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- A Finish!
- Tucson Christmas, 2025
- The Wedding!
- Quilt National at the San Jose Quilt and Textile Museum
- Holiday this ‘n that
- Thanksgiving 2025
- Pioneer Quilt Show – 2025
- Maybe next week
- New England Quilt Seminar – 2025
- Houston Int’l Quilt Festival 2025: Market, classes and people
- Houston Int’l Quilt Show 2025: The Quilts, Part 3
- Houston Int’l Quilt Show 2025: The Quilts, Part 2
- Houston Int’l Quilt Show 2025: The Quilts, Part 1
- This ‘n that, including The Dress and The Shoes!
- Prepping for upcoming gigs and a peek into my garden
- The Delta Quilters Guild Show
- Vacay 2025 Part 3 – Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska
- Vacay 2025 – Part 4 – The Iowa Quilt Museum
- Vacay Part 2 – Quilt National, 2025.
- Vacay 2025, Part 1 – Denver
- San Fernando Valley Quilt Association; NCQC Promoting Your Guild Panel
- A this ‘n that week
- UFO’s – I’m not so sure they all need to be finished
- Two guilds and an unexpected adventure
- Dress shopping….
- Beginning of Summer glory, 2025
- Sierra Gold Quilt Guild and life around the Lyon house
- AQS Paducah, 2025, Part 2 – the people, teaching, the show quilts
- Paducah – the city, the porches, the food, Yeiser Art Center and the National Quilt Museum
- A busy this ‘n that week!
- The San Francisco Quilters Guild Show – 2025
- The Yuba-Sutter Valley Quilt Guild Show – 2025
- Empty Spools 2025
- I completed a quilt judging course!
- A Finish!
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2025 – Large quilt room
- A visit to the Valley Oaks Quilt Guild (Tulare, CA)
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2025 – Judging, Set up/Preview Party, Small Quilt Room, and Fashion Show
- Family time – El Paso
- Progress on the endless blue silk quilt
- Catching up!
- Christmas in Tucson and progress on my applique
- I ran out of steam
- I’m back: Teaching, applique and working with a new-to-me thread
- A Very Special Occasion!
- Happy Thanksgiving! An unexpected post – Two (small) finishes, Orange County and beautiful fall color
- Pioneer Quilters Guild Show – 2024
- The Houston Int’ Quilt Festival – the experience
- Houston International Quilt Festival, 2024; The Quilts, Part 2
- Houston International Quilt Festival, 2024; The Quilts, Part 1
- Last minute prep before Houston!
- A Finish! I think.
- Still working it…..
- Maybe this will work….
- Hodge podge of a week with some highlights
- The Grandson Project
- Labor Day family visit and Houston prep
- A fabulous seminar, more applique/trapunto work, preparing for a family gathering and The Biggest Takeaway from the seminar!
- Applique/Trapunto, Part 2
- A week of this n that
- Update and follow-up on air erasable pens
- Pacific International Quilt Festival 2024
- Testing air erasable markers – a clear winner and a clear loser
- Visiting the Country Crossroads Quilters (Modesto) and stalled out on my silk flowers
- A finish – an accidental Fourth of July quilt!
- Visiting Grands and a very old silk project
- I’ll be back!
- An altered dress finish!
- The Carson Valley Quilt Guild Show – 2024
- Visiting the Friendship Square Quilt Guild, a finish and a cool new product!
- The Roseville Quilters Guild Show, 2024
- Visiting the Santa Clarita Valley Quilt Guild
- A finish!
- Pine Tree Quilt Guild Show 2024
- The Loom Quilt & Fiber Guild show, 2024
- Spring in NorCal
- A whole lot of this n that
- Visiting the Rossmoor Quilt Association and my family’s Easter
- Me, applique?!
- AQS Branson – The show!
- AQS Branson 2024 – Teaching and traveling
- Empty Spools 2024
- Nebraska adventure
- The Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2024 – Part 2; Large Quilt Room
- The Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2024 – Part 1; Small Quilt Room and Wearables
- The very beginning of a new quilt and some interesting purchases
- This ‘n that
- A Finish!
