When I watched the advanced trailer for our October Adventure Workshop in Ireland, my eyes started to well up halfway through. The film wasn’t finished. It wasn't color-corrected. There wasn’t...
There is much excitement at Quiltfolk’s Adventure Workshops HQ in England as we piece together the patchwork puzzle of quilts in the life of one of the world’s greatest children’s...
To our surprise, some kind of “Sunbonnet Spell” cast over our studio as we started scouring for fabrics that could tell our story with a child-like wonder. We laughed at...
Ah, stories. We crave them as children. We relish them as adults, as evidenced by bookstores and movie theaters—both of which exist for the sole purpose of telling stories. Technically...
For me, as I was growing up, cinematography was all about drama, explosions, and action— throw in the occasional romance and you have the perfect James Bond movie. But my...
The video below shares a glimpse into the preparation for Dutch Discoveries: Quilting A Thousand Flowers, our fifth Adventure Workshop, which premieres January 26 & 27. Although the video is...
If 900 tiny acrylic triangles sounds like a lot—that’s because it is! And, to my surprise, each template needed to be carefully punched out of acrylic sheets, separated, have tape removed from...
Every quilter (and quilt block!) is unique, but it is easy to fall into making projects that feel generic—and to form quilting habits that provide comfort, but not necessarily true...
“It was cold … brutally cold.” I borrowed that line from Undaunted Courage, a book I read as a kid about Lewis and Clark traversing North America. Because that's exactly...
