Adventures with my vintage quilt top

I have a real challenge on my hands with my vintage quilt. Just to refresh your memory, this is the top I’m working on: And it has had its share of challenges. It is a bit wonky and it has some, um, creative piecing: I suspect the maker was close to running out of border…

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Empty Spools 2023

  Oh what a glorious week it was ! I was privileged to spend 5 fabulous days with 14 free motion quilting students and it was a blast. We sewed and laughed and ate and got to know each other and quilted and even enjoyed a 2 min solo from our resident Dramatic Soprano. We…

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The 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…

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AQS Daytona Beach, 2023

NOTES: I’m back in town and my store is open again! I only carry items I am passionate about. The most popular items are the Set Up Tips for Free Motion Quilting card, the Line Tamer ruler and the Supreme Slider. I still have stock on the Supreme Slider but once they are gone, they…

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Diva Demos for NCQC

  I am a Board member of the Northern California Quilt Council, and we we are a laison of sorts between teachers, guilds, shops and others in the Northern California quilting industry. When I first began to travel to teach in 2010, almost 100% of my gigs came through NCQC’s Meet the Teacher events. We…

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