Yesterday was the Northwest Quilters Guild annual show at the Expo. I started the day with my talk about my design and construction process and the World Challenges I have participated in. A few minutes after I began my stepmother, Theola, and stepsister, Kelly, showed up. I was so surprised as neither of them are […]
Northwest Quilters’ October Quilt Guild Meeting
Monday night we had an interesting mix of speakers. The new owner of Montavilla Sewing Center in Lake Oswego came to our meeting to talk about their latest shop, which formerly was The Pine Needle. Generally, Montavilla’s stores sell machines and offer classes associated with their machines. This store is adding fabric to their line […]
Watermarks–important?
Lesson four in Photoshop Elements with the Pixeladies is how to overlay watermarks or other text on your images. As I mentioned, this is my second time taking the course. It’s exciting to see how much more I’m getting out of it. So while I knew how to do watermarks and text, I haven’t been […]
Zigzag Pizzazz Class Coming Right Up!
On Monday, September 10th I’m giving a presentation at the Northwest Quilters Guild on machine embroidery techniques I call Zigzag Pizzazz. When I was studying design and embroidery through London City and Guilds, we spent one six-month session on machine embroidery. Among the numerous samples required, I did one each of satin stitch bars, satin […]
Valentine Pizzazz!
Yes, I know Christmas just got over and New Year’s Day isn’t until tomorrow, but Carol Sayles, one of the students in the Zigzag Pizzazz class I taught a few weeks ago for Westside Quilters of Hillsboro, OR, sent me a photo of her wall hanging. (The photo is is slightly distorted from the camera […]
It’s a Good Thing–or Rather They Are
Before I launch into another blog post about the International Quilt Festival, other good things have been happening. I received a yes to my submission from the Road to California Quilt Show for my quilt “Z is for Zinnia, C is for Cosmos,” the same quilt that won an Honorable Mention in Houston. Show dates […]
Zigzag Pizzazz
I’ve been working on a book featuring the zigzag stitch. I presented the work I had done so far in June to the Tualatin Valley Quilters Guild in Sherwood, Oregon. Their program chair, LoisMarie liked it so much, she asked me to present to another guild she belongs to, the Westside Quilters of Hillsboro, Oregon. […]
Zigzag Pizzazz and Beautiful Corded Shoes
It’s been a few weeks since I posted. Not because I haven’t been busy. I have. Then to make matters more challenging when I tried to post two nights ago I found my site was “temporarily out of order.” Seems I needed to renew my domain name but for some reason never received notice. So […]
