Happy National Quilting Day! What better way to celebrate than by joining your community of makers for the Villa Rosa Designs Fast & More Fun Blog Hop? SIY-Sew It Yourself is SEW excited to be a participant in this year’s hop.

A HUGE thanks to Villa Rosa for organizing this hop and to all the generous sponsors for offering amazing prizes! Today

Tell us about yourself.

I am a quilter, and I love what I do. You may know me, not because of my designs, but because I run a group called Nine Patch A Day Group on Facebook where I go live most Sunday evenings to talk about quilting. My friends and family joke that I am a “recovering” shop owner. I

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Hi, I’m Angel, a freelancer focusing on illustration and fine art. I currently live in Minnesota with my kind husband and our 3 adorable kids. I stumbled upon surface pattern design around 2016, inspired by a blog (ironic, I know) showcasing their beautiful work and inspiring collaborations. Despite no formal training, I’ve honed my skills through online

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 Hi, I’m Gail Pan. I have been sewing and crafting for most of my life, and I love it! I live just outside Melbourne Australia with my husband Bart. I started my business Gail Pan Designs in 2003.

What inspires you?

I started designing fabric in 2013 after being asked to do so. It was a bit daunting at

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My name is Victoria Hutto, and like many artists, I’ve created ever since I was a child.  I was raised to believe that art was just for fun and not a good career choice. But I could not escape my desire to create. I believe it is who I am. The idea that I could create something,

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Hi all. My name is Seth Apter, and I am a mixed-media artist from New York City. I came to the world of art later in life after a serendipitous meeting with another artist who ultimately became my guide, mentor, and friend and who completely changed my path. My initial career was as a Psychologist and at that time

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I grew up in rural Southern Ontario, Canada. I lived in an old farmhouse surrounded by fields and pastures. I loved it. I spent years wandering along fence lines and creeks.

My mother was a seamstress during the 60’s, and she taught me how to sew when I very young. She often gave me leftover fabric scraps from

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(Leanne) Hi, my name is Leanne Anderson and I am the owner of The Whole Country Caboodle, located in Nashua, Iowa. We are a design studio, not a brick & mortar store. We work out of a two-story building where the upstairs is our design studio and our business operations and the downstairs is our laser and

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I remember when I was a little girl, my favorite color in art class was this unique mixture of colors that I came up with; by using neon yellow and blue coloring pens. It created a light yet solid grass green color. I was absolutely in love with that kind of color. Nowadays, greens are still my

Tell us about yourself.

I live in Queensland Australia in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane. I love living here, surrounded by rolling hills, bordering a forest and wildlife corridors.

Two years ago, I finished building a house as an owner-builder on a hill on my ten-acre property.  When not in my studio painting and sewing, I spend time