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I’m back! It’s been a very busy few weeks and I have few photos to show for it. I was recently named Director of the Northern California Council of Quilt Guilds (NCQC), an organization that “facilitates communication between quilt guilds, teachers, and others in the quilting industry”. It has been a real struggle to get up to speed with my duties. There have been some hurdles, a change of direction, new Board members and the challenge of learning how to run a good meeting. We had a Board meeting last week and a General Meeting yesterday, each needing a…
NOTE: My posts and newsletters may be a bit spotty over the next few weeks. I am super busy and just may not have time. We spent a fabulous 4 days in the Sonoran Desert visiting my son and future DIL in Tucson. That desert air felt soooo good! Temps were in the 70’s and 80’s. Sigh! We stayed at the La Paloma Resort and Spa, a “AAA 4 star” sprawling 250 acre oasis in the desert. It is my favorite resort! There must be 20 different room buildings, each with some sort of view. We splurged and got…
I am going to take next week off; I don’t think many of you are going to be reading blog posts anyway! I will be back the following week, on Jan 2. I just ran out of steam. I have been at my computer since Thanksgiving for a variety of reasons and I need some down time. I usually have Dec and early Jan off, but not this year! Although I have been super busy, it’s not particularly photo worthy things: applying for Houston 2025, getting guild gigs settled, travel plans for guilds set up, working on the Northern California…
I’ve missed a few newsletters and blog posts lately; it’s been wonderfully busy! I taught a fabulous class last Fri and Sat at the Meissner Main location. I had the most enthusiastic students with me for 2 days of “Fills For Days”. I covered tons of designs, showed supporting photos to spark creativity and along the way talked about combinations and design. It was jam packed! I forgot to take one. single. photo, but luckily, Leah, the Director of Education took a few: I was so jazzed after class that I had a hard time sleeping that night. I covered…
NOTE: I’m teaching this weekend, so no newsletter again. Sorry! I will be back on it next week, but will not blog or send a newsletter Christmas week. This year marked our 40/70 – our 40th Anniversary and our 70th birthdays! We have a slew of family holidays in November and December and this year, we celebrated it all at once. Hubby and I met in Houston, Tx while on Audit staff at what was then Arthur Anderson, one of the “Big 8” accounting firms. We had a very modest wedding and only got proofs of our photos, so…
NOTE: I know I said I wouldn’t post today, but here I am! My sons et al do not arrive until Saturday, so I have the time now. BUT, I teach next Fri/Sat so I may not publish my newsletter next week. I may get one out this week, we will see. Happy Thanksgiving! Hubby and I are celebrating our “70/40” this weekend and will have a special meal on Monday. Our birthdays are 24 days apart, with our anniversary in between; so it’s our 70th birthdays and our 40th anniversary. We decided to NOT go to a fufu…
NOTE: I am not sure whether I will have a blog post or newsletter next week. I will play it by ear. Sign up for my newsletter here; it includes my blog post PLUS a lot of other goodies. The Pioneer Quilters Guild show is one of my favorite local shows; there is always a wide variety of talent, a fabulous boutique, good food and good vendors. And, they had a chocolate vendor this year! Makes me wonder why other guild shows don’t have a chocolate vendor. I mean…quilters…chocolate; what a good match! I noticed how much more elevated the…
Oh I do love the whole experience of teaching at the Houston Int’l Quilt Festival! We used to fill the George R. Brown Convention Center, now it looked like Festival took up about half of the center. But now worries, it was still an amazing experience. I enjoyed this view from my room each night: There was a false fire alarm during Festival, but of course we didn’t know it at the time. A handsome group of buff firefighters arrived. Too bad I don’t have a better photo😊 Houston is so very greeeen! Views of Discovery Green across the…
You can find Part 1 here. I will write next week about the experience, teaching and the wonderful people I met! See Part 1 of the Houston quilts here along with an explanation of how I selected photos. Here ya go: Unusual techniques or form: Surface Design: Improv: Statement, emotion: Animals, Plants, Portraits: Other? I’ll be linking up: Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday
You can find Part 2 here. I will write next week about the experience, teaching and the wonderful people I met! Well it was a fabulous show! Yes, I think it was smaller than last year, but still, there were many stunning quilts. The surprise for me this year was that the Abstract category was huge and the Modern comparatively small. There were some strong exhibits that intrigued me and I was especially taken by an exhibit by Teresa Duryea Wong which featured rescued tops that she finished. A woman who stood right behind me at that exhibit remarked:…