Month: June 2012
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June Free-Motion Quilting Challenge
June’s special guest teacher for the 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge through SewCalGal was Cindy Needham. She does such beautiful work. This month she encouraged us to do a sampler of sorts. She wanted us to experiment with “The Basic Three” – a repetitive line, a circle, and an S-curve. She advised us to spend some…
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Thinning it all out
I wiggled my way into my studio this week. I desperately needed to put away everything after taking two Nancy Crow workshops and teaching six classes at the NQA show. Everything had just been piled in there helter skelter, some by me and some by sweet hubby. I started by clearing the walkways, and then…
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2012 NQA – Playful Portrait class
I think the Playful Portraits workshop is the one that had the most laughter overall. It was so much fun just letting go and choosing the wildest prints you could find. When someone hesitated, others joined in to encourage them to take the risk! Invariably, they were glad they made choices they might not have…
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2012 NQA – Fused Portrait class
I was happy to be able to leisurely enjoy the show on Preview Night because once the workshops began, this is as close as I got to the show. These photos were taken from the balcony right outside my classroom. As much as I liked seeing all the quilts in the show, I had a…
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2012 NQA – Drawn and Painted Portraits class
The first class I taught at the 2012 NQA (National Quilting Association) show was Drawn and Painted portraits. This class is usually a challenge to teach. When I asked at the beginning of class, out of 22 students, I think only one person said they had done a portrait before. Added to that challenge, I…
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Happy father’s day and thank you
This is one of my favorite pictures of my sweet hubby with our girls when they were little. It was one of their favorite games. Thank you, sweet husband, for being such a good father. Thank you for purposefully being a different father than yours was. Thank you for loving Jesus and for being soft…
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2012 NQA Show
Sweet hubby and I just returned from the 43rd Annual NQA Quilt Show. (NQA stands for National Quilting Association.) I was scheduled to teach six workshops over a three day period! I was pretty nervous about that, and it took quite a bit of time to get everything prepared and ready to go. I’ve actually…
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Product Review: Grifiti Nootle
I’m excited about the new piece of equipment that I got just today. It started on Sunday when, out of the blue, an idea popped into my mind. For six months I’ve been hooking my iPad up to my digital projector so I could show PowerPoint presentations to quilt guilds (using Keynote). On Sunday I…
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Life party for Amalya
I’ve mentioned before about how our daughter and her husband are expecting their first child, but the baby has a condition that will not allow for him to survive outside the womb. I know some people don’t understand, but our daughter and son-in-law (and all of us as a family) have chosen to fully embrace…
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Nancy Crow workshop: lines and curves, days 3, 4 and 5
We spent the better part of three days on our final, big project. We each made sixteen 20″ square quarter circles, which will eventually come together as an 80″ by 80″ quilt. Basically, we were supposed to take everything we learned and we could do anything we wanted with all that. She wanted us to…