Summer is one of the best times to go to a quilt retreat. If you are like me and it is hot outside, you don't really care for outside activities. A quilt retreat is one of the best things to do as a quilter. It is inside, you complete some UFOs, create new projects, find out about new quilty tools, …

It’s the little things in life that bring us happiness! In quilting it can be mastering the perfect quarter inch seam. It sounds so easy but for me it proves to be a challenge to achieve this week as I sew together the 60 angled pieces of this round quilt. This week I will share my quilting adventur …

Have you ever had a deadline to meet? It might be an exhibit, a competition, a commission or something like a quilt for a birth of a baby. As a quilt artist I am faced with deadlines all of the time. There are a lot of ways that you could approach these situations. I have tried them all or at least …

My Quilting adventure continues this week with an update on my Ricky Tims Kool Kaleidoscope quilt project. This week the focus is on the process of drafting a “one of a kind” pattern to create the template. I really like that this quilt is truly unique and its design is determined by my decisions as …

To give you a little history on myself, my name is Leo Ransom and I live in a moderately sized town named Sherman, Texas about an hour north of Dallas. I learned to piece when I was 17 years old from my home economics teacher and did not return to quilting for about 15 years. At that time, I needed …