Month: January 2013


  • APQ’s 20th Anniversary…

    Our marketing director at Moda, Lissa Alexander has just announced that her quilt made the cover of this 20th Anniversary Issue…all I can say is this honor couldn’t have gone to a better person! I am sure this is going to be an awesome issue…put this on your list to get!!!  I will make sure…

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  • Fat Quarter Quilt Shop-Designer Block of the Month!

    Click this link for more details:    Fat Quarter Quilt ShopMystery Block of the Month    Just want to give everyone a heads up…I have designed a block for this Mystery Quilt from Fat Quarters… You may want to head on over and sign up…just in case they run out of kits!!!!    My post…

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  • Inspiring others…

    Now please don’t take this post the wrong way…I would never do a “shout out” about myself but when one reads a post about herself, it really justifies that YES! This is what I am meant to do… Here is a post from Becky, who took one of my classes in Utah this last weekend:…

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  • Back in California…

    A view from the plane…leaving Utah on the way to Ontario, CA Today I spent the afternoon with a nice bunch of ladies who stitch at stars & scraps in corona ca…they all brought food and it was all fabulous…I so appreciate the fact that I got to stitch with them instead of being in…

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  • Day 2 workshop and dinner/lecture trunk show

    Another day passes so quickly when we are having so much fun! The ladies in Utah are a joy to teach! After our workshop we went to Maddox for a wonderful dinner and I believe it was a great time for all 75 attendees…the door prizes were fabulous and all the company was even better……

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  • Warm winter blessing workshop…today

    I will let the photos speak for this lovely group of ladies… And look….I even got some prizes…homemade honey from Susie’s hives….homemade soaps with cloves, mint and citrus along with those paper pieced ornaments from Janet… What did I do to deserve these treasures?!!!

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  • Tuesday…a total play day….

    Today (yesterday)there were no quilt shops on my agenda….I was to be picked up by Dru and just hang out…we shopped in Temecula and then visited my favorite winery from my last visit…now I don’t know much about wine…but I am starting to kind of really like it…remember I am from WI where most everyone…

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  • Some free time before our nite time lecture…

    Hey Ladies… I want to share some pictures of the 5 quilt shops I visited on Monday before my evening lecture with the flying geese quilt guild… I know I don’t have pics of all of them….but here are the five shops we visited on Monday…Fat Quarters in Vista…along with Grand Country Quilters…then to the…

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  • Flying geese quilt guild, workshop today

    Here we are in beautiful Costa Mesa, California…my students all were exceptional today…wonderful gals…great day spent learning how to work with wool…tomorrow I will visit a few CA quilt shops and then a lecture at night for the guild.

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  • Airport stitching…

    On my way to CA…my favorite part is stitching in the airport…I have lots of things prepped to stitch away..

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