by lsmith | Aug 18, 2026 | Patterns
Most children remember being told: no running in the house, no running with scissors, and for goodness sake, stop fooling around. Well — now that we are all grown up, we can spool around all we want! I still wouldn’t recommend running with scissors though. And I...
by lsmith | Aug 18, 2026 | Patterns, Quilting Tips
In my previous life — the one before quilting consumed me entirely — I traveled extensively for work. I found myself in some very unusual places: the bowels of hospitals, maintenance yards for trains, alongside bottling machines for soda, inside nuclear power plants,...
by lsmith | Aug 18, 2026 | Patterns
My first encounter with wildfire came years ago while working at a federal facility in South Carolina. They were performing prescribed burns — controlled fires designed to clear dead foliage and prevent something larger from igniting later. Only this one got a little...
by lsmith | Aug 9, 2026 | Quilting Tips
August is rolling through and the kids are getting ready to go back to school. Mine kids are well past that, but I did get more time to see them this summer! In between those precious visits, I was busy teaching and publishing new patterns for all of...
by lsmith | Jul 17, 2026 | Patterns, Quilting Tips
July is here and I am hiding in the air conditioning! If you are too, there’s something new waiting for you this...
