Guiding you to quilt with confidence. 

 
 
“Holly Anne is an amazing person & a motivating & talented teacher. She is funny, smart, encouraging & has really lit my fire to get sewing again. Will be back for more classes. Timely feedback during the course. Special challenges were fun and kept me on task . Thank you SO much!!!”
— Karen R.
“Very motivational videos. I feel so encouraged to try new things and get quilting!”
— Becky J.
“Just did the How To Make A Quilting Plan class. ABSOLUTELY worth every penny. I was completely terrified to even take the first step towards designing the quilting on my quilts, and so I had always done all over designs or pantographs. I’m excited now to start working on the design for my block of the month sampler from last year!”
— Mel B.
What’s your favorite part of making a quilt? 🤷🏽‍♀️ . . Mine might surprise you, you know, because I’m a rule breaker and everything. 😏 My favorite part is getting the quilt dirty for the first time. 😂 first time on the ground, first crumbs, that first slosh of coffee. (I know, I hear some of you in the back gasping in horror) Why is that my favorite, though? Because then that quilt is FREE. Free to be loved and squished and covered in cat hair and crumbs. Free to be a quilt. It’s kind of like the Velveteen Rabbit, you know? Love the life into it. ❤️ . . Oh, and you too, babe— embrace the spilled coffee, and the crumbs, and the bed head. Set yourself free from perfection and making it through the to do list and love the life into the people, experiences, and quilts around you this week. Carpe that Diem, baby! 😂💃🏽 . . So— what IS your favorite part of making a quilt? 😆 . . (Quilt shown is Lanterns of Hope— pattern available in my shop)
HOORAY for sunny days, and fall colors, and spontaneously jumping in the car for an adventure, and finally starting to feel better, and how much I love the Winter Hexagon Collection, and an amazing, encouraging community like you! 🎉 . . What are you celebrating today? 💃🏽
As a kid, I HATED group projects. But as a quilter, maker, and business owner, collaboration is my favorite! It took until I was all grown up to see how “two is better than one” applied to creativity. . . Last week, I quilted two antique beauties for my aunt and uncle. The tops were anywhere from seventy-five to a hundred years old, by my Uncle’s reckoning, hand pieced by his grandmother. The work she started all those years ago will now be Christmas quilts for my cousins. 🎄 . . Piecer - longarmer, like me finishing these quilts, is a common collaboration in our quilty world, but have you thought about pattern writer - quilt maker and teacher - student as collaborations too? They’re two of my favorites and the two ways I most often get to collaborate with YOU. 💃🏽 You choose different colors than I would when you make my patterns, and you take the free motion quilting motifs I teach, and you make them your own. I LOVE IT. Thank you for all the creativity you bring to our collaborations! 😍I LOVE seeing your versions of my quilts and your blossoming free motion quilting skills. 🎉 . . Have you ever thought of patterns and classes as a collaboration ms before? What excites you about that idea? Tell me in the comments! 👇🏼 . . (Special holla to @aurifilthread forty-three and @hobbsbatting supreme cotton for making these beauties perfection 😍)
I cried from self-pity this morning. I mean, really, is there anything less attractive than that? 🤦🏽‍♀️ I’ve had this darn virus for days. My throat hurts like knives. The whole mess morphed into pink eye this morning. But the real low point isn’t being sick— it’s succumbing to the discouragement that leads to self-pity. I stomped my foot to myself and sat down and cried because I wanted to feel good today. I wanted to let my kids pick a fun activity for this morning and have enough energy to be present and joyful. I wanted to sew this afternoon. Festus and Archimedes are back from shop, and I’m eager to give them a spin. I want to keep longarming Sirius. I want I want I want. Me me me. UGH. Forgive my selfishness and self-pity, my friends. It’s unbecoming and it doesn’t help anyone, but it’s real. We all have our unattractive feelings and moments. That’s why we need grace. Today, I’m going to show myself some grace. I’m going to drink some tea and hug my babies and pet the cats. Maybe watch a movie. And if your day feels anything like mine, I hope you’ll be gracious with yourself, too. ❤️ (Pictured: Winter Hexagon Placemats, available in the Winter Hexagon Minis pattern collection)