Quilts and Art Quilts
The Grandson Project
This was a fun one! My Grandson is learning his alphabet and one of my students, Traci, practiced her free motion quilting by making quilted letters for her Grandson. I totally, 100% got the idea from Traci; thank you! I started out by just using batting between two layers of fabric, but I thought…
Read MoreLabor Day family visit and Houston prep
It’s been a super busy week but there are not that many photos to share. My son prefers that no photos of children be posted online; you know how people can do bad things with them. But I do have a few photos to share. We had the most wonderful get together; it was a…
Read MoreA fabulous seminar, more applique/trapunto work, preparing for a family gathering and The Biggest Takeaway from the seminar!
What a faaaaaantastic week I’ve had (if you go Th to Th)! I had 18 talented, eager, prepared, well equipped and enthusiastic students for a 2-day Seminar at Meissner Sewing‘s main location in Sacramento. I billed it as a beginner’s class, but about half of the students had experience, several of them quite talented…
Read MoreApplique/Trapunto, Part 2
NOTE: I won’t have a newsletter this week; I just realized there is no way I can do it; I will be teaching all day Fri and Sat. Sorry! I had a chance to work on my applique/trapunto piece this week and all I want to do is quilt it! I chose a luscious…
Read MoreA week of this n that
It has been a week of variety: a guild visit, hand applique/trapunto and beginning to prep student kits for Houston. My visit to the Amador Valley Quilters was so much fun! I stayed with my friend Jeanne and we solved all of the world’s problems over the kitchen table. The guild meets in Pleasanton,…
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