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Quilt Verve Original fabrics and quilt patterns designed for creative makers who love color, craftsmanship, and a little bohemian fashion.

Peinte is derived from the french word "painted." I believe that everyone has the ability to be the kind of person they want to be, as long as a person believes in it. Everyone has the ability to "paint" themselves into the best versions of themselves.

06/19/2026

✨ Sometimes the quilts you love the most are the ones nobody asks for.

This quilt has quietly been sitting in my archives for years.

I designed it. I made it. I wrote the pattern.

And then life, new ideas, and new projects kept moving it further down the list.

Going back through these old photos reminded me how much I still love this one — from the foundation paper piecing, to the curves, to the celestial feeling of the final quilt.

I made Stardust using my talented friend Amanda Bauer beautiful Signature Island Batik fabric collection, and those dreamy purples still feel just as magical today. 💜✨

Maybe some designs are just waiting for the right time.

So I have to ask… should Stardust finally get its moment?

⬇️ Tell me honestly — would you make this quilt?

06/19/2026

This old beanbag weight sat on my dad’s engineering desk for years.

A small thing he left with me that I use almost every quilting project. A little momento.

Turns out it’s the perfect tool for holding fabric in place while I cut—no pins, no chasing fabric across the table.

It’s funny how the tools we use can carry little pieces of the people who taught us to make, build, and create.

Do you have a tool in your sewing room that wasn’t actually made for quilting?

06/17/2026

I designed this fabric years ago for Boundless at Craftsy.

And honestly?

It was one of my favorite collections I had ever designed.

Which meant I did exactly what so many quilters do…

I put it on a shelf and saved it.

For the perfect project.
For the perfect moment.
For the day I was sure I wouldn’t “ruin” it.

Years later, I finally cut into it.

And I’m so glad I did.

Because the joy of fabric isn’t in preserving it forever.

It’s in seeing it become something you can hold, use, and love.

Do you have a bundle in your stash that feels too pretty to cut? 👇





06/16/2026

The best curve tool in my sewing room wasn’t made for quilting. ✂️

I learned to use a notcher in fashion school while studying apparel patternmaking, and years later it is still one of my favorite tools for sewing curves.

It creates tiny marks that tell me exactly where two pieces need to align—especially the center of a curve—so there is less stretching, less guessing, and much more accurate piecing.

It’s also a technique I build into all of my quilt patterns. You’ll notice these matching notches printed directly on my templates because I believe curves should be approachable, not intimidating.

This particular curve is from my Into the Night moth quilt pattern, one of my favorite designs to make because those dramatic wings are built from these beautifully shaped curved pieces.

Sometimes the best quilting techniques come from an entirely different creative world.

Would you try a fashion-school trick in your quilting? 🧵✨

06/16/2026

The toys can wait for five minutes. 😉

There are dishes, laundry, little voices calling my name, and a hundred things that could be done.

But sometimes I step into my sewing room, pick up a few forgotten scraps, and make something simply because it brings me peace.

No plan. No pressure. No perfect outcome.

Just fabric, a quiet moment, and the reminder that creating something beautiful can bring you back to yourself.

I think that’s what quilting has always been for me. ❤️

Does anyone else feel this way about their sewing space?

06/14/2026

I was this close to throwing away these scraps.

Then I found the exact piece of fabric I’d spent a week searching for… sitting right there in the pile 🤦🏼‍♀️

Apparently my scrap pile was more organized than I thought 😂

So instead of tossing them, I grabbed the biggest piece, squared it up, and started adding 1” strips around it like a tiny log cabin.

I don’t know if this will become a placemat, a mini quilt, or a wall hanging yet…

But I love finding a way to make the “too small to use but too pretty to throw away” pieces into something beautiful.

What do you do with your FPP scraps?

06/14/2026

I would never make this quilt today.

Not because I don’t love it.

Because I’ve changed.

My style has evolved. My skills have improved. The quilts I design today look nothing like the second quilt I ever made with my mom.

And yet, somehow, this is still one of the most meaningful quilts I own.

It sat on the back of my couch for almost 10 years.

It has been washed more times than I can count.

It has been used for naps, movie nights, and ordinary little moments that become the biggest memories.

I think that’s the beautiful thing about making something by hand.

Sometimes the pieces that show where we started become the ones we treasure the most.

💕 Do you have something you’ve made (or owned) that you could never part with?

06/13/2026

I used to think the goal was to make a perfect quilt.

Perfect points. Perfect seams. Perfect fabric choices.

But one of the biggest lessons quilting has taught me is that the beauty isn’t in perfection.

It’s in the moments after.

A quiet afternoon in the grass.
A child wrapped up in a quilt.
A memory made.

This quilt was one of my earliest patterns, Ribbons & Bows, and even years later, it reminds me why I make quilts in the first place.

Not to keep them folded away.

But to live with them.

💕 What is something you’ve made that wasn’t perfect, but you still absolutely love?

06/11/2026

It took months to create this quilt, but mostly because of the fabric that went into it - designing and producing.

When you’re making something by hand, it’s easy to get caught up in the details—the points, the seams, the decisions, the things you’d do differently.

But today this quilt became a picnic blanket under the trees while we ate salad from the garden.

And somehow that feels more important than all the hours that went into making it.

I think that’s what quilts are really for.

Not just to be admired.

To be lived with.

Fabric collection, quilt pattern, and quilt all designed by me. ❤️

06/10/2026

The quilt that received the most compliments in my booth at H+H wasn’t perfect.

It had points that weren’t perfect.
It had decisions I second-guessed.
It had details I almost changed.

And yet, it was the quilt people remembered.

I think we spend so much time worrying about the mistakes that we forget why we started making quilts in the first place.

Most people won’t notice the thing you’ve been staring at for three weeks.

They’ll notice the colors.
The feeling.
The story.

If your quilt has mistakes, keep going. ❤️

Have you ever finished a quilt you almost gave up on?

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