- My one day trip to The Getty and Sewing Arts in Los Angeles
- A charity quilt and a mini tour of my Christmas home
- Quilt Blocking Revisited
- A circuitous route – Blue silk quilt
- The Pioneer Quilters Guild Quilt Show 2023
- Three products of note (to me!) at the Houston Market
- Houston In’tl Quilt Festival 2023 – The experience
- Houston Int’l Quilt Festival 2023 – The Quilts, Part 2
- Houston Int’l Quilt Festival 2023 – The Quilts, Part 1
- Pacific Int’l Quilt Festival, 2023, Part 2
- Pacific Int’l Quilt Festival, 2023, Part 1
- The 2023 Sierra Gold Quilters Guild show
- Frustration abounds
- Visiting the Quilters Etc guild and a Work In Process
- The River City Quilt Show 2023
- It’s Quilt Show Season and a finish! Sutter Buttes Quilt Guild
- Nearing the finish line on the “yet unnamed vintage tulip quilt”
- A Judge’s comments on judging the Houston Show
- Adventures in St. Louis!
- Sorry!
- Adventures with my vintage quilt top
- Denver – again! Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum – Again!
- Denver! Quilting Arts TV taping, visit to the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and a magical dinner
- Long Beach, 2023!
- Kitchen details!
- A fun visit to the Sierra Gold Quilters Guild
- Teaching and taking – Two teaching gigs and a fun sashiko class
- Six useful products or techniques I used to quilt my vintage quilt
- A 3-day seminar, a lecture, progress on my vintage quilt and my kitchen
- Vintage Tulip Quilt, my spring yard and kitchen cabinets!
- Empty Spools 2023
- Easter and a whole lot of this ‘n that
- The San Francisco Quilt Guild Show – 2023
- The Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2023
- The Indiana Heritage Quilt Show 2023
- AQS Daytona Beach, 2023
- Embrace your Visible Learning Curve!
- Visits to Chico and Paso Robles, CA
- Three shows, one venue – Gallery at Natomas 48 in Folsom, CA
- Playtime!
- Craft Napa Sheer Paneled Jackets and new work
- Diva Demos for NCQC
- Quilt Coat – A finish!
- A San Diego Christmas!
- Visions Art Museum, San Diego
- Quilt Coat toile and a little bit of life around the Lyon home
- Quilt Coat and other adventures – Part 1, “It’s Rachel’s fault”
- This ‘n that – Thanksgiving and beyond
- Houston Int’l Quilt Festival 2022 – The Quilts, Part 2
- Houston Int’l Quilt Festival 2022 – The Quilts, Part 1
- Pacific Int’l Quilt Festival 2022 – Part 2!
- Pacific Int’l Quilt Festival 2022 – Part 1
- Small quilt edge treatment
- Featured Quilter at the Mother Lode Quilters’ Guild, 2022
- The River City Guild Quilters Guild Show – 2022
- Angst
- Hillary Goodwin/QuiltCon Trunk Show and colorful kits for Houston
- Sheer medallion finished!
- My kitchen, quilts, kits and cooking
- A little finish, a little teaching, a new project and more
- Long Beach Quilt Festival, 2022!
- Denver trip, 2022 – Family, friends, quilts, baseball and RAIN!
- The California State Fair, 2022
- Yet another finish!
- A Finish!
- Pressing – you need the right tools
- A Finish and some fun!
- Stitch Length – Yes, it matters
- The Carson Valley Quilt Show – 2022
- Blooming Sheers with the Israeli Quilter’s Association
- So why should you even care about judging and contests anyway?
- Judging – My thoughts and my latest judging comments
- A Finish and what’s up next
- Paducah Quilt Week 2022 – The experience
- “Peace for Ukraine” quilt is finished!
- Irene Roderick’s Dancing With the Wall class
- Demos, design, organization and RV’s?
- The Carson City Quilt Guild, Stunning views and a SAQA donation piece finished!
- Success, bleeding, failure and unexpected resurrection
- Surfside Quilters Guild, San Clemente
- The Valley Quilt Guild’s 2022 Show
- Empty Spools 2022 – The beauty of Asilomar
- Empty Spools 2022 – Teaching
- “Blooming Sheers” at Meissner’s
- A Relaxing Retreat – the South Valley Quilt Association
- Packing, prep, goodie bags and angst
- Nobody bats a thousand
- Quilting is finished!
