Category: Portraits
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Road to California 2013
Good news! Good news! I got good news! As you may know, the Road to California Quilter’s Conference and Showcase (road2ca.com) opens today. Sadly, after our fabulous time in the Bay Area last week, we had to go home so we are no longer in California, and I won’t get to go to the show,…
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Time to Pre-Order Art Quilt Portfolio: People & Portraits
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Art Quilt Portfolio: People and Portraits is now available for pre-order through the SAQA Bookstore (http://www.saqa.com/store-detail.php?ID=782). I’m pretty eager to see it because “Windblown” is on the cover! Plus, I am a featured artist. What does that mean? I don’t exactly know, but it sounds pretty wonderful so I’m eager to find out! I was…
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Organizing thread and bobbins
I have a project that must be done this week, so naturally I’m procrastinating a bit first. Actually, maybe this is just the warm-up phase. You know, kind of sliding into the real project? Anyway, the procrastination project last night was to organize my thread and bobbins. Really. *Shakes head and rolls eyes* Since bobbins…
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Word for 2013
A lot of quilters on the QuiltArt list like to pick a word to use as a goal or motivation for the coming year. I think I have trouble thinking long-term, but I’ve tried similar ideas. In 2011, I chose the idea of being “brave” when it comes to my artwork. It comes from a…
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Review of 2012
Here’s my review of 2012 (DD#2’s idea), but I’m going to start a few months earlier because I especially like those events. 🙂 So, in addition to speaking and teaching at fifteen quilt guilds in less than two years, writing twelve articles for Quilting Arts during that same time, and making three trips to California…
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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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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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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,…