After finishing piecing a row of quilt blocks I checked the stitch count on the BERNINA 560 and it's just over 1.5 million stitches since the last service. That was just over five years ago. That's not a lot of stitches when 3 million per year is average expected. I clearly have not been doing… Continue reading Welcome to 2026
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Color
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
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Happy Wednesday
Yesterday was a snow day here in Central Texas, and the day was full. Tonight we record the next episode of Quilter Rule the World and after changing laundry over in a bit I'm going to go get one of my free-motion quilting feet so I can do some free-motion this afternoon. Spot for a… Continue reading Happy Wednesday
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West Houston Quilters Guild
Happy Friday friends. https://www.instagram.com/p/C9isrPCxIPD/ This was the only photo I managed to get. Wednesday I drove in to visit with the West Houston Quilters Guild. I missed the rain by this much | |, the clouds driving in and out were a sight to behold. Mammatus clouds, so fun. Humidity and curly hair have a… Continue reading West Houston Quilters Guild
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The Book Report, A Summer Sale, & me
In about a week a new issue of The Book Report will release on YouTube with Lee Monroe of May Chappell Designs. It's about COLOR and I ask her the very important question, "what's the difference between the CMYK and standard RBG color wheels. I loved her answer! Summer Sale on E-books! C&T Publishing is… Continue reading The Book Report, A Summer Sale, & me
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When the Silence Takes Hold
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
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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
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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
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Wow it’s been a hot minute since I was here!
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!
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Coming Right Up!
Linda Pearl the creative mind behind One Quilting Circle messaged me the other day to see if we could chat, responding to a post on facebook letting my students from Vermont Quilt Festival know that I will open the class on Zoom. Click on One Quilting Circle to see Linda's post. On my Shop Page… Continue reading Coming Right Up!
