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Kathy Eager Creative
Welcome to my site.
I’ve always been a creative person and need creative outlets. I sew, I embroider, I crochet, I paint, I take photos. You name it, I’ve probably done it.
Giving Back
I started my shop to create crochet dolls of feminist icons. As I created them, I decided I wanted to donate to related causes. For example, for each Ruth Bader Ginsburg doll I sold, I donated to the ACLU. I’ve donated over $200 to various organizations.
Then the pandemic hit and I made masks. For each mask sold, I donated one to a hospital or food bank. I donated over 300 masks!
Recently I’ve been painting landscapes and hiking-inspired watercolor paintings, and donate to the Mount Washington Observatory. Thank you to all of you for supporting me, and through me, supporting others!
Interests
I love hiking. Much of my inspiration comes from hiking. Be it paintings of mountains or crocheted mushrooms.
I’m a big geek. I love Star Wars and Doctor Who. I geek out on tech and gadgetry.
I’m a car person without being a big car person. Ha! I love my MINI Cooper, I autocross, I’m even a co-host on a car podcast, but I can never remember car models and can’t really do any car repair.
Where to find my stuff
At the moment, you can buy my art directly on my site, just by filling out the contact form below or on any of the posts you see on the site. Or you can check out my Etsy shop. Or for stickers and notebooks and such, check out my Redbubble shop.
Supplies
Want to support me and my creativity (besides buying my art)? Here’s a link to my BLICK arts wish list. Or like and follow on any of my social media accounts. Thank you!
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MTVT Quilt
Every year my boyfriend and I take part in MINIs Take Vermont. An event in Vermont (obviously) for people and their MINI Coopers. We drive around together on rallies that include stops at various attractions, restaurants, etc. One of the rallies this year stopped in at a QUILT SHOP! I was excited to say the least. I bought a couple of things, including a Moda layer cake (a collection of fabrics pre-cut into 10″ squares), Acorn Hollow. The event is in October, so clearly I was feeling the fall vibes.
Before the trip, I saw the pattern, Postmarked by Moonkin Stitchery, meant for layer cakes and I knew it would be perfect. My only “change” came when I had cut all the pieces and THEN realized that some of the fabrics were directional, so I ended up turning the block pairs on their side, so the fabric would be right side up.
I chose to do “matchstick” quilting, parallel lines, some as close together as 1/4″ inch, others farther apart.
Clearly my cat approves as she almost immediately got on top of it. Luckily, I’m keeping this one, so no worries about cat hair. I also did a proper label for once!
This may have to be a new tradition, where I buy fabric on the trip, then come home a make a quilt.
Finished size: 48″ x 60″
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Square in Square Quilt
I wrote a while back about scrap management. Short version, cut up your leftover fabrics into useful and commonly used shapes/sizes. The last tip in the post was about sewing together these common shapes/sizes as your leaders and enders. (Leaders and enders being pieces of fabric you put under the needle before your “real” pieces you’re about to sew, so you never cut the threads and are continuously sewing. It helps the threads not bird nest up.)
This quilt was pieced entirely as leaders and enders! Basically, while I worked on other quilts, I would sew together the pieces of these blocks before and after each set. It didn’t take very long to suddenly have enough blocks for a quilt top! And it didn’t feel like I’d even worked on them, since they were “in between” other work I was doing.
It did take me a bit to get around to making the “sandwich” and actually quilting it, but it’s done!
I’m really pleased with how it turned out!
Finished size: 48″ x 60″
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Halloween Quilt
I had heard about a store in Maine, that among other things, had fabric at reasonable prices. After the demise of Joann Fabrics, I wanted to check it out. The store is Mardens Surplus and Salvage, which feels like a store selling stuff they found that fell off a delivery truck. But in the back, there’s practically a whole fabric store! Nice, quality cotton fabric and very reasonable prices. I bought some pre-cut yardage, and a couple of jelly rolls. One of the jelly rolls was Poppie Cotton Sweeth Tooth, which I think originally sold for $50 and I bought it for $9.99!
The pattern is Jelly Sticks by Coriander Quilts. I supplemented the jelly roll with an orange I had for the centers. I decided to quilt in a spider web pattern and I absolutely LOVE how it turned out. Bonus photo of the cute selvage of the fabrics.
It total Kathy-fasion, I finished my Halloween quilt on November 1.
Finished size: 46″ x 58″
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SSWP – Covered in Charm
Another one for Scrappy Sewing with Patty and Project Linus
Previous quilts in this series: https://kathyeagercreative.com/2025/10/11/sswp-covered-in-sweetness/, https://kathyeagercreative.com/2025/04/23/sswp-covered-in-adventure/, https://kathyeagercreative.com/2025/03/26/sswp-covered-in-intrigue/
Covered in Charm
The pattern called for two inch strips, but since it was meant to come from scraps, 2 1/2″ strips made a lot more sense for me and my stash. So I recalculated and think it turned out great.
