I have had a request from a couple people who couldn’t attend the seminar I offered last September to offer one early this year. I am trying to put together one for February, but I seem to be striking out. Three of the first four replies were from people who were going to be out […]
Archives for January 2017
A Gem of a Show
I just received notice my quilt “At the Ocean’s Edge” has been juried into the Gems of the Ocean art quilt show at Yachats, located on the Oregon coast. A big thanks to my partner, Mike. I forgot to submit my entry to the show prior to heading to Road to California. I realized my […]
Rolling on to Vista and Temecula
On our second full day of the trip, we traveled to the town of Vista and Fat Quarters Quilt Shop located in an old farm house. The shop is two floors and full of nooks and crannies chock full of fabric, notions, patterns, and samples. After two hours of perusing and shopping, we headed to […]
On the Road Again
I made it to San Diego in the midst of our latest snowstorm, but it took some doing. When I made the reservation with the cab company, I warned them how bad the roads were in the hills where I live. I called a cab, because we couldn’t get our vehicles safely out and down […]
On the Road to California–Barely
Yes, I am going to leave tomorrow for the Road to California Quilt Show in Ontario by way of a first stop in San Diego, but I was thinking I wasn’t going to make it. Portland was hit by an unexpectedly heavy snowstorm Tuesday afternoon thru Wednesday morning. We were supposed to get 1 – […]
Contest News
Happy to say I received notice that my quilt “Z is For Zinnia, C is For Cosmos” has been juried into AQS Quilt WEEK–Lancaster. The show is in March in Pennsylvania. When I lived in Montréal I had planned a trip to this part of the US, but it didn’t work out. Believe it or […]
Ready-to-Quilt Panels
It dawned on me after I wrote about quilting the Alphabet quilt panel I purchased from Keepsake Quilting that I should mention a company I discovered during Quilt Festival in Houston called Patternjam. I wasn’t familiar with it, although many others in the quilting community might be. Pattternjam had a display of some of their […]
