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It was an adventure to travel from sunny California to blustery Solon, Ohio (Cleveland area) for filming my segments for Quilting Arts TV. Look at this map! It was very odd to travel this light: I’ve arranged all my things by segment and this is all I took. I’m used to two 50 lb bags so this was a treat! Only after I arrived did I realize I should have brought some quilts for a backdrop for one of my segments…. You may recall there was a monster storm covering the Midwest to Northeast last week. Fortunately, traveling from west to east,…
I’m in Cleveland taping for Quilting Arts TV! So from upper 70’s in northern California into the snowstorm, 19 degrees and wind blowing a gale. Wish me safe travels to and fro and that I stay healthy with all this travel. I’ll have lots to say when I return. I’m sooo excited!! Stay tuned!
I know this is only 4 days late-I’m running as fast as I can! I had a wonderful, fabulous visit to Tucson last week to both the Tucson Quilters Guild (TQG) and my son. I leave tomorrow in the wee wee hours to travel to Cleveland for the QATV taping. With a mere 2 days in between to ready for QATV and all that happened in Tucson, blogging just could not find a place! All us traveling quilt teachers travel light-two 29″ 50-pounders, a carry-on and a 15 lb tech bag plus my purse. Traveling quilt teachers have to be…
My posts may be short in the next two weeks. I’ll be traveling to Tucson for a 4-day stint and dang, my son lives there! So I will take an extra day to pinch his cheeks and otherwise embarrass him. That’s my job. I have a two day turnaround and I’m out to Cleveland for a taping on……Quilting Arts TV! It seems that everyone else I know has been on QATV so I’m thrilled to have the opportunity. I really do love to tell the world about free motion quilting. Yes, I’ll be spending some time with Susan Brubaker Knapp as…
Don’t you just love how quilters help each other? I title one of my lectures “Quilting is a Contact Sport” based on that premise. This week my friend Helen came to my rescue: I was working on a project at night and I ran out of King Tut #903. Horrors! I posted to FaceBook: “How will I live-ran out of King Tut color #903-need it now!” You KNOW the feeling, right? I received many responses but Helen got right on it and called me, wondering if I could meet her. No hesitation there-sure! Now this was on one of those blustery,…
On to the Big Quilt Room: Debi Henry, quilted by Brandi Rayburn, “Crazy Two Colored Pineapple”. Debi saw a photo of this quilt done on a cruise with Anita Grossman-Solomon and knew she had to make it. I love how graphic it is, beautifully pieced and gorgeous quilting. Chris Bender, quilted by Sandi Fong, “Leaves”. Chris modified a pattern by Donna Lynn Thomas. There are 2,300 pieces in this quilt! Her use of color makes the leaves “fuzzy”-kinda cool! Shireen Hattan, “Amish With A Twist Slightly Twisted”. Shireen picked this up from a Nancy Rink Block of the Month close…
I get so excited about my local guild’s show-it’s always fabulous! Enjoy a peek at this year’s Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild show: Best of Show, Inger Blood: “A Taste of Tie”. Inger inherited her father-in-law’s silk ties which she deconstructed and pieced into these Log Cabin blocks. She designed the quilt in EQ7. Inger works on a domestic machine! In the detail you see her exquisite quilting and the sparkle of the crystals! It shimmered as it hung. Judge’s Choice, Karla Delner: “Fabulous Flowers and Fantasy Feathers”. Karla did a bit of redesigning of one of Wendy Williams’ wool felt designs.…
I’ve got a short post today as I’m readying for a weekend engagement in Southern California. I recently sold a quilt that I didn’t really set out to sell. It is one of my best pieces and also one of my most edited pieces. I wonder if that is a coincidence… So here’s the piece. If you follow my blog you’ve seen this more than once. And I wrote previously about its acceptance into the Art=Quilts=Art juried exhibition at the Schweinfurth Museum in Auburn, New York. I cannot find my paperwork on the exhibition, but I am pretty sure I had…
I’d never been to the “Heart of the Valley” show of the Country Crossroads Quilters of Modesto. Theirs is a biennial show held in the Modesto Centre Plaza, a sprawling, well-lighted venue. The show was beautiful! The aisles were spacious and there were lots of chairs throughout the show with great views of the quilts and incredible lighting on the quilts. Penni Barger and Kathryn Sandner were the Featured Quilters. The above quilt was one of Penni’s featured quilts, “Metro Re of the Western Hemisphere”, a thread painted quilt that has previously won an award for Best Use of Thread.…
If you didn’t make it to Craft Napa this year, you have to make it next year! Really, this is a magical event like none other. This year I got to be both student and teacher and I’m still excited about the experience. How much better does it get: teaching my first day and playing with Melissa Averinos and Lynn Krawczyk the next two days? Craft Napa is like an ultimate play date for adults. I have such a hard time putting it into words. It was non-stop fun and creativity! Wed started pretty early with a morning presentation at the…