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Show and tell…

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Jan McPike from Brisbane, Australia, sent me this photo of her beautiful quilt. She says:

I have always loved the Piece O’ Cake designs, so when my quilt guild announced a blue & white challenge for this year’s quilt show I thought I would take part.  I have made a blue & white version of Aunt Millie’s Garden. It is done in the quilt-as-you-go method and machine quilted by me.

Aunt Millie's Garden made by Jan McPike

Aunt Millie’s Garden made by Jan McPike

It takes discipline to work in only one color but aren’t the results specatcular! Very nicely done, Jan. Thank you for sharing your quilt with us!

It’s all about the book…

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I made a video about the Color book a little while back and then promptly forgot to post it. I need another me to keep up with social media :-). At any rate, here it is! Let me know what you think.

TAS (the applique society)…

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I flew to Seattle on Monday for two lovely days of teaching for The Applique Society’s retreat at Seabeck. This was their 10th retreat and it was great fun. The retreat space is both rustic and modern (there’s wifi, but no TV :-)) surrounded by beautiful grounds. We could see water—Hood Canal—and (when the clouds cleared) the Olympic Mountain.

There were about 50 enthusiastic quilters and two teachers. Half the group were with me one day, the other half the next. After two days of class, they had one more day of just fun without any classes. To me, that sounds like an excellent retreat.

These ladies come from all over the Pacific NW and they have formed good friendships. If you are an appliquer in this part of the world, you ought to search them out!

I wish I had taken pictures but I tend to live in the moment when I am working/teaching and mostly forget to grab the camera. Instead I’m adding this picture that I almost could have taken there, except that I didn’t.

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Big news from TQS…

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In honor of International Quilting Weekend, March 20-22, 2015, The Quilt Show (www.thequiltshow.com), the web TV show hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, will open all of its shows from the first nine series—shows 100-1513—for the entire weekend. I’m telling you today so that you can reserve time this weekend.

For three special days, everyone will have the chance to view over 200 shows, featuring some of the quilting world’s leading artists, for FREE. See—that’s big news!

This year’s sponsors are contributing over $5000 in prizes, including the Grand Prize, a BERNINA 550 QE.  Other prizes you have a chance to win are:

  • Innova – Have your quilt professionally quilted ($500 value)
  • Superior Threads – five $100 gift certificates
  • RJR Fabrics – a Delicious Selection of RJR Fabrics
  • AccuQuilt – GO! Big Electric Fabric Cutter
  • Missouri Star Quilt Company – $500 in Quilter’s Cash plus signed copies of Volume 1 of Block Magazine and Man Sewing Swag
The Quilt Show_Season_6

Here I am with Alex and Ricky.

As you may already know, I appeared as the featured artist on TQS in show 611. If you didn’t have the opportunity to see this show the first time around, now you’ll have the chance to see it—and so many other terrific shows—at no cost in this unprecedented three-day offer.

I hope that you’ll share this information with all of your quilting friends. It’s a fantastic opportunity to enjoy three days of learning and fun without leaving your home…all for free.

Enjoy the shows, and thanks for helping to spread the word!

Click here to go to the TQS website landing page.

Put your light in the right spot…

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This is what happens if your light is way over there on the table and you are sitting too far from it. ‘Growing toward the light’ happens especially to hand sewers/appliquers. It is very hard on your back and shoulders.

Place your light in position so that you can sit up straight and see what you are doing, both at the same time. This probably means that you need an adjustable floor lamp. I use my Stella floor light, but there are other lamps that also work.

As always, pay attention to your posture.

If you are right-handed, the light should come from the left. Left-handers, the light should come from the right. In both cases this keeps the shadow from your dominant hand from falling on your work, where you are trying to see what you are doing.

Show and Tell…

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Ilsabe emailed this photo of her quilt. She says:

I had one of your books for years and finally just finished a quilt based off of one of the quilts.  I hand quilted it.  So I thought I would send a picture of how it turned out.  I love your color choices in the original but wound up in a different direction.

IlsabeUrban

I am always happy to see how other quilters use our patterns. Ilsabe, you did a great jpb!

FYI: In case you are wondering, this pattern is from our book, Applique Outside the Lines. The quilt in question is Peppermint Sparkle.