- Craft Napa 2022
- Packing…..
- Endings, finishes, a new family member and Empty Spools!!
- A day at the Bay and life at the Lyon house
- Dyeing, failure, destroying quilts and trademarks
- Thanksgiving, a finish and a few other projects in progress
- Pacific International Quilt Festival 2021
- Houston Quilt Festival Part 2: Quilts, Classes and People
- Houston Quilt Festival, 2021, Part 1: Miniatures, Best Use of Color and Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
- Visiting Glacier National Park…in the fall!
- Book Review: Adventures in Improv Quilts by Cindy Grisdela
- My Montana Adventure – Part 1, teaching
- Packing, memories and teaching
- 3 days of free motion quilting fun!
- My Seminar launches today!
- 3 Day Seminars with me!
- Being a marbling spectator and beginning new work
- A show, a SAQA meeting show ‘n tell, a class and 2 finishes!
- I hit a wall and ended up with a great jacket!
- Rotary cutter stand-off: We have a winner!
- A county fair, a Time Out and Houston prep
- Ruler work, a garment and a quilt
- Working with sheers and a new machine!
- There actually was blood drawn….
- Quilting Density – It makes a difference!
- Yoga and the Art of Free Motion Quilting
- A Couching Adventure
- My SAQA donation quilt and a class with Joe Cunningham
- Really Big News!!!
- Another fail – will I ever finish my SAQA Auction quilt?
- El Paso, The Return of the Teabags and, another (temporary) fail
- A very green trip to the Midwest!
- SAQA Auction Quilt and a preview video of my on-demand class!
- My class videos are done! Road trip coming!
- A spectacular spring for my drought tolerant yard
- Failure, photos, flowers and a vintage top
- Shocker – TWO Finishes!
- Playing with sheers and a new project
- A winner and another finished project!
- A finish, imperfection, VLC and a give away!
- Another finish! SAQA Spotlight Donation 2021
- A quilt show, a finish and Spring eye candy
- Feet!
- I played hookie…and I liked it!
- Taking and making…
- Lots ‘o teaching..
- Teaching and taking
- The computer’s away and Jenny will play
- I’m having some fun!
- My LAURASTAR arrived!
- Appliquilting with Cristina Arcenegui Bono
- Highs and lows, finishes and starts
- What a week!
- Final Finishes for 2020
- A wild ride!
- Christmas 2020 style
- Inktense and a Christmas table runner
- The Virtual Houston Quilt Festival – my view
- Houston and hikes!
- Thanksgiving and pies
- Free Motion Cutwork and Thread Choices
- Teaching, taking and fall
- A Blast From the Past and Wayne Thiebaud at the Crocker
- This ‘n that
- Babies and other pretty things
- Babies and bubbles
- Life – Virtual and otherwise
- A fruitful week!
- Trapunto revival!
- A few fun things!
- Live online teaching: I like it, I like it!
- The Global Quilt Connection’s Meet the Teacher event and finally, my 3 minute video!
- Zooming, the Global Quilt Connection Meet the Teachers event and a rant
- A finish, a fire, scorch protection and Craft Napa 2021
- I miss travel and meeting strangers
- Ready to teach – online!!
- Good thread, bad thread and choosing the right design
- Give Away – Teri Lucas’ Color, Thread & Free-Motion Quilting!
- Two finishes and pondering my next move
- A trip to California’s mid-coast
- Applipops Give-Away!
- Two new projects, Quilt From the Back and more
- Two things
- Two finishes!
- A few more fails, a fix and a finish
- Knees, Fails, Paint and Pops!
- Finished – Much in Common!
- Quarantine Quilting, Week 9: In the home stretch!
- Quarantine Quilting – Week 8: Details!
- Quarantine Quilting Week 7: Stippling, Knots and Hikes
- Quarantine Quilting Week 6: Plodding along and a machine cleaning tip
- Quarantine Quilting Week 5 – Four projects at once?
