I’m a sucker for polka dots. I just love them. When I saw this jelly roll of polka dots somehow it just wound up coming home with me. I’ve had that jelly roll for awhile now, trying to figure out what to do with it. Last year when I took a class from Bill Kerr …
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We have a local group called the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Council. They do a great job promoting fiber arts in our area – certainly quilts, but also knitting, weaving, lace making, mixed media…basically anything fiber related. The Council holds a non-judged spring show during even years and a really big judged exposition during odd years …
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I’ve talked before about my group of friends who go on quarterly quilt retreats. We do a lot of sewing, and I mainly work on piecing quilts, but everyone else is very skilled at making bags and totes. They make at least one bag each retreat, and they are so good that they often just …
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I was on a roll in Q1’19. Of 11 projects that I planned I finished 6 – a few of which were only in the fabric pull stage when the quarter started. I hope to be as productive in Q2’19! 1. Generative Grunge HSTs: I’ll write more about this later, but I’ve settled on a …
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I just love the Gingiber critter panels. I think their original one – at least the first one I saw – had a cute bear. I avoided buying it for a long time…but man it was cute! Their next panel had cats and I loved it even more. To make up for lost time I …
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I really like most everything that Sweetwater fabrics does. They do great text prints with pretty coordinating fabrics – I’ve made a lot of quilts from their collections. When I saw this BOM that they were hosting a few years ago I signed up quickly! I was slow to get the quilt done because the …
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