Month: February 2011


  • My Dallas trip…to Moda

    Time just flies for me!  But anyway…Last week I traveled to Dallas to visit the Moda complex, to meet the “girls” and design the next line (which would be number 3!).  First of all let me say I spent time with…Cheryl, Lissa, Debbie, and Kathy and what a great bunch of girls they have…I can’t…

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  • Moda…designer pillow blog hop

    Good Morning Everyone…I hope some of you are checking out my blog for the first time and hope you come back again!…Since I am the “newest” Moda designer, I have the least to work with…I currently only have 5 sku’s! The primitive muslins in all the same colors, shades of tan…So whats a girl to…

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  • for the love of wool weekend…

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Well our first “wool” weekend at “The Gathering is in the books…I know I had a great time…all my new girlfriends I think had ball too!  All of them were from Illinois, Minnesota and Delaware.  By the time they left they were well fed and their wallets were a little less full…I think most…

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  • Signs of Spring???

    No, not here yet, but Jules has a new wool applique quilt using big easy squares that is called Signs of Spring Tulip Quilt…this quilt makes you wish it was Spring right NOW!…It has been below zero here in WI for awhile with double digit wind chills…but it is supposed to make it into the…

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  • bag-ology…

    Last Saturday I attended the first class of Bag-ology!…Nancy taught the class and I can’t tell you how fun and how much I learned…I have really never sewed clothes so this was all good to know….every bag was finished except for a few buttons and bottom inserts.  I can’t wait to make the next months…the…

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  • Look what Moda did for me!!!

    It’s a full page ad!!!!    Click this link a customer sent me to read the ad…….Lisa on the back cover It was written by Nancy  Dey  my friend who works for me and who also took the picture.   This is so cool!  They never told me about it…everyone starting coming up to me…

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  • a christmas party….

    This post is a little back dated but my battery in my camera was dead and I finally tracked Jess down for her pictures…, but here’s our 2010  Christmas party for our shop employees….we do a gift to exchange…here are some of the photos…The girls received dovo scissors and a hand made sewing basket from…

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  • back to work…

    I have to apologize for this post…it will not do the day justice…I taught in the wonderful “castle” that was going to be a quilting retreat house…but it is having some major issues….well…I must have been tired because I did not take any photos of it!!!! Our class on Tuesday was also great!  All the…

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  • Wine country and more shops…

    We also visited Temecula Quilt Company…Cheryl the owner has a different concept in her shop…all I could think of was Pottery Barn…Everything was perfectly staged.  It was spacious and very  neat and tidy.  Cheryl loves little quilts, Civil War fabrics and does mostly her own patterns in her store…You can tell she loves her store…

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  • Nick left me…in CA.

    Nick left me in California…to teach another class….not for good…don’t get excited!  I had another great opportunity to teach at the Quilter’s Coop in the beautiful wine country of Temecula.  Joanne the owner of Quilter’s Coop wisked me away from Ontario and brought me to wonderful part of the state about an hour south of…

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