AQS Grand Rapids
NOTE: I posted last week on Saturday. You may have missed this post. This was one of my best teaching trips yet! I love to clean up before I leave so that I walk back into a clean slate. Jealous? Getting there had some adventure involved. I haven’t flown out of O’Hare in decades […]
Bakersfield – the Cotton Patch Quilters of Kern County
It’s not surprising that it was hot in Bakersfield in August, but it was beyoooond hot! Most of my play was indoors so it all turned out well. Yeah, like THAT hot! It was 100 degrees at 9PM on Thursday. Given the high temps, this was not a visit where I went hiking! I left […]
Feathers: New samples, thread, needles and fills
I accidentally sent off all my feathers examples ahead to Grand Rapids, so I spent some time this week making new ones. That is not a bad thing to do – the new samples are “fresh” and I changed them up to reflect the most recent changes I have made to teaching “Feathers Four Ways”. […]
Counting…and a very awkward confession
I’ve been doing a lot of counting lately as I make kits for upcoming venues: counting fabric bolts, squares of fabric, squares of batting, finished quilt sandwiches, kits for students and more. I realized there is a lot of counting in my non kit-making life too: I count laps in the pool, my minutes […]
More about balanced thread tension
Great thread tension adds a level of beauty to your quilt: every stitch is a lovely arc in and out of the quilt, front and back. Poor tension distracts from the beauty of the quilt. I get so many questions about tension in class and there seems to be a lot of confusion and […]
