 1997.  Meeting for three hours once a month, students in this nine-month-long workshop learn design elements and principles [...]