- Quarantine Quilting Week 4 – Frustration and a finish (almost)
- Quarantine Quilting – Week 3, scattered, organizing and playing
- Part 2: Quarantine quilting – the tale of a scattered serial quilter
- Quarantine quilting – the tale of a scattered serial quilter
- Quarantine sewing
- Aloft, a SAQA Exhibit
- AQS Daytona Beach, 2020
- The Santa Barbara Quilt Retreat and Betty Busby
- The Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2020 – Part 2, Large Quilt Room
- The Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2020 – Part 1, Small Quilt Room, Wearables and other treasures
- Visiting the Haute Couture Societe, wearable art!
- El Paso, surgery and play
- Craft Napa 2020
- Craft Napa prep and play
- Reviews: Generic ruler foot and Acorn Easy Press Fabric Treatment
- A failure, a finish and the future
- Failure actually is an option
- Welcome Miss Zoe!
- Pioneer Quilters Guild Show – 2019
- A creative explosion
- I forgot!
- Houston 2019, Part 3: More Quilts!
- Houston 2019, Part 2: Quilts!
- Houston 2019, Part 1: Market, New Products and People
- PIQF 2019 – Part 1
- Houston prep and some good news!
- Teaching and a visit to Quilting in the Garden
- The Quilt and Fabric Art Festival 2019
- What bleeding, silk and Houston have in common
- Trapunto donation quilt for the Int’l Quilt Association
- A little Midwestern trip, post Grand Rapids Show
- AQS Grand Rapids
- Bakersfield – the Cotton Patch Quilters of Kern County
- Feathers: New samples, thread, needles and fills
- Counting…and a very awkward confession
- More about balanced thread tension
- California State Fair – 2019
- Bend, OR – Vacation and Art
- Jenny packs for a car trip
- Rancho Cucomonga, the Nite Owl Quilters and Six Flags Vallejo
- SAQA Exhibit: Tranquility and Turmoil at Grants Pass, OR
- Quite the Adventure: Rogue Valley Piecemakers, Grants Pass, OR
- When a quilt moves into “Relationship Status”
- RNK changes their thread labels and, Trapunto trouble
- Thread manufacturers, please listen!
- Roseville Quilters Guild Show 2019
- “My” Jennifer Sampou quilt is at Quilt Market right now!
- SAQA Conference 2019 – Part 2
- SAQA Conference 2019 – Part 1
- Two finishes and, I’m on my way to San Jose!
- Two almost finishes, Plan A, B, C…… and yes, I have a problem
- Tucson – art, hiking, a hotel and an eviction!
- Tucson, in brief
- Frustrated!
- I give up! Perseverance does not always win.
- An Orange Co. adventure with the Flying Geese Quilters Guild
- 3 tips for successful free motion quilting that are often overlooked
- Don’t worry about these three things in your free motion quilting!
- The Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2019 – Small Quilt Room
- The Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2019 – The Large Quilt Room and Garments
- It’s never a straight line, and, my episode on The Quilt Show airs this weekend!!!
- A Most Amazing Day – My Book Signing
- Forgiveness, Grace and Imperfection
- Craft Napa 2019
- Travel and Trapunto
- Craft Napa donation quilt – 2019
- Tuscon, Christmas 2018
- The Other Vegas-An outdoor adventure
- Judging…again, and a Blog Hop Winner!
- Lyric Kinard’s Start Your Art Cards prompt a finish
- My Blog Hop starts today! Want a free book?
- Houston Quilt Festival 2018, the quilts, Part 2
- Houston Quilt Festival 2018, the quilts, Part 1
- Houston Market and Teaching-2018
- Off to Houston!
- A Feathers Four Ways class and Houston prep
- Visiting the Westside Quilters (Los Angeles)
- The Monterey Museum of Art
- Visiting the Monterey Peninsula Quilters Guild, Pacific Grove, Ca
- Quilting in the Garden-2018
- IQA Donation Quilt 2018
- Taping for The Quilt Show!!
- Quick trip to Austin
- Dead Tired!
- Start With a Square
- Bend/Sunriver-Family, Fun, Museums and Art
- The Visible Learning Curve
- Hot Fun at the California State Fair
- I juried into Houston!
- Chicago: BERNINA Univ, Meis van der Rohe and Naperville
- Reno-Teaching and hiking
- Off to BERNINA U!
- The Men’s Quilts and Wa Shonaji Exhibits at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
- Sometimes you can blame the fabric…
- So what is the perfect stitch length for free motion quilting?
