Turning a corner

I’ll be in Long Beach this week so this will be a shorter post. I want to share my fix for rounded corners when free motion quilting. Here’s what I mean: It’s common to get these kinds of rounded corners or angles. Even though you absolutely stitched that corner, your machine rounds that corner off.…

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Pointless Sisters, a park and SAQA meeting

What a week! The printer died, the new one wouldn’t load and my email went down…right before I left to teach a workshop for The Pointless Sisters. As a teacher, I have to be highly organized. I  don’t procrastinate. I create lists, summaries and reminders for each gig and I print them out shortly before…

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Craft Napa 2018

How do I describe Craft Napa? It’s fun, exhiliarating, encouraging, inspiring and maybe a wee bit fattening! You meet new friends, see friends from previous years, enjoy spontaneous lunches with people you didn’t know before, peek into other classrooms and immerse yourself in creativity. I was  struck by the vibe I got from walking around…

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Family Time

I’ve had a quiet, low-key and positively lovely Christmas! Youngest son is here for a nice visit and we went to Christmas Eve services together, then grabbed Hubby and drove around looking at lights. Our usual Christmas Eve dinner has been “Chicken Dot Soup” (their childhood name for chicken soup with Acini Di Pepe pasta–like little…

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I’ll be back!

I’m vacationing in Tucson for a few days with my friend Jan. I’ll be back next week to tell you all about it!

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