Month:June 2019
QuiltCon!
I’m going to QuiltCon! This will be my first trip to QuiltCon and I am very excited. I kind of stepped my way into it…I saw the hotel blocks were announced so I made a reservation, then the catalog came out and I started choosing classes. I was really nervous about the registration process because …
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Dots Quilt Top
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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Fiber Arts Fiesta 2019
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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Tote Bag Experiments
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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