After adding this image to the post, and tapped play on Pandora one of my favorite songs started playing. As the words spill from my brain to fingers breaking the silence of this last season the desire fills my being to write more, quilt again. Winter is by far not my favorite season, the sky… Continue reading When the Silence Takes Hold
Category: quilting
The Day the Mixer Died
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
The Book Report: Quilterly Card Decks and my 2024 Word of the Year
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
Congratulations Tracy Mooney!
Happy Saturday Friends! If you follow Tracy here then you know last Friday (10/13/2023) she finished working with Golden Peak Media as Editor of Quilt Maker and Quick & Easy Quilts, also working on Quilty and McCalls Quilting for periods of time. I loved contributing to these pages. As much as I love Orange you… Continue reading Congratulations Tracy Mooney!
Coming Soon to a Lessonface near you
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
Help a Quilter, or 100+ Out
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxOD--tu9ZT/ And then after Tracy alerted me to this I found one of my patterns that I submitted to Quiltmaker by the seller referenced in Tracy's post. I designed a quilt.Hours of work designing and getting the color to work for the quilt top.Selected fabric for said quilt.Cut said fabric up, pieced and quilted it… Continue reading Help a Quilter, or 100+ Out
In the Struggle
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
Saturday Reminders
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
On Playing Guitar and Learning
or Today I played Frerer Jacques Shhh don't tell anyone I'm working on the draft for an article that will come out later this fall and I'm avoiding writing because I'm thinking and that takes a lot of avoidance tasks. Like reorganizing the pantry. There is something more behind that than simply reorganizing the pantry.… Continue reading On Playing Guitar and Learning
Quilt! Quilt! Organize
Last week a neighbor who is moving to the Northeast and is posting a few things on the neighborhood facebook page. So I picked up a 3 x 3 storage cube, complete with fabric cubes to store stuff in. The wire rack, while it is still a mess looks a lot tidier now that the… Continue reading Quilt! Quilt! Organize