Month: July 2012
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Quilting Quarterly
I got my Quilting Quarterly (Volume 41 Number 4) in the mail this week. It is the 2012 Show Special Edition which shows all the winning quilts from the 2012 NQA show. Wow! What beautiful quilts! If you weren’t able to attend the show and see them in person, this is the next best thing.…
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Wedding invitations
I know I’ve frequently mentioned the upcoming wedding for DD#1. We’ve been busy planning, which is sort of scary when you realize that my two daughters and I are all over-achievers and love details. Add to that the fact that we all have a do-it-yourself mindset, it does get us into trouble from time to…
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Champaign Quilter’s Guild
Sweet hubby and I had a wonderful time this morning with the Champaign Quilter’s Guild in Urbana, Ohio. Thank you, everyone, for the warm welcome! I love doing trunk shows. I encourage people to ask questions when they think of them, even if I’m in the middle of my presentation. I love to create a…
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Patchwork Professional
I like keeping secrets! In January, I was contacted by Dorothee Crane who is the chief editor of the German Art Quilt magazine called Patchwork Professional. She had seen “Windblown” and she wanted to know if I would like to have my quilts featured in her magazine. Naturally, I said, “Sure!” A few months later,…
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Quilt Queen will be traveling!
I just got notice today that “Quilt Queen” will be traveling! She has been accepted into the 2012 International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas. What fun! Now she can survey the far-reaches of her kingdom. I also sent an entry form for “Surrender,” but that one was not accepted. I really am not upset at…
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July Free-Motion Quilting Challenge
This month’s Free-Motion Quilting Challenge was issued by Angela Waters. I was not familiar with her work. She looks fairly young, and she quilts professionally for others. She taught a technique she calls “Tiles.” She had us divide up the space bit by bit and then we quilted within each space. She used just one…
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Sneak peak of Amalya
On Saturday, we had the great priviledge of seeing a sneak peak of our grandson. DD#2 and her hubby were gifted with a 3D/4D ultrasound, donated by Sustaining Grace. Their mission is to “To help provide non-medical 3D and 4D ultrasounds for the parents of babies that have received a fatal diagnosis. If these parents…
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A quilter lives here
My son-in-law was bored today so he came over to our house looking for something to do. No problem! Sweet hubby was already more than half way through installing a new sink in our kitchen, and SIL jumped in to help. My previous sink was an inexpensive fiberglass one that had become very badly scratched,…
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Disassembling FMIL’s dress
I started disassembling DD#1’s future mother-in-law’s (FMIL, for short) dress today. She had such a beautiful dress, and I am so thrilled she wanted us to include portions of it. I want to make the very best use of it with as little waste as possible, so I started by removing the lace at the…
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Next project: wedding dress
Now that I’ve finished my Nancy Crow classes and the six workshops I taught at the NQA show, I have time to breathe. I think the next major project on my horizon is altering a wedding dress. As I’ve mentioned before, DD#1 is getting married. She wants a vintage feel for the wedding. We’ll be…