FINALLY after four months of malfunctioning my website is back functioning correctly. It has been a real pain in the patootee for both me and my web mistress. The first customer who orders anything on the website over $20 today will receive FREE - 1 yard of rainbow strip fabric as a hallelujah to rejoice…
I feel so lucky to have such a great art center, The Fine Line in St Charles, IL so close to me here in the suburbs of Chicago. I will be taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity to sign up for a discharge class with Bob Adams in June of this year. Harvest Moon Quit National 2005…
I noticed in Sunday’s ads that WonderUnder #805 is on sale this week at JoAnn Fabrics. It is 50% off. Most of my quilts are fused. I am a fuser. So I use a lot of this stuff. If you are a fuser or like to use fusible now is a good time to go…
Look at these yummy hand dyed cheesecloth Think of all the wonderful possibilities. I’ll have lots more at the booth in Paducah! See you there
I hope you are all planning to come to the quilt show in Paducah KY. The AQS show from April 21-25 will be a wonderful show and an exciting adventure as always. Laura and I will have our booth there #1224. We are in the main building with the large quilts in the back on…
I am in love with barns. I have stated that several times here on the blog. This is the second in a series of barn imagery I have made. It is in an exhibit that premiered at the IQF show in Chicago this past weekend called “Living in the Mid-West” Vanishing Icon II
Setting up for the show opening today at the Donald E Stevenson Convention Center in Rosemont IL I am in booth 1224, come on in and see me.
My good friend from Norway, Kjersti, made this beautiful quilt titled “Urnes”, using my blackened rainbow fabric. She received a prize for Best handwork at her local quilt show. “The motif is from one of the oldest stave-churches in Norway, Urnes. The text is written in medieval runes: “I, K, Bjoergs and Sigurds-daughter from the Tonsberg-line…
Dear Friends Big news here! In honor of International Quilting Weekend, March 20-22, 2015, The Quilt Show (www.thequiltshow.com), the web TV show hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, will open all of its shows from the first nine series- shows 100-1513 -for the entire weekend. This means that, for three special days, everyone will…
i am teaching today and tomorrow in Oshgosh WI at Fox Valley Technical college. This is a fun and great venue. I LOVE my classroom set up. I have a table top camera And a computer with Internet AND a projector All set up and ready for me to use!!! Fabulous! Also a full…
Our little granddaughter turns one year old ALREADY! How did the time fly so fast? Her other grandma is also a quilter and made Evie her first quilt, so I didn’t feel the need to hurry, besides which they live in Florida. How many quilts can you use there? I came across the center panel of…
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