Just had to show you this miniquilt I made for the Dallas Quilt Celebration Miniquilt Auction. It sold for $200. In all, we raised over $6000. for the Ronald McDonald Center here.

It uses your beautiful gold fabric. When I bought it all I could see was pumpkins! Love your fabric!

Fran

Fran was in my class this fall in Dallas and she sent me this great photo. I love it.

I have been on the road teaching. I was in Baton Rouge, LA teaching for the Gulf State Quilting Association. They have a small symposium that is in it's 26th year. There were a great group of teachers offering a variety of classes and we had a fabulous time. I even got to eat some Cajun food while I was there. I am very impressed with the resilience of these quilters they have faced so many natural disasters and still they keep quilting.
I am now in SugarLand TX. I will be presenting my lecture FUN Fusing this evening for the Quilt Guild of Greater Houston and tomorrow I will teach Free Motion Machine Quilting. If you are in the area stop by tonight.
I of course am missing home and George very much.

More wedding pictures

Here are some more wedding pictures. I misspelled some headings, ignore that. It takes too long to reload.
Enjoy.

QUILTWOW

I have an article appearing in a British on line magazine this month called QuiltWow. It is featuring my quilt Winter Forest. I hope you go and check it out.


QuiltWOW is a quarterly publication exclusively on the internet, featuring the very best British and International tutors, giving step by step details of varying textile techniques, ideas and their use in our quilt world. Be creative with machine and hand quilting. Learn new methods and ideas for machine and hand embellishment. Dabble in mixed media. And we won't forget those of you who enjoy piecing and appliqué. Keep in tune with the latest developments in products and technology. You will find all this here. We review books and products and keep you in touch with all that's new.

Multi color gradation dyeing

One of the ways I dye fabric is with multiple colors all on one piece of fabric. This gives the fabric a water color effect and makes my quilted art so much more interesting than flat one color fabrics. My March Special is a collection of 4 long quarter yards of three spring flower colors and one multi colored green for all your flower creations. If you can't have flowers yet, at least you can have them inside on your quilts.

Flooded with Color

One of the classes that I teach is called "Flooded with Color". It is a great class to learn the basics about hand dyeing fabric. We start out dyeing the color wheel in two different color ways and then move onto other fun ways to dye fabric. It is very important to know how the color wheel works and how colors are created, so that you can begin to experiment with creating your own colors.

Dyeing class in southern Illinois. We worked hard and got gorgeous fabrics and got a tan at the same time!!

The wedding pictures begin

So I'm starting to share pictures, I know this could get a little out of hand, but bare with me. Here are the first of what will probably be many installments.

Spring is coming

We are getting ready for the spring shows that are coming up. First IQA in Rosemont outside Chicago at the Donald Stevenson Convention center. April 16-19, Laura and I will have our booth again. I hope you will all plan on attending and visit the booth.

And then of course AQS in Paducah. I love Paducah, probably because of all the flowers in bloom and spring really being in the air. This year our booth will be on the main exhibit floor. We have been moved up!!! I really hope you will make the effort to come and see us.

But for right now you can view us on the Quilting Arts Blog, check it out.

I will post some wedding pictures soon. I have to transfer them from my other computer. The wedding was great, it all went well, the bride and groom were happy and funny and lively and we danced till we dropped.