New offerings on Free-Motion Circle include the above FMQ Flow Sheet for free-motion quilting meandering practice, and the process I followed to make the hand stitching below. This would be a fun practice to return to monthly or quarterly and my mind is whirring with the possibilities. Remember that members of Free-Motion Circle get free access to my live classes (we've got one coming in June) as well as the entire library of classes, patterns and designs!

I have two new designs uploaded to Spoonflower.com - for anyone who wants a little free-motion quilting practice! The first is my inaugural set of Flow Sheet designs - for practicing free-motion spirals, feathers and meandering. The above photo shows what you get on a Fat Quarter sized print. See it on Spoonflower here ! Of course, this is just to make things easier for those who don't want to print the Flow Sheets thempselves at home (like I've been doing on my inkjet print

In the past couple of years I've gotten excited about ceramics and gelli plates and...encaustic painting. Encaustic paint is made by adding pigments to beeswax (with a bit of tree resin added to firm up the wax). Some of the things I love about encaustic include the sense of texture and depth, the movement of the wax from solid to liquid and back to solid, and the endless chances for reworking and interacting with the surface. I appreciate the more natural materials and reduc