“Popcorn” was a blue ribbon winner and well deserved. You can feel the energy of a state or county fair in this composition. I absolutely love this quilt! This is another stand-out quilt. While I don’t know what the cat is thinking about, I know what he thinks about it! Great group quilt with […]
Archives for September 2016
Fabulous Quilts at NW Quilting Expo
Last weekend I judged 178 quilts with Gerrie Thompson for the NW Quilting Expo which took place this past Thursday through Saturday in Portland, Oregon. The show began sixteen years ago, and I have judged it many times starting with the second year. The show as gotten better and better–noticeably, with entries now coming from […]
Quilt With Your Walking Foot a la Jacquie Gering
Yesterday I attended a daylong class with Jacquie who is known for her modern quilts. While she can free-motion quilt, she has seriously explored the possibilities of quilting with the walking foot, which she calls forward motion quilting. At the beginning of class and before we actually started quilting some of her designs, she had […]
A Big Whoo-hoo!
I was in the midst of Jacquie Gering’s workshop today when I checked my e-mail at lunchtime only to learn my piece “Z is for Zinnia, C is for Cosmos” received an Honorable Mention at IQA-Houston. How wonderful. I had a lot of high-fives from the other students, which I really appreciated. On November 1st, […]
Quilting, Quilting, and More Quilting
This week is all about quilting. This past weekend I taught the NACQJ Two-Day Judging Seminar to a group of seven students. Marilyn Bevan was one of them. By way of introduction, she said she was 90 years old, had just bought a new sewing machine and planned to learn how to use every feature […]
Oregon State Fair
A week ago Tuesday, I evaluated 107 quilts at the state fair along with my fellow certified judge, Elizabeth Spannring. A nice surprise in my pay envelope were two tickets to the fair. Mike and I drove down to Salem, Oregon’s state capital. Unfortunately, the drive was grueling with an hour drive taking one hour […]