Eclipse is in the mail

Kaleidoscope Creation, stitch plate & quilt
    This afternoon I visited Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero’s website Kaleidoscope Collections and noticed that Favorite Projects Volume 2 is out.  See the quilt just under the number “2″?  That’s the quilt Jeanie sent to me to quilt in time for Houston.  Thanks Jeanie!   The last couple of days in between quilting the forest (more on that in a bit) I’ve been doing some pattern testing for

Quilting a forest.
I’m quilting a forest and my customer said I can share some photos.  I’m not going to reveal the full quilt mostly because it’s hers and partly because I don’t have the space to take a picture.  This quilt is larger than a king size and I just passed the halfway point quilting these trees.

Bernina 24 foot revisit and bunny ears
Linda M. Poole is issuing a challenge to her blog readers.  We often make quilts for other people – babies, friends, grand bababies, nieces, nephews, people we don’t even know who are in need of the warmth, care & concern a quilt will bring.  I am in process of making a quilt for me…the next in the “Twilight in the Bronx” series.  This quilt is going in a direction that I didn’t e

Ever since I subscribed to American Patchwork & Quilting
I’ve admired and hoped one day I’d have Laura Boehnke’s job as pattern tester for American Patchwork & Quilting. As I chatted with Giovanna last night I realized I have Laura’s job…just not for American Patchwork & Quilting.  I get to test patterns for Benartex.  It’s so much fun to realize a dream has come true. I got a call from my friend neen yesterday…she

It bears repeating…I love teaching machine quilting!!
I love teaching machine quilting.  Each student and each machine gives me something to think about and a new approach to how I teach.  This morning two of my students had these beautiful “Aha!” moments as Sarah Vedeler calls them. I always talk to my students about speed, that a good even, medium speed will make a huge difference in how consistent their quilting will become.  In my last class, quite the feisty group, I started issuing “speeding violations” when a couple of the gals would just race the machine.  With several of the gals I’ve done this in class, much to their amusement, but th