Last week I spent some time with a lovely guild in Arcadia, which is about an hour from Redlands, called the Wandering Foot Quilt Guild. I packed up a huge roll of wall quilts plus another big basket of larger quilts and smaller 3-d works: and gave a lecture/trunk show Wednesday evening where I trace… Continue Reading
24 years ago, on a rainy Saturday afternoon, I married my awesome hubby: We’ve lived in 4 different states since then, are raising 2 awesome boys, supporting each other in good times and bad, and encouraging each other to find time for our passion! We are both lucky to have jobs that actually use one… Continue Reading
24 years ago, on a rainy Saturday afternoon, I married my awesome hubby: We’ve lived in 4 different states since then, are raising 2 awesome boys, supporting each other in good times and bad, and encouraging each other to find time for our passion! We are both lucky to have jobs that actually use one… Continue Reading
I’m headed to Acadia, CA this afternoon to give a presentation to the Wandering Foot Quilt Guild this evening entitled “My Journey from Traditional to Art Quilter”. While I’m there, I’ll have some hand dyed fabric and DVDs for sale, so I decided to make these 2 baskets to hold them: I used some fantastic multicolor… Continue Reading
I finished the last session of my latest Free Motion Machine Sketching class at the Redlands Sewing Center. All nine of these ladies have taken Free Motion Machine Quilting with me previously, so they were very quick to pick up this new technique, and were sketching splendidly by the third class! Continue Reading
The weather here in Redlands has been unseasonably cool, and by that I mean that it hasn’t been getting up to the 90’s every day. I knew that this wasn’t going to last (and indeed, it started heating up today and Monday they’re saying it’ll be up to 110), so I’ve been dyeing up a… Continue Reading
I’m not gonna lie, I got a little freaked out with everything I have to do. It seems like I spend more of my time at the computer than I do either dyeing or sewing, and I worked myself into a bit of a state where I couldn’t get much of anything done! Gah! Anyway, I… Continue Reading
I’ve been working on a large improv pillow, I wanted to have something to show the ladies in my Free Motion Machine Sketching class how to sketch on a quilt. So this improv cabin with lots of negative space was the perfect space for some funky allium flowers: The pillow form I have is a… Continue Reading