I was invited to Lancaster, CA this past week to lecture and do a workshop for the Antelope Valley Quilt Association. A great group of people turned out for the meeting and the workshop on Saturday was a lot of fun. The workshop was the ‘Dresden Garden’ quilt. It showcases an easy dresden plate technique …
At some point last year, I suggested to my guild that we make an opportunity quilt as a fund-raising project. Since it was my idea, it became my baby. For our first ‘raffle’ quilt we decided to keep it simple. But, simple sounds much more simple than it is. I asked the guild members to …
Greg and I had a great time at Road to California this year…in fact, we went both Saturday AND Sunday! I finally purchased my new Innova long-arm quilter…3-weeks and it’s in my home! So many great quilts and incredible inspiration at the show. I wanted to say “congratulations” to Carl Hentsch (from Men Who Quilt …
As of bedtime last night the green HST quilt top is done. Sorry the pictures are so poor…but, the quilt top is done! UFO #3 is calling to me. I will take some pics of #3 and get them posted soon.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I seem to start twice as many projects as I finish. What is my motivation to finish these UFO’s? The obvious would be a restraining order from all quilt shops. But, that’s not reasonable. Therefore, I will restrict myself to “no more” fabric until at least 4 of my UFO’s are done. …
As part of being Vice President of the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild, I come up with a monthly quilt challenge. Some of the challenges have been demanding, while others have been very simple. Recently, we had the “Crayola Challenge”, and it was pretty straight forward…use the two colors you blindly choose and “screens” of those colors to create …
Trying to keep up with all the holiday demands I did find some time to finish my mini quilt. It was fun to practice some free motion quilting on a smaller project. I’m looking forward to the day when I’m working on a longarm to complete my quilting projects.
Pantone has released it’s color of the year for 2015, Marsala. I can’t help but love the clever names people come up with for colors that have been around for ages. I’ve used this color in my quilts for many years now and will continue to do so. I’m loving the deep tones during the holiday …
So, occasionally my lack of fabric organization gets to me. Picture this, Thursday afternoon and an ambitious thought rings in…”I should do some cleaning”. The first 30 minutes were filled with revelations like “why am I keeping this and I doubt I will ever get around to finishing this”. I’m so proud of myself for making …
This last weekend I had the opportunity to play with a longarm quilting machine for the very first time. I am sold….I loved it! My friend Georganna Hawley invited a few people over to her house to work on philanthropy quilts for the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild. I had many questions and my progress was …
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