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NOTE: I may take Thanksgiving week off, not yet sure. After spending many hours poring through my photos of the Houston show, purging the bad ones, deciding on which to postthen resizing and fixing each in Photo Shop, I chose to show the following quilts. Later, I discovered an entire stash of photos that I did not have in the mix! But I am weary; so yes, there is an entire group of amazing quilts that I won’t post. Sorry! One curious thing this year – I was most attracted to traditional quilts. I know, how odd for me!…
Here we go, Houston 2022 quilts!! This year was especially challenging, as I had extremely limited time on the show floor. So I ran around and took photos without the joy of lingering in front of them, drinking in their beauty and detail. Also, please note, there are NOTEABLE quilts that I don’t have photos of. If a lingering group was in front of a quilt I wanted to photograph, I just couldn’t wait until they left. I have no photos of some of the most remarkable quilts. And many times I do not post my photos of the big…
NOTE: I may not have a post next week. I hope to write it before I leave for Houston, but I may not have enough time. I also may not have a newsletter for this Sat, Oct 29. I definitely will not have a newsletter Nov 5th. Whaaaaat, you don’t get my newsletter? My newsletter is a two-fer, you get my blog post plus other entertaining, enlightening and sometimes silly stuff. You can sign up here. I almost forgot; I had 2 quilts hanging at the show: Round 2 of the Pacific International Quilt Festival, in no particular order; lots…
I decided to post photos from the Pacific International Quilt Festival this week and next, followed by the Foothills Quilters Guild show the following week. If you follow me, you will know that I don’t create posts ahead of time for later posting, I’ve always posted of-the-moment. Until now. I am prepping for Houston and other things personal and professional. I hope to get these posts ready so that I can concentrate on my prep work. Shhhhh, but there are entire areas of prep, samples and curriculum that I haven’t touched for Houston; I need to get on it!…
I needed to create two new class samples for my Yes You CAN Free Motion Quilt! class, as all my other samples had been sent out to other guilds/shops. I LOVE it when my To Do List actually includes “quilt something”. This is my intro class and I do teach it differently than any one else I am aware of – we do 5 different motifs in a beginner class. That way, students learn skill sets from each one that will apply to their future quilting, no matter the motif. Because of that, I felt the need to send out…
I had the pleasure of being the Featured Quilter at the Mother Lode Quilters’ Guild Show in Sutter Creek. I met so many people, engaged in interesting conversations and was generally treated like a Queen! Anelie Belden is the President and was a supportive and attentive host. I stayed at the Foxie Inn, a lovely bed and breakfast just steps away from the show. I took breakfast in the garden each morning and enjoyed an indulgent croissant breakfast. I was greeted with a beautiful basket from the guild: Tucked in there was the local paper with a feature article…
After a 3 year absence, it was time for the River City Quilters Guild‘s show! Clearly, it was a bumper crop year as there were so many fantastic quilts. Like always, keep in mind that some wonderful quilts are missing from this post because my photo was bad or I just lost track as I ran into people and chatted. So here we go: Interesting, there were 2 Best of Shows – one Traditional, and one Modern. Jan Soules took both! Oh this was beautiful! Jan uses fabric with such skill. Lin Squires’ quilting was the perfect touch and enhanced…
I did some dramatic things to my yellow silk quilt this week. There is no turning back now. I hope this works! I cut off the border. The raw silk was just too floppy and I knew this quilt would not hang well. I bit the bullet and removed the border. It was a challenge: The thread I used by almost invisible, visible only that it had a bit of sheen next to the matte of the raw silk. Yikes, that left me with a raw edge: I decided that I would do the whole panel as an overlay…
I recently attended a local event at Meissner Sewing in Sacramento that included a Hillary Goodwin talk and Trunk Show. The store was also festooned with some of the notable quilts from QuiltCon 2022. For those of you who do not know the name, Hillary Goodwin is a local wearable and quilt artist as well as an ER doc! She won Best of Show at QuiltCon with this quilt: This quilt was not available for the Meissner event as it was traveling. It speaks to the hard times that health care professional endured during the Pandemic. I wish I…
What else do you do when it’s 116 degrees? Quilt of course! Bayley still needs her walks, but they are shorter and altered to find shade and paw-friendly places. I was able to finish my sheer piece that I wrote about last week, which is currently nameless: This is a prototype, a lark, a fun romp. I designed it in about 20 minutes, with no planning sketches, just reacting to what I put down. I did have some design errors and I’m fine with that. You might notice the odd gap between the edge of the corner design and…