What did you do for National Quilting Day? I had several options. The Original Sewing and Quilting Expo was in Lakeland and I thought I might attend it until I figured out it would be a six-hour round trip. A bus of quilters from our area went down on Friday, but unfortunately, I had to work. The… Read More
Today I want to discuss the quilting element. Many of today’s modern quilters want to quilt their quilts themselves, therefore many are quilted on home sewing machines, rather than long-arm machines. As I discussed in a previous post I am trying to learn to free-motion quilt, however, the learning curve is huge and I want… Read More
They say that you learn the most about a topic when you teach it. In preparation for a presentation to the Country Road Quilters (Ocala, FL) in May, I have decided to do a series of posts on modern quilting. Like most quilters my age, my roots are in traditional quilting and I had been concerned that quilting… Read More
This is a continuation of my post from yesterday on Quilt Con. On Day Two (Friday) I was enrolled in a 1/2 day class with Bill Kerr from Modern Quilt Studio (formerly Fun Quilts). Bill and his wife Weeks Ringle were making modern quilts before it was trendy, starting their business in 1999. I love their… Read More
As promised, this is a post about my experiences and impressions of QuiltCon. I was totally unprepared for the event, since as many of you know it is tax season and I considered myself a lunatic for signing up for this conference when I am so busy at work. I was working 15 hours days… Read More
I returned Sunday from QuitCon! My next post will be all about QuiltCon, but for now, I want to share what I have been doing since I got home. As many of you know, one of the premises behind “Modern Quilts” is that they are pieced and quilted by the same maker. Don’t get me wrong, I love,… Read More
Today I celebrate the one year anniversary of my blog and what I year it has been! 2012 will mark the year that I started to share my handmade items with the world. I started a blog, entered a Moda Bake Shop contest, started a Pinterest Board, shared 3 tutorials, posted to Flickr, started a… Read More
Hi Folks! I can’t believe it has been almost two months since I did a blog post. It all started when I went to Anaheim, California for a conference related to my day job. I got so behind with not only work at the office, but also work in my studio. Something had to give… Read More
So sorry to be so infrequent with my posts, it has been a busy couple of weeks. First, I had to get all my record keeping caught up so we could file our 2011 tax return by October 15. Like the cobbler’s children that had no shoes, we get everyone else’s tax returns done before… Read More
I was so excited when I opened my daily email from The Modern Quilt Guild Friday morning and saw that one of my blocks was selected from the Quilt Con Block Challenge for the quilt to be raffled at the Modern Quilt Guild’s conference (Quilt Con) in February, 2013 in Austin, Texas. You can only… Read More