Quilts and Cherry Blossoms

What a weekend this has  been!
It started in Williamsburg with the Colonial Piecemakers’ Quilt Guild. I had such a good time with these quilters! On Friday, we spent all day playing with Tsukineko Inks. We used the Fantastix applicators to learn how to control the ink and then we mixed the inks with aloe gel [...]

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Quilters, a Quilt Show, and the Economy

I’m blogging here in Hampton, Virginia, at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival. This is a Mancuso show, which means the show is organized and well-run, and everyone knows what to expect. Well, everyone except the vendors.
The quilters expected beautiful quilts, and we weren’t disappointed. But the vendors had to have doubts when they set up their [...]

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Moonlighting Quilts in Pittsburgh

Mother and Daughter Working Together

This week, I drove to Pittsburgh to meet the ladies (and gentlemen!) of the Quilt Company East Quilt Guild. What a great group! They are friendly, cheerful, and talented. On Monday night, I gave one of my favorite lectures, Fabric Acquisition 101. We talked about what fabrics to buy, how much [...]

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Speaking to the Tavern Quilt Guild

Today, I had the pleasure of speaking to the Tavern Quilt Guild in Heathsville, Virginia. What a wonderful group of ladies!  They were friendly, welcoming, and full of questions.
I presented a new lecture: It’s Okay to Write on Your Quilts. We explored different ways to add writing to your quilts and I showed them lots [...]

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On the Road Again…

Okay, pop quiz: what’s even better than going out of town to visit quilt shops? Answer: leaving town with a quilt buddy to celebrate a milestone birthday with another quilt buddy AND visiting quilt shops.
This weekend, my friend Kathy and I drove up to Connecticut to celebrate a birthday. Our friend Heidi hit a milestone [...]

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In the Company of Quilters

Did I mention that I love my job?!  I really do!  Last night, I visited with the PieceMaker’s Quilt Guild in Middletown, PA, and talked with them about the care and feeding of their fabric stashes.  Of course, they’re seasoned fabric collectors, and so we treated it as a graduate course!  While I was so [...]

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Why Houston is Better Than Disney World

I love Disney World.  It’s not just for kids, and I admit that I love going there.  But do you know where I really love to go?  Houston! 
Disney has Imagineers, fireworks, and rides that give you a wonderful feeling inside.  Houston…well, Houston has all that and quilts! 
Instead of Imagineers, Houston has Karey Bresenhan and her [...]

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Trees: A Class Picture

Have I mentioned that I love to teach?  Truly, I do.
Here’s a class picture from the workshop I taught this weekend for the Richmond Quilt Guild in Richmond, Virginia.  These ladies bravely wielded their rotary cutters without the aid of rulers to “draw” trees and then created their very own forests.  I am so proud [...]

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