Judging – My thoughts and my latest judging comments

  After another competition quilter revealed her judging comments last week, it got me thinking. I have a well-reasoned opinion on judging, for me. These are my thoughts about my quilts being judged. I think they might be useful, or at least entertaining for you. I don’t have a lot of interesting photos about judging, so…

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“Peace for Ukraine” quilt is finished!

  NOTE: I will not be writing a blog post or newsletter next week as I will be in Paducah! If you want to follow along, I’ll be posting on Facebook and Instagram. My donation to Pokey Bolton’s Handmade for Ukraine fundraiser is a wrap! I’m pleased with the result: As always, it was not…

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Success, bleeding, failure and unexpected resurrection

It’s been an up and down week. After months of dithering, I took the chance and tried to remove the blue wash out marks from my WHITE SILK quilt with cotton backing, cotton fabrics and wool batting. How’s that for a complicated mix. Oh, did I mention, there were several bleeders in there? I have…

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Nobody bats a thousand

  It’s been an interesting week. I took a great class from Cristina Arcenegui Bono from Spain – online of course. Gotta admit, I am getting tired of zoom, but sometimes it is so worth it to take teachers you would never be able to take otherwise. And it was worth it to take Cristina’s…

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Endings, finishes, a new family member and Empty Spools!!

I’ve never gone 2 weeks without posting before, so this is a first. No one reads blogs during the Holidays! I’m back and a lot has happened: First, I must introduce our new family member: Yahaha is a 2 yr old Australian Shepherd female. We heard about her through a local source and we got…

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