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Happy Tuesday everyone. I hope your MLK weekend offered rest and reflection and that you are feeling ready for week three of the In Protest sew-along. This week, we are making progress on the hand and sign blocks. Week Three: I've loved seeing your check-ins from weeks one and two. So many colorful hands coming together! For this week, please continue to share your creations. If you are keeping pace with the weekly schedule, this week you can work on assembling sections 1 and

Happy Tuesday everyone, and welcome to week two of the In Protest sew-along. This week, we are going to be continuing our work on the sign block and starting the hand. Week One Check Ins: You are all so creative and talented, and I've been loving all of your week one check-ins on Instagram. As a reminder, please make sure to tag or mention me in your posts so that I can see and track them. You can mention me by typing @quiltbynight (make sure to include the @) in your caption

This is the email that went out to all of the In Protest Sew Along participants on Friday morning. But since I've had a bunch of new folks sign up since then, I decided to start posting the check-ins here as well. Good morning, everyone! We're partway through week one of the In Protest Sew Along and I have a couple of things to share with you all. Let's start with a thank you: When I first dreamed up this sew-along, I truly thought it would be a small thing, maybe 10 or 15 of

Hope is the Thing with Feathers,  inspired and titled after Emily Dickinson’s poem, explores the visual embodiment of hope as it emerges and radiates against darkness. As I prepare to release this pattern, I have been thinking a lot about the concept of hope.  I designed this quilt during a time when I was finding it all too easy to dwell in the darkness happening around me and much more difficult to identify rays of hope. Making this quilt was my tribute to a fragile yet def

I have so many quilty things  happening this month. I started writing them down just to stay organized, and the list managed to make me feel both super excited and  super overwhelmed. Part of me thinks I should space things out so I don’t overwhelm all of you, too. But honestly? The excited part is winning right now, so here we go! Hope Is the Thing with Feathers Release date: Thursday, January 8 I just received final feedback and photos from my pattern testers for Hope Is th

Do you ever wake up on a Tuesday and decide, "Hey, I think I need a website?" No, just me? This whole thing mostly started because I want to host a sew along and I felt like I needed somewhere beyond Instagram to post details and updates. Don't get me wrong, I love Instagram. But I also know that it can be hard to find old posts for things that need re-referencing. So now I'm deep down the rabbit hole of learning about domain names and business email and designing a website.