Author archive for Ellen Heck

As part of the research and design process for another exciting iteration of the Emma Collection, I have found...

In only a few more weeks, Emma yardage by Newcastle is scheduled to arrive at independent quilt shops!  Here’s...

Strike-offs for the new Emma collection on cotton have arrived!  Here are some of the printer’s color testing strips...

I love attending the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild meetings.  Everyone in our guild brings inspirational show-and-tell projects, and...

You know that historical section in the back of American Girl books that tells a bit about the time...

Also part of our Lake Shasta trip was a guided tour of Shasta Caverns during which we learned the...

Teal water, orange sand, and purple-trunked trees kept us company last weekend at Lake Shasta, just a three-hour drive...

Now that Surtex is but a floral-striped-polka-dotted dream, we are following up with the new companies that stopped by...

We had fun meeting our new British neighbors at Surtex this year, but it was also great to catch-up...

This year at Surtex, we had the pleasure of finding ourselves on what could have been dubbed, “Portobello Road”,...