In a few short weeks I will participate on a panel with Joen Wolfrom and Christine Barnes on C&T's Creative Spark learning platform. This morning while getting ready to do some other work I happened upon an article titled: Why is the World Losing Color: the Rise of Chromophobia. This is good stuff quilters. Good.… Continue reading Color
Along with the saga of the mixers this will be a reflection on 2023. Below I'll include a link for the Quilters Color Mixer that includes a discount code for those who sign up through my link or use the code. And I'll link over to the most recent The Book Report. A few weeks… Continue reading The Day the Mixer Died
Hey you awesome quilter you! Here's the final book report of the 2024 Season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVZ5MfFN514 These are a couple of cool tools! And pairing them up is so so fun. I love what C&T did here with both card decks and how we can use them in our quilting and related arts. As I'm thinking about… Continue reading The Book Report: Quilterly Card Decks and my 2024 Word of the Year
https://www.instagram.com/p/CejazjxOc9X/?img_index=1 Before I dig in on the rest of the post I would like to wish Tracy Mooney well as she heads into some new venture. Friday was her last day with Golden Peak Media, I really enjoyed publishing a couple of quilts in her magazines. I'm not sure which was the favorite, the camping… Continue reading Phew! I did it
I’m excited to share with you that I’m teaching with the John C Campbell Folk School in the online forum, known as Lessonface. From the website: Join us for a beginning machine quilting class to get the most out of your domestic home machine. Quilt making is a combination of skills coming together to create and make something… Continue reading Coming Soon to a Lessonface near you
This morning in my fb memories an image of me working on a quilt in memory of Yvonne Porcella popped up and reminded me of struggle. At the the time of the making there was a lot going on behind the scenes for me. We all make happy faces at one another on the socials;… Continue reading In the Struggle
Twilight in the Bronx holds within it something beautiful. In February I'm teaching Stars Over Brasstown at the John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. It is an honor and a gift. Along with creating our own Stars, there are creative exercises and a beautiful campus. I think I'll take the Picnic Quilt and… Continue reading Stars Over Brasstown
Good golly ya think you have all the stories ready to tell and then whoooosh it is four weeks later and the stories are still here, just waiting for the opportunity to spill the beans. In just a few days the course catalog for the John C Campbell Folk School goes live. I am teaching… Continue reading Wow it’s been a hot minute since I was here!
and I do know when I'll be back again. I leave on Tuesday 6/13 and return on 6/28. I keep asking my Sweetie if he wants me to stay home and get a rather emphatic no, it's kind of hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEATF7VNTk Watch my Instagram for images of things like bagels and lobster and quilt shops… Continue reading I’m Leavin’ on a jet plane
Piecing Palooza is coming! Use this link to save $20 The Summer Reading Edition of The Book Report is out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4WbGsPgow4 I'm lining up a couple of interviews for July more on those next week. I'd like to introduce you to my new logo. Michelle Freedman had Once Upon a Print Shop design her logo… Continue reading Saturday Reminders
