First Class... Sunflower Illusions...

Hello Everyone,

Since last Wednesday, I was in Vermont at the Vermont Quilt Festival!! I have tons to show you, but first I wanted to share with you the first of four days of classes that I taught while there.  The first class that I taught was Sunflower Illusions.  The class was wonderful!  The students phenomenal, let's take a peek...

Playing Catch Up

Hello Everyone, Since Wednesday I have been in Vermont teaching at Vermont Quilt Festival.  I have been having a great time and have met some wonderful people!  But I have some photos to show you from Sunday.... so I am playing catch up. As many of you know, Monday was my birthday, but I invited my quilting buddies to my studio on Sunday for a little sew in!  We had pizza, cookies and pie!  And I gave each of my friends some quilty giveaways!!  It was so much fun. But what surprised me the most was that, my friends, surprised...

The Last Day

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Yesterday was the last day of teaching at a Quiltworx retreat.  I had a great time with these ladies and they were extremely productive!  Although everyone was making something different it was so nice to watch them grow and evolve each day.  One of our favorite things to do beside eat and sew is to hang quilts over the balcony on a nice day and take photos.  I have a few to share as well as the progress on the walls.

Retreat Progress

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What a great day we had yesterday!!!  These ladies at the retreat are working really hard on all kinds of projects.  They are having tons of fun too.  Let me show what they are making.

In Montana!!

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Yesterday, I arrived in Montana to teach with Judy Niemeyer at her retreat center.  But I must say, I left 80 degree and Sunny weather for  44 degrees and TONS of rain!  You got to know I love her and teaching right?  Because if you know me, I really am not a fan of the cold weather... So right now I am in paper piecing heaven!  Yup, that is right, there is such a thing!!  Let's take a peek at what happened yesterday.

My Students Have Wedgies!!

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Yup, that is right they all have "wedgies".  We wrapped up the final class for the Technique of The Month, Mariner's Compass on Saturday and each student walked out with at least one "wedgie" or one almost together.  What I mean by "wedgie" is they have one of eight slices of a pie done.  You know when you slice into a pie, you get a wedge slice, right? That is what my students have, let's take a look...

Fireworks?

This past weekend I was lucky enough to spend my time in New Jersey with some fantastic ladies!!!  I taught the 4th of July class at Pennington Quilt Works.  Let me tell you something, these ladies had awesome color combinations, and they totally had MAD paper piecing skills!!

Let's take a peek...

Cactus in Rhode Island??

As promised, I am blogging again today!! Yay!!!  From Long Island to Rhode Island, I traveled.  I had a fantastic time in RI too!! I presented a trunk show on Tuesday evening and then on Wednesday taught the Cactus Flower Table Runner Workshop.  I can't say enough about this group of ladies.  Some familiar faces too.  Loads of fun!!

Let's take a peek...

Long Island Workshop

It seems like ages since I have blogged!  Ack!! I hate that.  I have been traveling and finally I am sitting down writing this blog post.  I wanted to share some of my travels with you.  One of the things that I love when I travel is the people that I meet and how fabulous each and everyone of them are, truly!! Plus, I have tons of fun too.

So last week I spent the week going back and forth to Long Island to the Huntington Quilters Guild.  First was the lecture, which I shared on the previous blog post.  Then I went back for the Cactus Flower Table Runner workshop.  Here are some of the photos from the workshop.

Mariner's Compass

Many of you have been following my Mariner's Compass class that I am teaching in Massachusetts.  This is a favorite class for me to teach because there are so many choices in colors for the quilt that can be chosen and every student's quilts look different.  But not to mention spectacular.  So let's take a peek...

Seasonal Table Runner

Compass Rose

Okay... I am so behind on blog posts.  But I have an excuse...really!  I was away on vacation.  I am going to post something that should have been posted a week ago and then we will move on from there.  As you know I taught at MQX New England over a week ago.  The Compass Rose was the last class that I taught and I wanted to show you some of the goings on....

Sunflowers

The second class that I taught at MQX was Sunflower Illusions.  This is such a fun class to teach and I love to see all the different fabrics that my students use.  The construction of the blocks is fairly simple.  There are two units that are joined together with a curved seam. The students all did great!! Let's take a peek...

Cappuccino....

I know I am a little late on this post, but last week I had the pleasure of teaching several classes at MQX New England and I wanted to share some images from each class in separate blog posts.   This blog post focuses on Cappuccino ~ A Party for Four.  It is a table runner and placemat set.  Let's take a look at the class...

What A Weekend!

This past weekend, I taught a retreat at Olde City Quilts in NJ.  This group was fantastic!  Boy did they get a lot accomplished.  It was a feathered star retreat and they could make either the wall hanging or queen size.  It was split pretty even.  And boy did they choose wonderful fabrics!

Feathered Star

Done!!

Just a quick post to show you that I actually finished the Mini Star Table Runner top!!! Yup... put those setting triangles in... Yay!!

Final Feathered Star Session

On Sunday, I taught the final session of the Feathered Star class in New York!  These ladies were just AWESOME!  We had so much fun in this class and they learned TONS too.  I want to show you a few pics from the final class.

A Fun Saturday

One of the things that continues to always amaze me is the different choices in colors from all the different students.  In this blog post you can really see some of the differences.

My Newest Project

Yup... I am onto my next project.  I haven't yet quilted my last one, but here I go with one more on the quilting pile.  This new project is a small table runner.  Actually, I am almost done too!