Author Archives: Diana

Pantone’s Color of the Year and Fashion Color Report Spring 2012

The Pantone Color Institute selected Tangerine Tango as their color of the year for 2012. Tango. Tango. I’m in love with Tangerine Tango. It’s happy, playful and fun. Pantone describes Tangerine Tango as vivacious, optimistic, enticing, exotic and hopeful. An “adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow” packaged in a sophisticated…

Downloadable Patterns Are Doable

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Downloadable patterns are as close to instant gratification as a sewist can get. You never know when creativity will hit. It could be midnight or 5 a.m. The beauty of the downloadable is that when you’re itching to sew, you can find a pattern, buy it, download it and start sewing within a matter of…

A quilter? Not me.

The first time I saw this quilt was shortly after Kathy hired me at Pink Chalk. The Flower Show quilt designed by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle of FunQuilts.com, appeared in Quilts and More Magazine Spring 2010. It has since been re-released in the BH&G Perfect For Precuts volume 1, 2011. I am not a…