Month: September 2012

  • Giveaway: winners of QA magazine

    Giveaway: winners of QA magazine

    I used the random number generator to pick two winners of the October/November 2012 Quilting Arts Magazines. Congratulations to #3, Judy Bowers, and #13, Christine Lussier! Email me your addresses and I’ll put the magazines in the mail!

  • Giveaway: October/November 2012 Quilting Arts Magazine

    Giveaway: October/November 2012 Quilting Arts Magazine

    Today the new Quilting Arts Magazine arrived in my mailbox. Inside is my article on how to photograph your own quilts in your own home with ordinary equipment. I believe photography is an important part of quiltmaking. It is helpful during the quiltmaking process so you can audition various options, for instance. But I always…

  • Back to a little sewing

    Back to a little sewing

    It was nice to get back to a little sewing today, even if it was wedding related and not quilting. I’ve been working on DD#1’s wedding dress off and on over the past couple months. She wanted to wear my wedding dress from 1981. She has a much smaller waist than I did thirty-one years…

  • Celebrating Amalya

    Celebrating Amalya

    I want to share one last post about our precious Amalya Nathaniel. I’ve been waiting to show pictures of my little grandson because I wanted to let my daughter be the first to share pictures on her Facebook page, and I also wanted her to help me pick out a couple to share with you.…

  • Remembering Amalya

    Remembering Amalya

    Yesterday we spent as much time as possible creating memories of our time with little Amalya. Several of us brought our Bibles with us, and we put his footprint at key verses in our Bibles. I put one footprint at Psalm 139, right over verses 13 through 15, because we believe God doesn’t make mistakes.…

  • Loving Amalya

    Loving Amalya

    Our sweet little Amalya arrived this morning, September 10, via cesarean section at 7:51 AM. He was 4 lbs 9 oz and measured 16-1/8″ long. We were thrilled that Mommy and Daddy had some special time with him, and then the three sets of grandparents and three great-grandmothers all had a chance to snuggle him.…

  • Art Quilt Portfolio: People & Portraits

    Art Quilt Portfolio: People & Portraits

    If you head on over to Amazon, you can get a sneak preview of the cover of Martha Sielman’s the newest book, Art Quilt Portfolio: People & Portraits. It is now available for pre-order, even though it won’t be published until April 2013. I was thrilled when Martha notified me several months ago that some…

  • Remembering my father

    Remembering my father

    My sweet father, Ken Van Hulla, passed away peacefully today, around 8 PM California time. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for the last several years. In June he fell and broke his hip, and he never fully recovered. He was 82. I will always remember my father as a man full of integrity,…