The photo is from my instagram account while shoveling the snow yesterday. Yesterday was a snow day as my boss made the decision that the roads were too bad to travel. I spent the day writing for my book and shoveling on and off. The muscles in my upper body let me know, with no… Continue reading Finding Inspiration on an Icky Day
Category: beauty
Thank you!
Waking up early has it's benefits. I'm sitting at my dining room table sipping coffee, looking out my kitchen window and watching a beautiful sunrise creep up over the trees and telephone wires. The winter colors are much more subtle than summer but beautiful and inspiring none the less. Color ranging from a light to… Continue reading Thank you!
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A deeper sense of Gratitude
Here I am at Quilt Market, the trade show for the industry. This is where all of the new and trendy stuff just is. I've been posting pics of facebook for both Generation Q Magazine and myself. To say that I am having fun would be an understatement. To say that I'm working hard would… Continue reading A deeper sense of Gratitude
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What will your quilt (verse) be – Pondering Alert
With the extensive blogroll on the side here you can see that I check in on and read a lot of blogs. There are more that I subscribe to including Seth Godin and Bernadette Jiwa of The Story of Telling and a few more. Bernadette wrote What Will Your Verse Be about the death of… Continue reading What will your quilt (verse) be – Pondering Alert
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it’s Friday!
Enjoy the weekend i'll be quilting and working and quilting some more after work what about you? there's a few more days before Just a few more days to enter the drawing for some of Melanie's Meadowlark fabric! Happy Quilting! Teri
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Workin’ it, workin’ it
The last few weeks have been creatively busy with behind the scenes stuff that is really amazing, some for me, some for Generation Q Magazine and some for BERNINA University. It's really a lot of fun. In the next 5 days: Two days at the shop where I work There are quilts that will mug… Continue reading Workin’ it, workin’ it
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Spring!!!
Spring and Autumn are my times of the year. I love the color. I love the fragrance. I love feeling the earth come alive with glorious beauty once again the tulips start blooming and daffodils hyacinths and dogwoods the seedum changes color the mocking birds build a nest in our arbor and serenade us And… Continue reading Spring!!!
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The back – I love this quilt so much!
When quilting goes well the back and the front both look good. That's our goal as quilters. I love the back of Tilde. I love the subtle play of color of the gray on the yellow/orange. Did you know that my original intention was to use a bright teal blue on the back? I wanted… Continue reading The back – I love this quilt so much!
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Giving Permission
Aside from letting you know when I'm teaching I refrain from talking about things that happen at work. In part because most of the time it's helping quilters choose fabric, helping customers purchase machines, find the right fabric for a pattern their making or teaching free-motion machine quilting. Though I do get very excited when… Continue reading Giving Permission
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Play date part 2
I must admit that whenever I get my hot little hands on Melanie's printed cloth I go all giddy. Last July Melly gave me some of her printed cloth and I made a quilt that has yet to be quilted. There is something different in Melanie's work now. The colors are richer, somehow more joyful… Continue reading Play date part 2
