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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:…
It’s that time of year where I am in the final countdown to Houston. I literally walk around the house muttering to myself. I might be packing supplies for my ruler work class and suddenly remember I need to bring the “odd charger” for my speaker and Square thingy. I will run and get that while I remember it, and then go back to the original task. On and on it goes. Each year holds a prep surprise. You never know where it’s gonna come from, how long it will take to resolve and when it will show up.…
I have written about this fairly diminutive piece in no less than SIX previous posts , here, here, here, here, here, and here! Three of those posts were about that dog gone border. I began this piece in a Barbara Blanton Appliquick class with my guild. It is a fairly complicated block for a 6 hr workshop and quite frankly, I doubted I would ever finish; it was just too much work. But life intervened and I NEEDED some hand work, so I idly began to work it bit by bit. Then I got into it and LOVED the block.…
NOTE: There will be no blog post next week as I will be traveling. See you on Oct 17th! After that, one more post before Houston and another break. Will you miss me? This will be a short post – I am going to be out of town for a few days and I just have not had time to do much. Maybe all my readers have figured out that I am never going to finish my applique/trapunto piece. I think this is my fifth post on my little ole 33″ square piece. Oy. Last week I showed all my…