Showing Them The Ropes....

Hello Everyone,Wow, where does time go.... this week I have actually been home, but busy taking care of some home matters as well as teaching locally.  It is great to be home, but boy TONS of spring things to do.  Plus the weather has been pretty nice here and things are starting to finally feel like SPRING!!So I am getting caught up on quilty things.  These are some images from my class that I taught on Sunday.  This is the rope section of the Mariner's Compass Class that is going on in NY.  All the ladies in the class have...

Beautiful Stars

Hello Everyone,Yesterday was our 4th session of the Glacier Star Class in Vermont.  Let me tell you these ladies are fantastic and I truly enjoy teaching them.   All of the ladies have all different color palettes for the Glacier Star, which makes it even more interesting.I must say, I am really anxious to see these quilts completed.  Only two more sessions!But let's take a peek at the progress they are making.  I personally love progress photos, how about you?A bright tropical feel.Kaffe love!Eye popping blue!Proud Norma.Beautiful Moda.Absolutely gorgeous turquoise and teals!Linda with her Christmas version.  I am besides myself...

Class Time

Hello Everyone,Saturday was the second session of the Mariner's Compass Technique of the Month (TOM) class that I am teaching in the studio.  I love teaching this class as I have some AWESOME students!!Just to show you how awesome, Noreen had taken a class from me before the TOM.  The pattern we made was A Touch of Spring.  She finished it and brought it in to show me and I was blown away!!!It is simply gorgeous, lots of scrappy love!This just shows a little but...Here is a little more, and...Here is Noreen and the whole shebang!  See what I mean......

Yay!! Finally Back to Business!

Hello Everyone,Last month when we had Blizzard Nemo, it prevented me from teaching my second session of the Glacier Star in Vermont.  Yesterday, I was finally able to get back there to get the second session going!!I had a terrific time with these ladies as I always do... here are some glimpses of the happening yesterday.Yesterday's blog post was about variations and here are more.  All these ladies have fabulous variations on the NY Beauty blocks.  They all turned out lovely! They began their Lone Star units today.  Is this a pyramid scheme??They certainly feed me and everyone well.  Several of...

Variations....

Hello Everyone,I hope you all had a wonderful National Quilting Day yesterday!!  I know I did, I spent the day teaching the Glacier Star Technique of the month at my CVQW Studio.  We had a great time, lots was accomplished and many laughs.  Several of the ladies brought in some goodies like green cupcakes (pistachio), blueberry cornbread, and Irish soda bread.But what I loved the most was seeing the progress and the variations in every single quilt in the room.  Let's go on a short tour.I have become quite smitten with this color way.  Gloria's quilt is mostly purple and...

Snowflakes and Feathers

Hello Everyone,Yesterday was my third class teaching the Glacier Star Class to the Wiltwyck Quilter's Guild.  These ladies are making tremendous progress and I wanted to share this with you!The Lone Star unit, snowflake unit, feathered star, the geese units all together.Snowflakes for the center of the quilt.Another Snowflake Center. Mary quite happy with her Lone Star Unit and a completed feathered star.Lone Star unit with a Snowflake center.  My New York Beauty ladies with some of their completed units.All the different color combos together.We felt like playing and laid some of the completed units on my quilt top just for ha-has!...

Come Sail Away

Hello Everyone,Yesterday was class number 3 for the Mariner's Compass that I am teaching in New York.  Let me tell you these ladies are fantastic!!  They are making phenomenal progress.  Today's class we made the sails and the Compass Rose.Here are some images of what the ladies have completed thus far.Love this bright and bold version.... but you know me, I do bright and bold often!This is another version of bright and bold as well.  Love this one too! Okay, I am beginning to sound redundant... I love this one!And oooooo... how about this one!Beautiful!!Gorgeous!All the Compass Roses are complete for...

Mariner's Compass Class At CVQW Studio... Day 1

Hello Everyone,About one month ago we had Blizzard Nemo!  That was the weekend that this class was due to start, so we had no choice to push the start date back.  Finally yesterday we began!!Here we are working really hard.... I must say that they made great progress too!Michelle's swatch page.  It is going to be bold and beautiful.Noreen's swatch page, gorgeous brights.Michelle was cutting this absolutely WONDERFUL fabric!!  I LOVE this color, unfortunately none of it hopped into my bag to go home.We also had Wonder Woman in class!  Yes, Nancy brought this lunch box today.  Do you want...

Progress on the Glacier Star

Hello Everyone,On Saturday we also had the second Glacier Star Class.  I wanted to share some of the progress.This is Lisa's... the photo was taken after she went home and finished her homework.  So I guess I am working backwards.  She is doing a beautiful job!One side of the classroom with all the NY Beauties hanging on the design walls.A beautiful blue version from Sue.Anne's NY beauties.Some circling geese added and a few units from her Queen Extension are sitting there too!Lillian's geese and NY beauties are complete.  Looking good!Gloria has one circling geese done.  It looks great.Anne is a...