Finished size 50″ x 40″
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SSWP – Covered in Charity
Scrappy Sewing with Patty for Project Linus – Covered in Charity
Previous quilts in this series: https://kathyeagercreative.com/2025/10/11/sswp-covered-in-sweetness/, https://kathyeagercreative.com/2025/04/23/sswp-covered-in-adventure/, https://kathyeagercreative.com/2025/03/26/sswp-covered-in-intrigue/
After finishing the cat quilt from 1930s repro fabrics, I had some leftover pieces. I also already had several squares that fit the middle pieces from long ago. Since I’d be keeping the cat quilt, I didn’t feel bad giving up some repro fabrics for this donation quilt.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a backing of all one fabric, and the same for the binding.
I got a little carried away with the quilting, but really love how it turned out.
Finished size 48″ x 40″
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Artist Cards, Editions and Originals!
Artist Cards, Editions and Originals are having a big moment right now. And I totally get it!
What are they? 3.5″ by 2.5″ original or limited edition artworks. The small size makes them easy to collect, and more affordable than larger art pieces might be. Artists can create miniature artworks, or focus in on one detail. They come in all different mediums, with watercolors, oils, ink, etc. Basically any medium you’d normally find on bigger works.
So I’m joining in on the fun!
Mt Tecumseh – https://ebay.us/m/VeOFKf
Mt Lafayette – https://ebay.us/m/TdIzYD
Mt Jackson – https://ebay.us/m/AY5CNZ
Mt Moosilauke in Winter – https://ebay.us/m/QSRi2B
Look up #1 (upper left) – https://ebay.us/m/etd2E1
Look up #2 (upper right) – https://ebay.us/m/5zz4iT
Look up #3 (lower left) – https://ebay.us/m/BAJGmG
Look up #4 (lower right) – https://ebay.us/m/RsDSO5
Check out the listings. Shipping is free in the United States. Happy bidding!
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Long time coming cat quilt
Trying to organize my stash, I found 9 blocks sewn together for a cat quilt (a quilt with cat blocks, not a quilt for my cat). I remembered this quilt and also had a few cut out, but not pieced, bits of fabric. They were made from 1930s reproduction fabrics, which I had an obsession with 20+ years ago when I was very into quilting. That’s when these original blocks were made. I have a separate stash of 1930s repro fabrics, so it would be easy enough to finish the quilt. Luckily, in addition to hoarding fabrics, I also kept the pattern, although I had heavily modified it to make this quilt (removed sashing and border, removed an applique, made it larger).
47 blocks later, and I had a throw sized cat quilt.
You can see the lower right has some different colored backgrounds. Those are the original blocks.
Some close ups
The background and a close up of the background and binding. I’m really pleased with the improvement in my machine free motion quilting. The stitches are so much more even than they used to be.
Finished size: 46″ x 54″
Time to complete: 20+ years
I love this one so much and I’ll be keeping it for myself, as that was the original intent.
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SSWP – Covered in Sweetness
Earlier this year I joined in a fundraiser for Project Linus. It included seven patterns for scrappy quilts. I completed Covered in Adventure,
I also completed Covered in Intrigue.
Now I’ve completed Covered in Sweetness
This one is pretty small and went together quickly. I’m SO proud of the corner alignment and the quilting. It all came out great. And I was able to use this Tinkerbell fabric that is probably 20 years old or more.
Finished size 39″ x 39″
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Four Roommates, Four Quilts
My daughter and her 3 roommates moved in to their new 2-bedroom apartment. She asked if I could make a quilt for the apartment. I can do better than that, how about four?
Each girl has their color that they’ve claimed: pink, green, yellow, and blue. So each quilt has each girl’s color as the main color, and their roommate’s as the coordinating color.
The for the backing, their color as the backing, but they all four have the same strip down the middle with a fabric from each of the quilts.
(Vaguely annoyed I didn’t realize the one quilt was being held differently when taking pictures, and now they’ve been gifted)
I made scrappy bindings for all of them from fabrics in the quilt, as well as a supplemental fabric or two.
Machine quilted in a meander, and each girl’s name in the corner.
The pattern is from Cluck Cluck Sew, “Fat Quarter Friday” in the square variation. Final size 45″ x 60″.
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CHICKEN QUILT!
I love this quilt. I love it so much. I saw the pattern and KNEW I had to make it for my friend Beth. She has chickens, obviously.
The pattern is by Cluck Cluck Sew (naturally). Picking out fabrics (mostly from my stash) was so fun. With some realistic chicken colorings, and some very much not realistic chickens.
And I just happened to have this chicken fabric in my stash, perfect to add to the backing.
And what quilting would I do? Chicken wire!
Love love love it so much. Beth loved it, too, which makes me happy. 🙂
Finished size: 54″ x 60″
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Kathy Eager Creative 