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Hey there color-curious quilter!

Let's go from second-guessing fabric choices and stalling over layouts to confidently finishing bold, colorful quilts you can’t wait to show off.

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The HIVE+ Community is a creative home for quilters who love color — but sometimes freeze when there are “too many” fabrics on the table.

If you’ve ever:

  • Rearranged a layout over and over
  • Avoided a pattern because it looked too hard or techincal
  • Wondered why your quilt feels “off” but couldn’t explain why

You are in the right place. You belong here.

Live Online Gathering

Each month inside HIVE+, we gather for a live Controlled Improv Design Practice—a guided, hands-on session focused on building confidence through intentional decision-making.

You’ll be given clear design controls—including colors, shapes, occurrence, and order—and then guided as you explore ideas using simple paper templates and a quilt-outline sheet. No sewing is required, and there’s no expectation to finish anything during the session.

Take a look around the HIVE to get a feel for it

This is a practice space: to try ideas without pressure, to make color and design decisions in a supportive environment, to build confidence through repetition, not perfection

Over time, you’ll build a collection of controlled improv designs you can revisit, refine, or turn into quilts when you’re ready—with support available inside HIVE+ if you want to take the next step.

You’re not here to rush.

You’re here to practice.

What This Community Is About

Inside the HIVE+, we don’t just cheer each other on.
We learn how color and layout actually work.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Evaluate your own layouts with clarity
  • Use contrast, repetition, hierarchy, and structure to make “all the colors” work
  • Make decisions faster and with more confidence
  • Finish quilts instead of stalling out halfway

This is a place where confidence grows through structure — not chaos.
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How We Engage Here

This isn’t just a “So pretty!” group.

  • We use specific language.
  • We learn design controls.
  • We give thoughtful feedback.

Instead of:

“I love it!”

You might hear:

“Your contrast is strong here.”
“Try adjusting repetition.”
“Your layout has clear hierarchy.”

We support each other by helping each other grow.

Two Ways to Be Part of the HIVE

The HIVE is designed with choice in mind.

You can participate in the way that best fits your season, energy, and goals.

There are two community paths:

A place to belong, share, and be encouraged.

The free HIVE is open to everyone. We focus on connection.

Inside the HIVE, you can:

  • Post your Show + Tells
  • Scroll inspiration from other quilters
  • Cheer each other on with comments and likes
  • Dream, watch, and feel part of the room
  • Have App access in Circle.so to enjoy Show & Tell right on your phone

If you want community and inspiration, start here.

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For quilters ready to go deeper, with structure and guidance.

HIVE+ is where intentional learning and creative growth happen.

At the heart of HIVE+ is:

🖤 Everything in the FREE HIVE

🖤 FEEDBACK: Color and Layout feedback from Mitzie

🖤 GUIDED PRACTICE: A Monthly LIVE for controlled improv design work with fabric and glue thumbnails

🖤 OPEN HIVE: An open session for questions, sewing, and community

🖤SKILL DROP: 8 or more annual sessions to sharpen the techniques that make or break your quilts

🖤COMMUNITY: Spend time with other color loving quilters like you

This is where hesitation turns into momentum.

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Quilters finish more when
they’re not doing it alone.

Hundreds of quilters have completed quilts in my QALs and classes because of one thing —

they did it in community.

HIVE+ is that community — ongoing, repeatable, and always available in your pocket.

Join HIVE+