Teaching Free Motion Quilting
Long Beach, 2023!
NOTE: I will have a newsletter this week, but may or may not have a blog post or newsletter next week. Then I will be back in town for a bit, finally! My newsletter really is the epicenter of my communication; you can sign up easy peasy here. I could already write a long essay…
Read MoreA fun visit to the Sierra Gold Quilters Guild
I had a fun visit to Amador County, “Gold Country”. It takes about an hour on mostly 2 lane roads to get to Pioneer, CA. The drive was so pretty – lots of flowers, a bit of still green grass and fields of grazing cattle. But no photos while I was driving! The grass…
Read MoreThe Indiana Heritage Quilt Show 2023
This was my first time to attend the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show and it lived up to the reviews I’d heard – smaller, but packed with lots of great quilts. Many of them were not the usual suspects, which I found refreshing. It is a petite venue, yet there seemed to be enough room to…
Read MoreVisits to Chico and Paso Robles, CA
I had two back-to-back in-person engagements this week and I am so happy to be teaching in person again! I truly love to teach, and I’m happy to teach virtually or in-person, each has its advantages. I started out in Chico with an evening lecture for the Annie’s Star Quilt Guild, a vibrant guild of…
Read MoreCraft Napa Sheer Paneled Jackets and new work
I love teaching at Craft Napa! For the foreseeable future it will continue to be virtual. Craft Napa students are unique: they tend to have large stashes of all manner of ephemera, paints, dyes, stamps, markers, screens and of course, fabric. This is a great example of why online classes can be fabulous. One…
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