- News about my book, friends in my studio and a new quilt
- Visiting Colorado-The Quilting Council and Family
- Packing and fixing tension
- Faith Ringgold Exhibit at The Crocker
- Maybe next week will be better
- Pacific Piecemakers and a visit to Gualala
- TEXtiles Exhibit by the Texas Region of SAQA
- SAQA Conference 2018-San Antonio
- Super fun, full visit to the Santa Clara Valley Quilter’s Association
- Visit to Ft Meyers-SW Fla Quilters’ Guild
- Valley Quilt Guild (Yuba City) Show 2018-Red and White!
- Hair!
- Everything you need to know about marking on black fabric
- New Work!
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2018, Part 2-Large Quilt Room
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2018-Small Quilt Room, Garments and Fashion Show
- Turning a corner
- Pointless Sisters, a park and SAQA meeting
- A wee bit of progress on my wholecloth
- Craft Napa 2018
- Craft Napa here I come!
- Of resolutions, goals and life lessons
- Family Time
- Catching up-Charity quilting
- I’m working on it!
- Pioneer Quilt Guild Show 2017
- River City Quilt Show 2017
- I’ll be back!
- Houston Int’l Quilt Festival 2017-The Quilts, Part 2
- Houston Int’l Quilt Festival 2017-The Quilts, Part 1
- Houston Quilt Festival-2017-The experience!
- Houston here I come!
- Sanity Sewing
- PIQF 2017 Part 1-Quilts of Northern Ca and More
- Sierra Gold Quilters Guild Show 2017
- Sutter Breast Cancer Auction 2017
- If it’s Fall, I must be….
- Annual Textile Exhibition-Olive Hyde Gallery
- SoCal Adventure
- Binding and Writing and Article in Quilting Arts Magazine!
- Of Binding and Short Cuts
- Exhibit at the Sisters Quilting Collective-“Never, Ever Forget”
- Ahhh, Lake Tahoe
- I’ll Be Back
- Still Writing…And Piecing
- Still Writing…
- California State Fair-2017
- Meet the Teachers
- Tough Week
- Yes, I’m Late!
- Focus on Fiber 2017
- Korean Voices in Fiber at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center
- Markers, Chemicals and Our Quilts
- Learning From My Students
- Roseville Quilters Guild Show 2017
- How to Choose the Right Sewing Machine for You
- Chester Quilters and a New Basset
- SAQA Conference 2017-International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska
- Patsy Thompson’s Quilt Suspension System and a Beautiful Spring!
- Bay Quilts!
- 42 Hours to Pack?
- A Favorite Tool and Some Student Work
- A Girl and Her Jeans
- Chilling with Quilting Arts TV!
- I’ll be back!!
- Tucson and Beyond
- Travel Ahead!
- News, Something New, a New Newsletter…and an Epilogue
- 2017 Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show-The Big Quilt Room
- 2017 Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show-Small Quilts, Wearables, Other
- Selling a Quilt
- Country Crossroads Quilters Show-2016
- Craft Napa 2017
- Real Life-New Year’s and Beyond
- 2016 Year-End Review-A wild ride!
- Santa Fe, Bandelier National Monument and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento
- Late Fall Beauty in Northern California
- BERNINA Ambassador’s Reunion-2016
- Palm Springs, The Living Desert, Joshua Tree, 1000 Palms Oasis and the Huntington Gardens
- Thankful and Blessed!
- “Color Doesn’t Matter”
- “The Art Quilt Revolution” at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
- New Threads-A Review of Quilters Select and Microquilter by Superior
- Trends, Trunk Show and my new machine!!
- Mosi Jogakbo (Korean Wrapping Cloths) with Youngmin Lee
- Fashion Show with Viktorya Allen
- Goldbug Quilters Show-2016
- A Chicago Wedding
- Batting in the Garden
- Nothing but prep…
- San Diego and an Open House
- Accepted!
- Organza Dyeing-Again
- “A willingness to look stupid”
- Dying Organza and a few new things in my studio
- Yvonne Porcella Tribute Quilt and a few new toys
- Studio Improvements!
- Working my way through “Art and Fear”
- Work and play
- Progress, kinda
- Vignettes old and new
- A Change of Direction
- Post New Car Buying Stress Syndrome-It’s Real People!
