Posts by Jenny
2013 Pine Tree Quilt Guild Show
It’s hard to pick a favorite local show, but the Pine Tree Quilt Guild‘s “Springtime in the Pines” is one of my favs. The Pine Tree Guild has a really nice mix of quilters from all genres and one unique part of their show is a gallery that highlights the Mountain Art Quilters. MAQ allows…
Read MoreSanta Fe Overload
If my brain were a spreadsheet, all of its cells would be full and overflowing. The sheer wonder of my experience at the SAQA conference in Santa Fe overwhelms me. I met so many incredible artists that I hold in high esteem, I was professionally coached (in public!) on finding my voice and I savored…
Read MoreSanta Fe Textures
I just returned from the Studio Art Quilt Associates Conference in Santa Fe and I’m in a stupor. The word “amazing” is overused, but in this case, it applies. I am so overwhelmed by the sheer wonder of the experience, that today I am only going to post about the textures of Santa Fe. Texture-it…
Read MoreSerial Monogamy For Quilters
I am currently in a funk with the quilt I’ve been working on for six months. Our Relationship began last October at the IQF show in Houston with the kernel of an idea and became a Committed Relationship a month later in November when I began to work on it. But he was thought of long…
Read MoreShelter
Lily-of-the-Valleys are one of my favorite flowers. I love their little upside down teacup blooms, their heady fragrance and their furling leaves. My Mom’s Lily Bed quilt captured some of that feeling. My Mom passed away a year ago in Feb and Lily-of-the-Valleys will always remind me of her. After I returned home from her…
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