Quilters, The Musical is starting this Friday at the Maples Repertory Theater in Macon, Missouri! This coming Saturday, Jenny Doan, of Missouri Star Quilt Company, will be there giving two trunk shows. I’ll be there the weekend after, on October 7th, to teach a workshop and present a trunk show. Even tho the workshop is […]
6 Comments. Continue Reading...It’s business as usual around here — never a dull moment! Last night, it stormed all night long with horrible lightning and loud thunder. I didn’t get much sleep — I’m a storm chicken! It’s been storming off and on for the last few weeks. When it’s not storming, we have sweltering temps in the […]
10 Comments. Continue Reading...There’s been a lot going on around here, since I’ve gotten back on my feet. Mostly standing at the longarm, but I manage to fill in the gaps with lots of other things, and as always, interruptions abound! You know there’s been some quilting goin’ on around here when your Cowboy walks in the house […]
7 Comments. Continue Reading...It’s coming to Maples Repertory Theater this fall! Quilters, The Musical. And along with the musical, the theater is hosting all sorts of other quilting events throughout the musical’s 17-day run, including a quilt show at their event center. Check this out! The first weekend of the musical, Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Company […]
3 Comments. Continue Reading...I’ve been chipping away at lots of projects, and a few of them finally got to the completed stage this week. I feel like I’ve been sewing in slow motion, so to have a few things done and off my plate feels pretty good! I finished this flower pillow that I started a couple years […]
7 Comments. Continue Reading...It’s been a busy, busy year so far! I’ve had deadlines, and I’ve been working on a variety of different things — that helps keep me from getting bored, and it keeps everything moving along. Sometimes things have to happen even faster, so then I let things get back in a mess, because deadlines are […]
10 Comments. Continue Reading...I’ve been back at the longarm so steady that I’ve been making slower progress on all my own projects yet again, but I thought I’d pop in today to tell you about a few things I’ve been up to. This week, I managed to squeeze out enough time to turn a couple of my most popular […]
7 Comments. Continue Reading...I’ve been working on quite a motley mix of stuff over the last few weeks. Most of my efforts have been geared toward either meeting a deadline, or cleaning up and organizing. Getting my new longarm frame delivered and having Ivy all set up in her new digs, spawned a flurry of other cleaning and […]
10 Comments. Continue Reading...After ten days away, Ivy is home from her spa treatment. (Wouldn’t YOU love to spend ten days at a spa? I know I would!) While she was gone, I was a nervous wreck, fretting over all the quilts I have yet to get done before Christmas. But she came home yesterday. The guys from […]
20 Comments. Continue Reading...Not that a raging inferno is ever something you expect to happen . . . But sadly, it sometimes does. One of the guilds I belong to, the Hands of Friendship Quilt Guild in Kirksville, Missouri, was recently asked to put together an exhibit of quilts for the Kirksville Arts Center — quilts with a […]
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