Second Class Progress Mariner's Compass

Hello Everyone,Yesterday, I taught the second session of the Mariner's Compass Technique of the Month at the Quilted Basket in Wappingers Falls, NY.  I wanted to share some progress photos with you.Completed compass flower from the first session.Compass flower.Compass flower.Today's session was the Feathered Star.  This is Unit K.  There are three units to this Feathered Star.  This is the longest unit and most time consuming.Blue Feathered Star.Andrea brought in her Total Eclipse from the class that I taught there in September.  I adore how this turned out!!  Great job, Andrea!MaryAnn brought in her Sunflower Illusions from the same class....

New York Beauties and Geese Circling the Lone Star

Hello Everyone,Yesterday was Session 2 in the Glacier Star Technique of the Month that I am teaching at the Wiltwyck Quilter's Guild in New York.These ladies ROCK!!  They completed all their New York Beauties from the first session and then we started Session 2...Everyone's stacks of NYB Blocks... aren't they gorgeous?Real New York Beauties, holding the New York Beauty blocks.Then it was onto circling geese units for Technique 2!!  Here are some of the results from today.Beautiful Asian flair.Purply batiks.A sophisticated palette.All from her stash turquoise geese... lovely!Bright and bold... just like I like em'!Everyone hard at work.  But we...

The Beginning of Glaciers

Hello Everyone,Yesterday was my very first "Official" class at my new studio in Winsted, CT!!  This class is the Glacier Star Technique of the Month.  I had a full house with lots of wonderful ladies participating.As per usual, I had an opportunity to walk through the class as the ladies were sewing and take some photos of their fabrics and their progress.Let's take a tour.This is the front of the classroom where I hung my sample to show the technique that we would be working on this month.Pretty pile of fabrics!  Beautiful colors!A swatch page.More pretties... non batiks!LOVE the brights!A...

Swatches....Choose Your Colors!

Hello Everyone,Yesterday I was in New York again, but this time teaching the Glacier Star Technique of the Month to my sister in law's quilt guild.One of the things that always strikes me is everyone's color selections.  I decided to take photos of everyone's color swatches.  I can't wait to see how these grow into the quilt!  Let's take a peek at how people are starting out...A Christmas palette.Cool Caribbean palette.A very sophisticated palette.A Sedona like palette.Bright and bold!!Desert palette.Jewel tone palette.More Jewels!Another desert palette.Drawing the "reference" marks on the first paper.A New York Beauty.Everyone working hard.Pat's Christmas New York...

Points and Flowers

Hello Everyone,Yesterday was the first session of the newest Technique of the Month... the Mariner's Compass.  I taught the first session at The Quilt Basket in Wappinger's Falls, NY and would like to share some of the happenings.I would also like to say that being the first session of a new pattern there was some learning to be had, by myself, as an instructor too.  This was partly due to the fact that the pattern was just release a couple of weeks ago and when I made the quilt, I made it from absolutely no written instructions.  That said the...

Halfway There

Hello Everyone,This weekend I was able to squeeze in a little time to devote to my Mariner's Compass quilt!  I was excited about sitting to work on it and got quite a bit accomplished.I thought I would show you some close ups of the various elements of the quilt.This is half of the center of the compass.  One of the things that I like best about Judy Niemeyer's patterns is that she designs them so that ALL your points will float.  In other words, the very tip of the spike does not go to the seam.  Therefore, there is no...

What Is On MY Design Wall??

Hello Everyone,Back in July you will remember that I was in Montana taking the Teacher Certification Class from Judy Niemeyer.  If not you can see some of the posts here.  I showed my progress on the new Technique of the Month (TOM) the Mariner's Compass. Since I have been back I have been working on my daughter's college quilt.  Now that it is off the design wall, I put the Mariner's Compass up on the wall.This is the center.  Remember, this is not yet pieced together.  I have to get all the pieces joined.This is all that would fit on the...

Day 4... What a Day!!

Hello Everyone,Today was quite a productive day!  Besides having a 3 hour meeting on Teacher Certification, we were still able to get tons of sewing completed.  When you see the sets of photos coming up you will see what I mean.Remember this is the NEW Technique of the Month that will not be available for classes until January 2013.  So if this is something that you would like to learn and have a guild or shop in your area that would like me to come and teach... send me an e-mail.Onto the progress photos.My Mariner's compass.  I am really liking...

Bagged and Ready to Roll

Hello Everyone,Many of you know that I am off to get certified to teach Judy Niemeyer's Paper Piecing techniques this week.  We will also be learning her new Technique of the Month (TOM).  That will only be able to be purchased through certified teachers or shops as well as taught by them only.That means come January, 2013 when the pattern is available, you can get it from ME!! And if you would like me to teach it to your guild or shop, just send me an e-mail.Anyway, I spent the better part of my week choosing my fabrics and cutting...

In Just 2.5 Weeks...

Hello Everyone,As many of you know, I will be heading out to Montana in just 2.5 weeks to become one of Judy Niemeyer's National Certified Teachers!  I am very excited about this and have many scheduled workshops and classes on my calendar already.  You can see where I will be by clicking here.  While I am out there, we will be learning her new Technique of the Month (TOM).  Isn't it just gorgeous?  The TOM can only be taught by Certified Teachers and shops.  The pattern is only available through them as well.  Yes, I WILL BE ONE... insert happy...