I’ve gone to several quilt shows this year, and readers and customers have also been kind enough to send photos, and some of my fellow guild members have shown me things they’ve done . . . And there have been a lot of quilts made from my patterns floating around in the wild! I’m so […]
5 Comments. Continue Reading...I may have mentioned before that I knit scarves for St. Anthony’s in San Francisco. St. Anthony’s provides support and services to the impoverished, particularly in the approximately 50-square-block area known as The Tenderloin. They serve meals in their dining room, they have a medical clinic and a recovery program, they offer a free clothing […]
3 Comments. Continue Reading...Back last fall I quilted a Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt for my friend, Imogene. Imogene lives in the town I grew up in, and was a friend of my parents. You can read an article I wrote about Imogene and her husband, Chet, over on The Life of Hazel Ilene’s blog HERE. Imogene is a quilter, and […]
14 Comments. Continue Reading...It seems like eons ago that I pieced a couple of quilt tops for Amy Ellis for her new book. It’s excruciating to wait for all the work you’ve done to finally show up in print. But it’s all worth it in the end when you get to hold the fruits of your labor in […]
4 Comments. Continue Reading...My friend, Edie McGinnis, has recently had her 18th (I think) quilting book published! This one is called Finders Keepers Quilts, and it’s chock full of reproductions based on a fantastic find of vintage quilts in an abandoned farmhouse in Iowa. You can read more about the quilts, and the story, and see more pictures, […]
6 Comments. Continue Reading...You need to get your hands on this magazine! The Fall, 2015, issue of Quilts and More magazine. My friend, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, has a quilt in it, and it’s wonderful . . . A very graphic quilt using Lynn Krawczyk’s fabric, Inked, along with some very striking pieces for the setting from Red Rooster. […]
6 Comments. Continue Reading...Look what the mail lady delivered to my door the other day — my own personal copy of Pat Sloan’s new book! It’s called Teach Me to Applique, and it has some darling and very happy projects in it. I quilted a few of the projects in the book, and when Pat sent me the […]
2 Comments. Continue Reading...I recently had the honor of quilting a very special quilt. I met Barb Owen last November, when she attended a retreat that I was also attending. She was there working feverishly on a Sunbonnet Babies quilt for her granddaughter, Kristi. Seems there’s a tradition in Barb’s family of all the girls receiving Sunbonnet Babies […]
9 Comments. Continue Reading...Last year, I found out that one of my readers, Sue, lives in Warrensburg, MO, and that she sometimes likes to shop at Sew Sweet Quilt Shop, which is my favorite place to shop. We talked back and forth by email, and decided to pick a day to meet up at the quilt shop for […]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Last Saturday, my sister and I drove down to the Ozarks to attend the Holiday Open House at Reneé Nanneman’s studio. Reneé is a fabric designer for Andover Fabrics, and has a LOT of patterns published as well. The Open House was wonderful. I could have hung out there all day! She had the entryway […]
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