I’ve had a couple of exciting days! Saturday was graduation at the University of Redlands. Here’s the view from the stage: And here’s a cool shot from the University’s website: It’s quite a happy day for lots of students and their proud parents! Liam had a busy day on Sunday competing in the Redlands Bowl Young… Continue Reading
I’m happy to show off the class sample for my new Advanced Free Motion Quilting Class that I was working on last week. What’s funny is that I didn’t take long at all to select the colors, because I really had to just make this up and get it done!!! That being said, I think these… Continue Reading
I’m going to start teaching an advancd free motion class at the Redlands Sewing Center, so I’ve been working on a sampler quilt to use in the class, where I use white thread against bright colors, allowing the patterns to POP! I quickly pulled some fun bright colors and came up with a layout. I… Continue Reading
I finished up another 3 session Free Motion Machine Quilting class at the Redlands Sewing Center Tuesday night – we had such a blast! All of the students had great attitudes and accomplished a ton! We were having so much fun I almost totally forgot to take pictures! I did snap a few early in… Continue Reading
Happy Earth Day! The folks at Quilting Daily asked me to write up a post on how dyeing with Procion MX fiber reactive dyes can effect the earth and how we can minimize those effects. I am continuously inspired by the flora and fauna that surround me, so I am always trying to impact the earth… Continue Reading
Ah, Easter…every brass player works on Easter! Hubby was off early in the morning to a church in Palm Desert he usually plays the Easter services for, so he missed our Easter morning festivities. Although the boys are 16 and 12, (soon to be 17 & 13 YIKES!), they still search for Easter baskets by… Continue Reading
We’ve been having lovely weather lately, with roses all over the place: Logan’s been off at Pali Science camp in the San Berdardino mountains near Lake Arrowhead. His teacher’s been posting pix of the kids each night: here’s Logan on the ropes course: Getting ready to ride the zip line… and riding the zip line…wheeeeeeeeee!… Continue Reading
Ooh, I had to share this! The folks at Quilting Arts really support the use of prayer flags in our community, and they’ve just released an ebook that features all several viewpoints on the use of prayer flags, and lots of ideas on how to make them. Look at these incredible wee prayer flags!… Continue Reading