- Teaching Travels-The Sundial Bridge, Redding, Ca
- Update-Houston and Beyond
- SAQA Donation Quilt-187 Bald Men in the Rain
- Three Handy Tools
- Two Big Brags!
- Vallejo Piecemakers Guild Show 2016
- Pine Tree Quilt Guild Show 2016
- Oh the Joys of Blocking a Quilt!
- Catching my breath
- Chicago Quilt Festival 2016 and a Hometown Visit
- Chicago IQF and a few other things
- QBI-The Quiet Beauty of the Imperfect
- Sisters Quilting Collective Show-2016
- Cutwork Article in Quilter’s Newsletter Monthly!
- A “Lost Spring” and Other First World Problems
- QuiltCon 2016-Part 2
- QuiltCon 2016-Part 1
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show 2016-The Big Quilt Room
- Improv Piecing and a “Boot”
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show-2016: Small Quilt Room and Wearables
- Moving
- Craft Napa-a soul filling experience
- Catherine Redford’s Modern Machine Quilting DVD and a Give Away
- Change
- Juried in!
- Polka dot obsession
- Change ahead
- In search of the “perfect” quilt sandwich
- Craft Napa and a $500 Giveaway!
- Houston Quilt Festival 2015-Part 4-The Quilts
- Houston Quilt Festival 2015-Part 3-The Quilts
- Houston Quilt Festival 2015-Part 2-The Quilts
- Houston International Quilt Festival-The Experience-Part 1
- I’m at the International Quilt Festival in Houston!
- IQA Donation Quilt-2015-“Windswept”
- Prairie Afternoon-My 2015 PIQF entry
- Sierra Gold Quilt Show-2015
- It’s all about the puff
- Elk Grove Quilt Guild Show-2015
- Gold Bug Quilt Show 2015
- Rejection and “That’s not my best work”
- Sandwiches and Moderns
- Exciting news-CRAFT NAPA!
- Check back!
- Chaos, debris and cutwork
- Frixion Pens-All you need to know
- North to Alaska
- Make it square
- It is not fly-over country-Visiting Chicago
- A tale about my Houston entry
- Two finishes and a few debacles
- Simple is not always easy!
- Joy, imperfection and an interlude
- Problems, of course!
- Good Thread and Working Offline
- Thread Geek Speak
- And we have a winner!
- All over the map
- A picture is worth a thousand words?
- Give-Away: The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters
- Fiberlandia/Portland
- Traveling-again, and a Give-Away soon!
- Quilting Adventures in Montana
- Teaching and Travel
- Ooops!
- 2015 SAQA Benefit Auction Donation Quilt
- Double Happy Dance-Published and Installed!
- Frustrated!
- “Do what you know”
- Class with Judy Coates Perez
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show-2015-Part 3
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show-2015-Part 2
- Quilt show season begins-Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild-Small Quilts
- Travel and Trapunto
- Deadlines and Decisions-Poppies Revisited
- Samples, Threads, Rulers and Cards
- Antique and Modern Amish Quilts at San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
- Oct/Nov/Dec Design Master Class
- SAQA Regional Exhibit, “JOURNEYS”, in Tucson
- Tucson!
- Play Time!
- The River City Quilt Show-2014
- Another brag…
- Houston International Quilt Festival 2014-The quilts
- Houston International Quilt Festival 2014-Teaching
- PIQF 2014-the rest of the story
- PIQF-Part 1: Abstract and Wholecloth
- I’m off to Houston!
- Published and Prepping
- All my brags at once!
- Elizabeth Barton’s Design Master Class-Oct-“Pre Dawn”
- 2014 Houston International Quilt Show Donation Quilt-Eco Print
- Frixion pens (again) and simple quilting
- Don’t tell me I can’t do that!
- Artist’s Date-“Bird’s Eye View: Aerial Art”
- Creating “Poppies”
- Gold Bug Quilt Show-2014
- August Master Design Class
- Please Don’t Try This at Home, or, How to Care for Your Slider
- Not-so-fast fixes
- Taking a Creative Breather
- July Design Master Class-Final
- June Design Master Class-Final
- Sketches for July-Design Master Class
- Tutorial-3 ways to quilt pearls
- Prep, Playing and Posture
- June Design Master Class-Value-Part 1
- Judge not?
