It’s always a wonderful evening when you get to look at and talk about quilts, right? I spent yesterday evening at the Macon County Historical Society Museum in Macon, Missouri, presenting a program about The Life of Hazel Ilene. I showed all the quilts from my book “A Simple Life: Quilts Inspired by the ’50s”, and […]
15 Comments. Continue Reading...I’m presenting a program about The Life of Hazel Ilene at the Macon County Historical Society Museum in Macon, Missouri, on the evening of August 1st, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. I hope you’ll join me at the museum for this presentation where I’ll be showing all the quilts from the book about The Life […]
5 Comments. Continue Reading...Not that you’ve noticed, but I’ve been a bit absent online lately. I’m extremely busy with some very important projects and deadlines (and very behind on some of them), so I’ve had my nose to the grindstone. Did you catch that word “extremely”? It’s a bit of an understatement. Since Monday morning, I have stood […]
11 Comments. Continue Reading...International Quilt Market is later this week in Salt Lake City. It’s the twice-yearly trade show for the quilting industry, where industry professionals and quilt shop owners can go to promote their new stuff or see all the new stuff they want for their shops or businesses. We’ll get to see all the newest fabric […]
7 Comments. Continue Reading...My book is finally on its way! “A Simple Life: Quilts Inspired by the ’50s” is available now! Click HERE to read more, see a few more sneak peeks, and get information on how to order a signed copy. In other news, I went to the AQS Show in Paducah, KY, last week with my sister. […]
5 Comments. Continue Reading...And I’m throwing in a little News From the Ranch for good measure. I’ve been working hard on lots of fun stuff lately. Some of it I can’t show you just yet, but some of it I can, so I will! Last week I showed you a bunch of pieces I cut using a new little wedge […]
7 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...This week went by at lightning speed — here is it Friday already, and I can’t even tell you where my week went! I know I spent a lot of it doing math, followed by suffering a migraine. I wonder if those two are related somehow? I try to spend a little time every day […]
4 Comments. Continue Reading...With over 100 UnFinished Objects on my list, I figure I’d better come up with a good method for dealing with them, right? My Procrastination Challenges last year didn’t help me out too much. I did move a few projects further along, but nothing from that list actually got finished. That needs to change! Of […]
15 Comments. Continue Reading...I thought I’d take a little time today to show you some of the projects I’ve been working on. A lot of the time, I can’t show what I’m working on because it belongs to someone else, but sometimes I get to squeeze in a couple things for myself. I’ve been doing the Moda Sampler […]
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