Giving Quilters Permission Since 2009
Y'all know Marcia Derse is one of my favorite fabric desingers. While attending Virtual Quilt Market a few weeks ago I popped into the Windham Booth to see what was new. I am still delighted to learn that Stephanie Prescott is now with Windham! I'm looking forward to Fall Market and hopefully Stephanie will have… Continue reading More from Virtual Quilt Market
Virtual Quilt Market is over, as of this moment Quilts, Inc is planning for Fall Market and Fall Festival to be in person events. I'm scheduled to teach at Fall Festival and I think at Fall Market and will be there for both. I live within easy driving distance so I can bring everything I… Continue reading Spring Quilt Market Stuff that made me say Wow
Yesterday as I participated in a Virtual Panel (and will again on Monday) and talked with a few industry related people that the Quilting Worlds, and it's environs from our sewing rooms and studios, to quilt guilds, small businesses and quilt shops are all about relationships, growing them, and nurturing them. Normally at this time… Continue reading Spring Quilt Market Virtual Style Take 2
Virtual Quilt Market (link to sign up) is this week, the intreped folks from Quilts, Inc have been working hard to get this event together coordinating all the vendors, presenters, and Schoolhouses together so that we can, once again, see all the new fabric lines, notions, machines, tools, patterns and in a limited way the… Continue reading Spring Quilt Market: Virtual Style
Upcoming Poppy Quilt N Sew ClassesApril 12: Demo Day - I'll be at the shop in the classroom to demo free-motion machine quilting and a bit of ruler work. There are plans afoot to show some of this live. Classes: all are 10:30 to 2:30April 24 & May 1 - Beginner Free-Motion Quilting April 27… Continue reading Upcoming, Instagram Share and Reminders
We all have troubles in life some that we speak of, some that we don't. Our life experiences help form and shape us unto the people we are today. Some memories are wildly hard, some are delightful, some are neutral, some stay with us, some don't. At some point in my growing up I took… Continue reading When I was growing up
It's been a week and it's Wednesday, and had to check that by hovering the cursor over the time on the laptop. Last week I dropped something off with a friend here locally as I left her house on my next errand a small rock kicked up and hit the windshield causing a star right… Continue reading Okay, so here’s what Happened and Then
Wanna hear a weird fact? I don't like licorice, but I do like anisette. I love hand quilting, and can teach it, but I am not interested in hand quilting a quilt I stopped drinking soda/pop for a really long time. Then started drinking again at my dad's wake as part of a toast. Go… Continue reading Answering the Licorice Question and other weird facts
It's time for Second Coffee and a chat. I like second coffee. It almost seems decadent in a way. I've had the wake me up coffee, now I'm having coffee just because it's there. The beans are already ground, and the water is getting hot in my sunshine yellow teapot, because one uses the French… Continue reading Second Coffee
The clatter of the metal tray on the floor indicated the loss of bacon. The bacon prepared for BLT sandwiches fell on the floor. I just stood there and stared at the bacon. On the floor. Bacon grease splattered a good three feet away from the pan, bacon, in that delightfully crisp state, crumbled. Bacon.… Continue reading Wherein the Bacon Falls on the Floor