- May Master Design Class-Flying Low
- Fern Tutorial-For Beginners With Experience and Beyond!
- Being A Mindful Quilter
- Quick redo of a Target dress
- Basting a quilt with Mistyfuse
- Elizabeth Barton Design Master Class-April-“Morning Hosta”
- Mini Breeze
- March Assignment-Design Master Class
- East Bay Heritage Quilt Show 2014-Post Script
- SAQA Benefit Auction Quilt Donation-2014
- Foothill Quilt Guild Show-2014
- Good News!
- Maine Girl Quilt-The Finish
- Feb Assignment-Design Master Class: “Maine Girl” Quilt
- An Inch is NOT an Inch!
- 2014 Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show-Part 2
- 2014 Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show
- Of mission statements, the internet and showing your art
- Learning Something New
- Markers-Don’t believe what you read!
- SAQA Anniversary Quilt
- My Take on Trapunto
- Quick Gifts and a Book Review
- Tab Hauler and a Golden Mommy Moment
- PIQF-2013, Part 2
- PIQF 2013-Part 1
- River City Quilt Show-2013
- Bailey Island Hobo Bag-A Finish!
- Free Motion Quilted Radiance Christmas Stocking
- A Tailgate Critique
- Houston International Quilt Festival-The Quilts-Part 2
- Houston International Quilt Festival 2013-The Quilts!
- Houston International Quilt Festival 2013-Part 1-The Experience
- A Ribbon and the Story Behind the Quilt!
- Cut Work Christmas Table Topper
- Quilt Blocking for the Insane
- Two Donations and My Classes in Houston!
- Tutorial-Applying a Quilt Hanging Sleeve
- Two Quick Quilts-Kinda
- Yes, I Am Easily Amused
- Sneak Peek at “Morning Breeze”
- Venturing Into Unknown Territory
- West Texas Visit!
- Long Beach-2013!
- Long Beach Here I Come!
- Shameless Self Promotion-Long Beach Version
- A Quilting Romp
- Yippee-2013 California State Fair!
- Prepping For Long Beach
- Long Beach and Houston!
- Scissor Lust
- A Waist Stay and A Finish
- Dressing For Hot Summer Days
- Maine!
- Squaring up “Morning Breeze”
- Pencil, Practice and Process
- 2013 Pine Tree Quilt Guild Show
- Santa Fe Overload
- Santa Fe Textures
- Serial Monogamy For Quilters
- Shelter
- A Few Ideas
- Entwined
- “Put Your Best Foot Forward”-Come See It!
- Hope Springs Eternal
- Spring In Full Bloom-the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery
- Foothill Quilt Guild Show-2013
- Detour
- SAQA Donation Quilt-2013
- Playing With Sheers and Wool
- My Torturous Trek to Terrific Thread Tension
- I’m Published!
- I’ll Be Teaching in Houston and Long Beach!
- Fearless Students!
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show-2013-Part 2
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show-2013-Part 1
- 2012 SAQA Whisper Challenge
- Little Orange Tree Quilt
- The “65 Minute Top”
- Jewel Box
- Work In Process-Playing With Thread and Color
- Don’t Laugh!
- Bare Beauty
- My Cape Caper
- Free Motion Quilting Challenge Summary for 2012
- December Free Motion Quilting Challenge
- Two More Tips: Lights and Blades
- Tri Tips
- Even Better Thread Storage
- Thread Tension Epiphany
- A Chuckle
- Quilt Mission Statements?
- Review: The Morgan Marking System
- Two Tiny Tips
- November Free Motion Quilting Challenge
- The River City Quilters’ Guild Show-2012
- Pioneer Quilt Guild Show-2012
- Houston International Quilt Festival 2012-Part 3
- Houston International Quilt Festival 2012-Part 2
- Houston International Quilt Festival-Preview Night
- A New Tote for Houston
- Pre-Printed Panel Follow Up
- Four Reasons to Play with Pre-Printed Panels
- PIQF-Part 2
- PIQF 2012-Part 1
- PIQF-I Ribboned!
