MQX East Awards Ceremony and Sneak Peek!

We drove down to Providence to attend the Awards Ceremony yesterday afternoon, and were able to take a ‘Sneak Peek’ at the show, special exhibits, and vendors.   What a great show – if you can get to Providence by Saturday April 14,  go to MQX East! Five Bar Blues won 3rd place in the Large [...]

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Feather Plumes …. finishing the February FMQ sampler

I couldn’t stop myself from quilting once I began free motion quilting the feather plumes from last month’s challenge.  The fabric is solid silver, silk/cotton sateen.  Using different colors of silk thread (all #100, both YLI and Superior depending on the color)  made it look like the fabric was hand dyed (although this photograph may [...]

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2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge

Happy New Year! To encourage myself to re-start blogging this year, and to challenge myself to practice new free motion quilting techniques, I ‘took the pledge’ to participate in the 2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge. Check out this challenge at SewCalGal’s blog — especially the list of talented machine quilters (all home sewing machine quilters!) who [...]

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More of my favorite things … from the AQS Show in Paducah

I spent 40 very full hours in Paducah on Wednesday and Thursday, April 27 & 28.  I wish I could have stayed longer — there were so many places to visit, quilts to see, and wonderful quilters to meet.  I’m looking forward to returning for a more leisurely trip this fall. I didn’t have very [...]

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A few quick pics from my short trip to Paducah and the AQS Quilt Show

Although I have never been to the quilt show in Paducah before, I know this was a very unusual year for the show.  Due to high water in the Ohio River, Paducah installed the floodgates the weekend before the show.  The Floodwall Murals painted on the concrete walls that usually overlook the Ohio River were [...]

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OMG!! I’m going to the quilt show in Paducah!

My quilt, Five Bar Blues, won the Brother Wall Machine Workmanship Award at the 2011 AQS Quilt Contest in Paducah.  I am still in shock…   So I’m flying down to Paducah to see the quilts and the rest of the amazing show.  I understand they have worked a miracle and moved quilts, vendors, and [...]

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A Visit to the Farmington Valley Quilter’s Guild

The Farmington Valley Quilter’s Guild invited me to visit their guild, so I drove down to the lovely town of Simsbury, Connecticut last week.  I found quilting designs everywhere!  This is part of the front door of the Simsbury 1820 House where I stayed. The guild meets in Eno Memorial Hall in Simsbury, which has [...]

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Weekend Quilting Escape to New Hampshire

The first weekend in March I spent a wonderful weekend away quilting in Henniker, New Hampshire.   A few of my friends (well, there are 5 of us) discovered the Henniker House Bed & Breakfast last year. The B&B has five guest rooms as well as a beautiful open great room overlooking the Contookook River.  Innkeeper [...]

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Amish Obsession – A Quilters Gathering 2010

OK, you haven’t heard from me in a long time.  And, despite the title of this post, I do know that it is now 2011.  I drafted this blog entry last November but life caught me up before I had a chance to post it.  I wanted to share it anyway…. so here it is: [...]

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Surfacing at A Quilters Gathering in Nashua, NH

One of my favorite quilt shows is A Quilters Gathering, held in early November every year in Nashua, NH.  I entered one quilt in the show, and my friend Karen entered a small quilt that Karen and I collaborated on – she made the top and I quilted it.  The show was this past week [...]

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