Category: Teaching
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Take the Labeling Pledge
Quilt Alliance is on a mission to get all quilters to label their quilts. According to a survey that they cite, only 58% of quilters regularly label their quilts. They currently have a pledge form you can fill out where you can pledge to label your own quilts. This has been an issue near and…
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Review of 2015
For the last few years, I’ve posted brief summaries of the year as it ended. I haven’t been posting much lately, and with the loss of my sweet hubby, I was hesitant to do a review this year, but I thought I would try a mini review. But, forever in my mind, 2015 will always…
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Friendship Quilters Guild
Last Saturday was moving day for DD#1 and her husband. Smart girl that she is, she graciously agreed to be my assistant while I taught my “Making Faces” fused appliqué portrait workshop to the Friendship Quilters Guild of Coldwater, Ohio. Did I mention she was smart? She came with me so sweet hubby could help…
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A week or so of Hazel
This past week or so I’ve had the great fun of spending lots of time with Hazel in one form or another. It started with quilting the two little portraits of her at three months and ten months old. Earlier this week we went to Young’s Dairy Farm so she could see the goats. She…
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Tucson Quilters Guild
It’s been a long couple weeks. First, I focused completely on taming George so I could quilt my secret, 84″ x 84″ quilt in just one week. Mission accomplished! I finished in time to then re-focus on the next task, which was preparing for a trip to Tucson so I could speak and teach. This…
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Sew Happy Carnation Quilters
We had a special Valentine’s Day weekend this year. We went up to Louisville, Ohio and stayed in a nice little bed and breakfast. I’m especially fond of historic architecture, and this beautiful house was built in 1886. All of the original woodwork was pressed with elaborate designs. I had never heard of this technique…
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African American Quilt and Doll Guild
Last week, sweet hubby and I drove up to Cleveland. Wow! It was really cold up there! But it was worth the trip because we got to spend time with some ladies we met a few years ago. Eighteen ladies from the African American Quilt and Doll Guild braved the snow and cold weather to…
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Review of 2014
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I can’t believe it is already the end of 2014! This has been a busy, eventful year for our family. Being “Mimi” means a lot of quilt making gets put on hold temporarily so I can focus completely on little Hazel, but I expect in the coming year things should start balancing out more. Here…
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Oxford Piecemakers
Last Saturday, I had the wonderful opportunity to teach my Making Faces workshop to a quilt guild just an hour from my house. They were very gracious and let me bring DD#2 as my assistant and, of course, little Hazel had to come help as well. She was in a great mood, and she smiled…
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Our Texas adventure: the icing on the cake
And now for the final leg of our Texas adventure! Thursday, October 23, we packed all of my teaching supplies in our little quilt car, L’l Blue, and pointed her towards home. We were eager to return. After all, being gone eleven days is an eternity when you have a five month old grand-baby waiting…