- October Free Motion Quilting Challenge
- The 10-Minute Quilt Label
- Making It Straight-Quilt Blocking
- Free Motion Quilting Challenge -Sept
- Saving A Pillow With Sharpies
- Isn’t It Supposed To Be Fall?
- A Tale of Two T-Shirts
- Lessons Learned: Marking
- Gold Bug Quilt Show
- I’m a Believer
- Sneak Peek-Lily Quilt
- August Free Motion Quilting Challenge
- 8 Signs of a Fabulous Vacation
- Daisy Table Topper
- Tutorial: Narrow Rolled Hem
- Gauzy Summer Vest
- Minky Messes
- IQF Long Beach 2012-Part 2
- IQF-Long Beach-I’m Still Vibrating!
- July Free Motion Quilting Challenge
- Give Away: Table Runner For Long Beach
- Come See My Work at Blue Line Gallery!
- Convergence: Parenting and Making Art
- I’m Going To Be In Houston After All!
- 6 Unexpected Lessons
- June’s Free Motion Quilting Challenge
- Roseville Quilters Guild Show
- Working With Radiance-Stabilizing
- Flutter Tutorial-Round 2
- Flutter!
- Crying In My Beer
- Marking, A Cool Tool and Jazz
- May Free Motion Quilting Challenge
- Quilting Bliss
- Summer Sewing Time
- Pine Tree Quilt Guild Show
- Daisy Scarf Update/Conclusions
- Superior University-April Project
- Free Motion Quilt Challenge-April
- Wearing My Work-Finally
- Success…and Failure
- Foothill Quilt Show
- “Just Show Up”
- Update: Frixion Pen Test and Wobbly Lines
- Free Motion Quilting Challenge-March
- Spring Show Season-Valley Quilt Guild Show
- Three Completed Projects!
- Whisper Challenge Quilt-SAQA
- Superior University/Fabric Cards
- Male Call: Quilts Made By Men (Golden, CO)
- Daisy Fill Vest
- Blocking Saw Tooth Star
- Free Motion Quilting Challenge-February
- 24 Inches…..an Hour
- Wahoo and A Book Review
- Assembled Slice Quilt
- Slice Quilt Finished-Almost
- From Shred to Slice
- Trials and Tribulations While Shredding Thread
- Saw Tooth Star Progress
- Saw Tooth Star-Lessons Learned
- Christmas Decorating Challenged
- Me-Precision Piecing?
- Work In Progress–With a Little Help
- River City Quilt Festival
- Yet Another Learning Curve-Done!
- Yet Another Learning Curve-Part 2
- Yet Another Learning Curve, Sigh
- Pioneer Quilters Guild Show
- Learning From Diane Gaudynski
- Pacific International Quilt Festival-Part 2
- PIQF Part 1-World Quilt Collection Photos
- Traveling and Paducah
- Red Letter Day!
- It’s Fall!
- Come See My Work!
- Elk Grove Quilt Show
- Free Motion Daisy Fill Tutorial
- Quilting and Probation Hearings?!
- Bend Oregon Vacation
- ASG Garment Group Fashion Show
- IQF-Long Beach-The Show
- IQF-Long Beach-Saturday Night Sampler
- Off To Long Beach!
- California State Fair!
- Play Day and Prep
- Linen-offensive?
- SAQA Donation Quilt
- This n That
- I’m Back!
- Breaking in Jane
- SAQA and Jazz
- Playing With Sheers
- Summer Sewing
- Last Show of the Season-Pine Tree
- New Machine, a Novel Thread Treatment and Mikey
- Learning from Linda and Sharon
- Show Time! Foothill and Loomis Guilds
- Catching Up
- A Visit With Rachel Clark
- Spring Quilt Show Season Begins!
- Mission Impossible-Pants That Fit
- Accepted: Paducah and Long Beach!
- Welcome To My Unconventional Studio
- Fabric Trip! Britex and Stone Mountain
- Details
- Seeing Red
- Folsom Quilt and Fiber Guild Show
- Epilogue
- Still Organizing….
- Organizing my Stash?!
- Good Vibrations 2
- Good Vibrations
- Santa Barbara
- Garment or Quilt?
- Learning Curve
- Houston Quilt Judging-True Confessions?!
- Quilt Whisperer: On-Line Learning Adventure
- Wishing I was in Houston…