Shows
Gold Bug Quilt Show-2014
The Fall Quilt Show Season has opened! It’s been awhile since I’ve been to a show so it was especially nice to be able to briefly visit the Gold Bug show. They were in a new location this year and it was fabulous-lots of great light and more vendors than I remember. And they had…
Read MorePlease Don’t Try This at Home, or, How to Care for Your Slider
Sometimes I have a forehead-slap moment. This has been a tough week. I have many simultaneous projects/commitments and I’m trying to finish a piece for the Pacific International Quilt Festival deadline-yeah, that’s 12 days from now. So I’m petal-to-the-metal trying to get this piece done. My plan for this piece is to create acres of…
Read MoreJudge not?
I know many quilters are reluctant to have their work judged. I want to actually encourage you to consider having your work judged. Some quilters will bristle at this, but I have found that I have learned a lot from having my work judged. There is a belief by some that judges are evil Quilt…
Read MoreEast Bay Heritage Quilt Show 2014-Post Script
Some of you may have noticed that my post on the East Bay Heritage Quilt Show, Voices in Cloth, has disappeared. There’s a story there. The guild had printed on their program that photos of quilts were not to be shown without specific permission from individual makers. Oops-that did not hit my consciousness and I…
Read MoreFoothill Quilt Guild Show-2014
I had a wonderful weekend filled with two quilt shows and a gathering with old friends. I attended the American Sewing Guild luncheon and got to catch up with sewing friends I hadn’t seen in awhile. I then took a lovely 90 minute drive back in full tilt glorious spring weather to see the Foothill…
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