Quilts and Art Quilts
This ‘n that, including The Dress and The Shoes!
What a wild week! And I don’t have many photos to show for it either. It was Labor Day and my Son, DIL and grands came to visit – yay!! It was such a lovely weekend. Being a Gramma is just Grand. My 4.5 yr old Grandson was just so busy! He looooooooves vehicles of…
Read MorePrepping for upcoming gigs and a peek into my garden
It’s prep time for me; the New England Quilt Seminar is coming up Sept 21 – 28 (that includes travel days), Houston follows on its heels 6 days later with my son’s wedding in Tucson just 5 days after that. So I have massive prep to do. That does not make for a sexy…
Read MoreThe Delta Quilters Guild Show
NOTE: I may not have a newsletter this week as I am teaching Friday and Saturday. I’ll play it by ear. I recently co-judged the Delta Quilters Guild show with 9 other judges. The DQG has a unique judging set up, using 10 volunteer judges who work in teams of 2, for ribbons only,…
Read MoreVacay 2025 – Part 4 – The Iowa Quilt Museum
My final stop – the Iowa Quilt Museum. I wrote about my other travels here, here, and here. The Iowa Quilt Museum is a display only museum; they do not collect quilts at all. I did not even realize there was such a category of museum. The Museum is located in a storefront on the…
Read MoreVacay Part 2 – Quilt National, 2025.
My last visit to Quilt National was 2021. QN is considered the world’s premiere showcase of the Best of Contemporary Art. Out of 695 quilts submitted, only 84 were chosen. What impressed me the most this year was the use of sheer material, which is right in the epicenter of my interests; the exhibit was…
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