The Uber driver picked me up at the hotel Thursday morning to take me to the Ontario Airport to head back to Texas. This delightful driver, Grace, I learned has an art degree and ran an art department for a while. At some moment she needed work and ended up working for the concession stands… Continue reading Road to California Redux
Category: quilt shows
This is a bit surreal
Friends. It is a bit surreal this moment. Seeing these quilts hanging at Road to California as a display, with the descriptions and poster is simply surreal. And so I share some of the images from the exhibit (I'm not sure I got all of the quilts) without further comment, other than to say I'm… Continue reading This is a bit surreal
I find it profoundly odd
that I can go for weeks without writing some witty and pithy thing here. Can you hang on for a moment, I need to go make coffee, change the laundry over and wait for a friend to come to use my Handi Quilter Moxie. Be back in a few. Copies are available at Road! My… Continue reading I find it profoundly odd
A Shout Out to Alex Anderson
Oh goodness this is a throwback isn't it. This is from 2008 from a Ricky Tims Quilt Super Seminar just north of Albany New York. I was super new to the wonder-filled world of professional quilting and Alex is beginning what I've enjoyed as a delightful adventure hosting The Quilt Show, and the whole development… Continue reading A Shout Out to Alex Anderson
Current Reading
Lean in Quilterly Friends we're gonna chat books and life and quilting. Are y'all ready for this? A couple of weeks ago I mentioned reading "Your Blue Flame Drop the Guilt and do what Makes you Come Alive" by Jen Fulwiler. She's hosting Get Unstuck with Jen the week of November 15th, friends I'm diving… Continue reading Current Reading
Thank You
Quilts Inc for coordinating, hosting, and running a great show this week. No doubt ever crossed my mind that this would be not only challenging but different, and it was and each of y'all handled things with grace and kindness. Bob Ruggiero you deserve a special thank you for so many things but most especially… Continue reading Thank You
The Weight of Color
*Note: I started this post a couple of days ago, realized I needed to go to bed because getting some sleep is important. This morning I taught The Weight of Color, a new class for International Quilt Festival: Begin exploring the weight of color in free-motion quilting. Using color pens and pencils, fill in the… Continue reading The Weight of Color
Live From Houston!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CVdT-fLr4kR/ Life is good. I am short. This is awesome sauce. Right before this moment I was kind of goofy dancing in that middle aisle between my students. This will most likely be the only picture not because I have no desire to take pictures of my students and their work but because my students… Continue reading Live From Houston!
From British Storytelling, to Jen Fulwiler and Tabitha Brown
Okay I saw this post going so differently then my sister sent this: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVUrjtgMWoP/ this is what came up when I searched for iron We all need that reminder. While reading on the front porch this morning from Your Blue Flame I read this: I know a youth minister who wants to inspire teens to… Continue reading From British Storytelling, to Jen Fulwiler and Tabitha Brown
Quilted Features: Quilt Basket & Cutie Patterns
Today begins a new, long term series Quilted Features, this will cover all the interesting things I would have covered at Quilt Market. I'm slowly reaching out to companies who were going to vend at Quilt Market for an opportunity to show off their wares, new fabric lines, notions, patterns, or the quilt/sewing related things… Continue reading Quilted Features: Quilt Basket & Cutie Patterns