My friend and fellow PAQAette has a great class on Craftsy. Pieced Hexies: Beyond English Paper Piecing. I meet Mickey Depre many many moons ago at our local quilt group PAQA. We have even taught together at a couple of venues. I thought you would enjoy meeting her…
Yesterday we celebrated the girls of May birthdays with our annual lunch. In the past it has always been a very delightful day and this celebration was no different. Four of us have BD’s in May, Laura Wasilowski, Anne Lullie, Emily Parson and myself. Really any excuse to come together and eat and drink is…
So I decided to go to randomnumbers.com to help me pick a comment number. I entered 1-100, because I had 100 comments, and 65 came up as the winner.Maggie Szanfranski was the 65th commenter. Congratulations Maggie. I know you will enjoy this book. Please email me privately at [email protected] and send me your address.Thanks to…
My good friend Laura Wasilowski has written the most charming and fanciful new book. It contains 11 fused projects for you to make and fanciful stitching for you to create on top of these small whimsical house quilts.This is my interview with Laura in our booth in Paducah, April 2011.If you leave a comment today,…
On Monday a new blog tour will begin. I participated in making a house for “the Artitst Village”. My house is the little one in the middle with the orange roof. On my day and prior I will be posting pictures of my house and telling about the process of making it. I hope you…
Be sure and stop by my blog on Tuesday May 3rd and leave a comment. I will be post an interview with Laura Wasilowski about her new book Fanciful Stitches. If you leave a comment on that day I will pick one lucky winner to receive a free copy of her book. You will love…
I want to share with you an artist who I think is doing some wonderful work. I went to my quilt group this last Wednesday, I belong to PAQA a group that meets in the Chicago land area. I don’t get there very much because of all the traveling that I do. SO, I really…
Today was our monthly PAQA meeting in Glen Ellyn IL. It was as usual a very fun and educational meeting. Usually in December it is packed with members who haven’t made it all year but manage to come for the annual holiday sale. This year however was very lightly attended and we didn’t even have…
I meet Becky Campbell in Columbus OH. Becky has a great product we all can use. She makes Tyvek quilt storage bags. Check them out on her website at Sewforever.
A few days ago a group of SAQAIL/WI members headed up to Milwaukee for a fun day of art. After visiting the MAM museum we headed over to the third ward district, which has many galleries and fun shops. We immediately went into the Katie Gingrass Gallery. And low and behold who should we find…
My friend Sharon Rotz has a new blog, check it out.