Summer Solstice Wrap Up

Hello Everyone,

Yesterday, I finished teaching the second session of Summer Solstice at In Stitches! in Goodyear, AZ.  These ladies in the class made great progress for a two day class!  Kudos to all of them.

I bet you would like to see some of the results, right?  Wait no longer...

My Student's Really Do Like Me... I Think??

Hello Everyone,

Yesterday was another wonderful day in Arizona!  Sorry to all my friends and family who are now expecting a Nor'Easter today.  But I must say that I am glad I am here right now and not home.... 

Any who... I am teaching the Summer Solstice Class at In Stitches! Quilt Shop in Goodyear.  What a great bunch of ladies!

Diamonds

Hello Everyone,On Saturday, I taught the 2nd and last session of the Summer Solstice class at Sturbridge Quilting and Sewing.  Let me just say what an awesome group of ladies.Let's take a peek at their progress.Lone star diamonds being laid out with the NYB.Gayanne finished a diamond.Linda finished two...Beautiful!!Ruth has two diamonds done...Margrit's quadrant is all sew together.  This is the exciting part. A look at how the upper half of the quilt will appear.So I am curious... How many of you have ever paper pieced?  If you haven't, why not?  If you have, did you like it?If you would like...

A Fantastic Class and A Recurrent Theme

Hello Everyone,On Saturday I taught a really fun group of ladies in Sturbridge, MA at Sturbridge Quilting and Sewing. These ladies were fun, fun, fun!!The class was the first session of two.  They are working on Summer Solstice.  So they worked on piecing their New York Beauty blocks and the Lone Star sections.Here is a very pretty Lime and Black NYB  and here comes the recurrent theme...Lime and Black again.Not so lime, but black spikes.  These ladies love their black spikes and you can tell they know how to have a good time when sewing.You can see my Summer Solstice...

Bound and Done

Hello Everyone,I know I showed you my Summer Solstice in my blog post here, but I hadn't quite finished it... now it is done!  I have sewed the binding down, put a sleeve on it and a label and sent it off to be displayed here where I will be teaching this class.I used the same fabric for the binding as I did the inner border.  I really like this effect!  Actually I am really smitten with this entire quilt.  Done with Kaffe Fassett fabrics and 3 batiks.I must tell you that paper piecing is the ONLY way to go...

Summer Solstice Quilting Close Ups

Hello Everyone,Many of you may remember my Summer Solstice quilt... A.K.A "I Am Not Afraid of Color".  I finally was able to get it quilted!! I have attached the binding by machine and just need to turn it to the back and hand sew it down.  Then it will officially be complete!! But I couldn't wait to share the quilting with you.  Let's take a little tour...Here is the entire quilt and you can see lots of feathers and tons of quilting.  I used variegated thread from Superior... their Rainbows and Lava.  I switched them to match the fabrics.  I love...

YAY!! I Am Quilting My Own Quilt!

Hello Everyone,Remember a few blog posts ago, I said I wanted to start quilting my own quilts in 2013?  Well, I started yesterday.  After 12 years of customer quilts... I am now focusing on my own.  Believe me, I have a TON of unfinished quilt tops that need quilting.  A good guess would be around 30 tops or so.The first top to grace the long arm is my Summer Solstice quilt.  This is the one that I am affectionately referring to as "I Am NOT Afraid of color".  It is a Judy Niemeyer pattern and all paper pieced.  I will...

The Countdown Begins!

Hello Everyone,We are busy as bees putting the finishing touches on the "Things With Wings Quilt Show"!  I am very excited about it and hope that you can all attend if you are in the area.You can read all the details about it here and here.An update though... we now have reached capacity for the quilts that will be on display.  So, if you were thinking of entering a quilt in the show, I am so sorry there is no longer any space for them.But you will see quilts like this one...My "I Am Not Afraid of Color" a.k.a. Summer...

Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2011

Hello Everyone,I just finished my first day at Quilt Market and I do have some great photos!  But you will have to wait until the next post to see them as I wanted to do my Blogger's Quilt Festival post... Sorry!  But thank you to Amy for hosting this great event again.  You can see more quilts from other people here.I hope you are not disappointed though because I chose a quilt that I just recently had shown.  For those of you who are new to my blog hopefully it will be a treat!  This is the quilt that I...