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NOTE: I had written last week that I did not intend to write a newsletter or blog on Christmas (next Thursday!!), but I may change my mind. I’m going to wait and see. Also, In this week’s newsletter I will include an article explaining the closing of the International Quilt Association which sponsored part of the Houston quilt show. The show will go on, so don’t panic. I always include a link in my weekly newsletter to each blog post, so it’s the best way to keep up with me. You can sign up here. What a fun week! I…
It has been a very eventful week, but there aren’t a lot of photos to support that! It was the week of the virtual Houston Quilt Festival and it was a jam-packed: I am not going to show a lot of screen shots because to me, they pretty much all look alike. I was a panelist for both of the Machine Quilting Forums, presenting on Cutwork as well as an overview of free motion quilting. Each Forum had close to 500 attendees! If it were held in-person the limit is (I think) 150. Now you see why Forum fills early…
This will be short. I am getting ready to LAUNCH today. I will present at 10AM PST at the Machine Quilting Forum of the Virtual Houston Quilt Festival – “Easy Peasy Cutwork”. Then at 4PM PST, my big presentation to the general audience, “Quilting is a Contact Sport!”, yikes! If you have heard the lecture by the same name before, rest assured, this is a different lecture. Some of the stories will be the same, but the content is very different. And on Saturday at noon I’ll be part of a second Machine Quilting Forum and talk about “Yes You…
The pies won. They’re not made yet, so it came down to pies, or thoughtful blog post and the pies won. I am excited about Thanksgiving this year, the last without a grandchild. Life will change and next year there will be a wee one to celebrate with – can’t wait! Both boys and DIL will be here, along with masks. We are doing raclette again this year (photo from a few years back) which is perfect for social distancing. We’ll have 3 tables and 3 grills! How bizarre is this world? Oh, and that little pile of quilts next…
I had some fun quilting this week. I wanted a redo on a cutwork piece I’d done recently. I’ve taught it virtually and the class went very well but as I pondered my class sample, I decided I wanted to improve it. It was a bit of a risk, but it turned out well and proved my theory. I wanted to have more open cutwork space to better define the shapes, so I gave it a try: The class sample seemed a little dense with too much fabric; it needed more open space. It looked a little blobby to…
We’re going into another shut down here again, sigh. I just taught a delightful class at Meissner’s Main Store and was thinking how wonderful it was to teach in person again. Of course I forgot to take photos. This was a fun class, on Veteran’s Day, with a great mix of students including 2 sisters and a Hubby from one family. And every student was a veteran or raised a veteran – wow! Some had experienced grievous injuries. I am deeply thankful for all of you who served. It has been a busy week with 2 lectures and 3…
So lucky me, I got to see real art, in person this week – what a treat! I viewed the Wayne Thiebaud exhibit, “Thiebaud 100, Paintings,Prints and Drawings” on display at the Crocker Art Museum. I had to make a reservation to enter the museum and because of restrictions, there were few people there. What a delight! I was able to linger over each painting and not feel rushed. Before I show some his art I want to first show a blast from the past: My local quilt guild, the Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild, formed a small group…
I finally just decided I was tired of festering over what to do with my trapunto bubble quilt. I loooove feathers, so I did a little sketch just to get a taste of what it might look like if I feathered it: Funny how the tiny filler bubbles define the feathers so much more than the micro-stipple does. That kind of surprised me. It will be a pain to fill in all the negative space but look at how it defines and enhances the feather! Step two was to do a bit of sketching on a piece of vinyl laid…
I’m having fun with this baby stuff! Baby quilts are so quick to make. I have this cartoon in my head that my son and DIL will arrive for Thanksgiving in their Subaru Outback and leave pulling a 15′ trailer full of baby things that Gramma made, LOL! I think I need to pump the brakes, but hey, I said the same thing last week. This week’s output: Isn’t that the cutest stinkin’ panel? It’s all pre-printed so no piecing there. And it’s got a little lion, tee hee. I love those cute little happy elephants! Total coincidence that there…
It’s not surprising that I have Baby on my mind. I’ve kinda gone overboard on this, you’ll see what I mean. It started so innocently…. I got this panel at Meissner Folsom, cute huh? It’s for taking photos as Baby grows. You put Baby down in the lower left-hand corner and put something around the proper words or numbers like 4th week or 36 days or 3 months, etc. I was so intent squaring it up that I cut off the “3” but I will drop back in with a marker and make it look like “I meant to do…