I am a lover of crafts to my very core. I am skilled at: sewing, knitting, crochet, quilting, cross-stitch, scrapbooking, card making, cake decorating and cooking. The only areas of the craft store I don't frequent are: fine art, floral and jewelry.

For now, my sewing space is also my home office/studio. From there, I run a stationery business, work as a marketing consultant and churn out as many quilty things as I possibly can.

My design preference is modern interpretation of vintage pattern design. I love cathedral windows, grandmothers garden and dresden plates. I am also drawn to basic geometric patterns and shapes. I love using white in my quilts whenever possible. If I had to describe my style, it would be simple, clean and modern.

I'm a matchy-matchy kind of person. I don't like to mix fabrics from different collections, so I'm not a big fan of scrappy quilts. I believe rules are essential to many areas of life, but quilting/crafting isn't one of them. I don't do hand-work because it is too slow and not fun. If you want binding attached by hand, I'm not your girl. My least favorite part of quilting is the piecing, so I don't have UFO's. My favorite part of quilting is admiring my work when it's complete. Next to that, quilting and binding are my favorite parts of the process.

Favorite Fabric Designers:

Kate Spain

Bonnie & Camille

Sweetwater

Chez Moi

Cosmo Cricket

October Afternoon

Ann Kelle

Sandy Gervais

Fabric Loves:

Verna

Bliss

Countdown to Christmas

Pure

Sunkissed

Ruby

Hunky Dory

Sophie

Flurry

12 Days of Christmas

Fruitcake

Farm Fresh

Color Loves:

Pink & Green

Pool Blue & Dark Brown

Red & Aqua

Generally, I love bright colors set against a bold neutral (very dark or very light). I appreciate all colors, but tend to be drawn to the color combos I've mentioned above.

Supplies and Tools:

45 & 60mm Rotary Blades (Fiskars)

Frixxion Pens

Other Loves:

Peanut m&m's

Take 5 Candy Bars

Black Cherry Kool-Aid

Coke Zero

Peppermint Mochas from Starbucks

Ric-Rac

I don't love:

Batiks

Loud/busy prints (Kaffe Fassett, Tula Pink, Amy Butler, Anna Maria Horner)

Character/cartoon prints