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The Virtual Houston Quilt Festival – my view
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…
Read MoreHouston and hikes!
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…
Read MoreTeaching, taking and fall
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…
Read MoreTrapunto revival!
Last week I wrote about how my friend and dyer Linda Waddle kindly offered to over-dye my languishing whole cloth trapunto quilt. The silk had faded from a delightful icy blue to a putrid yellow/blue/gray mix. Linda and I rolled on thickened dye as a Hail Mary move – what did I have to lose?…
Read MoreThe Santa Barbara Quilt Retreat and Betty Busby
I had a grand time at the Santa Barbara Quilting Retreat a few weeks ago when I studied with Betty Busby. Betty is a very popular teacher and I knew her a little bit from SAQA, so I was pretty sure I was going to enjoy the class. It exceeded my expectations for several reasons.…
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