Some ideas to inspire your quilting:
*Try a small project, like a fabric postcard, for a new project.  Then you’ll know whether you want to do something larger or try something completely different.
*Post photos of your quilting projects in an album, starting with your older ones and coming forward.  It might be interesting to see if you’ve changed your style at all.
*Take photos of your quilting projects and use them for postcards and business cards. These can inspire you and others.
*Visit quilting web sites to see what’s new and what’s going on in the quilting/fabric art world.
*Attend quilt exhibits and meet …read more

Thinking about my daughter’s mini quilt album, inspired me finally to put together an album about my Trails End Quilters heritage.  I’ve been researching my Trails End ancestry and the quilters who lived on this farm that was in my mother’s family for nearly 200 years.
My grandmother, Emma Tipple, who taught me quiltmaking when I was 8 years old, married Burton Coon in the early 1900s and lived the rest of her life on the farm.  As my daughter and granddaughter have taken up quiltmaking and fabric art, I began to realize we came from a family of quilters…if they didn’t quilt, …read more

“I need a small scrapbook,” my daughter announced, as she browsed through my scrapbooking supplies.  “It should be small enough to carry in my purse.”
I had a 4 x 5-inch album she thought would work perfectly.  Then Beth explained further.  She posts photos of her quilts, hangings, and works-in-progress on her blog (http://meanderingthreads.blogspot.com) and has many photos saved on her computer and in a larger photo album.
“But I need a small album to carry with me to show people when they ask about my fabric art.”
What a neat idea, I thought. 
When I had a quiltmaking business, I developed an album with …read more