My quilt “Z is For Zinnia, C is For Cosmos” is featured on The Quilt Show.com today. For the past few days, The Quilt Show has been showing the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place quilts in First Entry in Paducah–Small Wall Quilts. Third place was Friday, second place was Saturday, and my first place quilt […]
Archives for May 2017
100 Days Project
Today, May 22nd was the beginning of the 100 Days Project, a creativity project that runs for 100 consecutive days. If you are not familiar with it, the idea is that you will: (1) Repeat a simple creative task every day for 100 days. (2) Record each day’s effort. Check out the Project website, if […]
Judging in the Rogue Valley
On May 8th and 9th, I had the pleasure of judging for the Rogue Valley Piecemakers in Grants Pass, Oregon for the first time. Members submitted over 200 quilts–a healthy number–in 19 categories. Best of show was created by Yvonne Cook, a master quilter whose work I have met before. In April 2016, I awarded […]
It Takes a Great Teacher to Make a Great Class
The Northwest Quilters’ Guild hosted teacher Melinda Bula at this past weekend’s quilt show. She taught two classes: Summer Rose, an appliqué class and Renegade Threadplay, a quilting class. I’ve taken two classes in the past from Melinda on the one and only quilting cruise I’ve ever done, which was through the Panama Canal. Melinda […]
Northwest Quilters Show Their Spirit
Yes, once again, the Northwest Quilters’ Guild had Eastside Distilling among their vendors at the quilt show this weekend held at the Expo. I had to buy the Marionberry Whiskey for my partner Mike, because it was such a big hit last year. I also bought the cherry-flavored whiskey, which has just a hint of […]
A Birthday Hit!
My grand-nephew Conor’s second birthday was Saturday. I had quilted a bed-size alphabet panel for his baby brother as a Christmas present, and Conor has been wanting one since. I’ve mentioned Patternjam in the past after seeing their vendor booth at the International Quilt Festival in Houston last year. I bought a twin-size bed panel […]
