Monday
July 31st
2006

Stars In My Hand travels to Minnesota

Stars In My Hand is on its way to Duluth, Minnesota for the Quilting on the Waterfront Quilt Show, August 17-19, 2006. Quilting on the Waterfront is an all-machine-quilting show, with separate divisions for domestic and longarm machines. If you’re in the area, check it out!

And remember, today is the last day in July to enter the Quilted Whispers Contest. I’ll be drawing a name for the winner tomorrow, so get those last minute entries in now!

Quiltfest at Patchcom in Schönaich

Yesterday I visited the Quiltfest at Birgit Klein’s Patchcom shop in Schönaich, just a few towns over from where I live in Gerlingen. It was the 6th Annual Quiltfest, and a wonderful visit it was! There were lovely quilts on display, demos and small workshops on fabric flowers, small bags and other great techniques, sewing machines for sale, and of course, FABRIC on sale as well. Birgit asked me to bring the Stars In My Hand quilt to show, so it had a nice day out of it’s sack where it normally lives right now between shows.

If you couldn’t make it to the Quiltfest, or don’t live near Stuttgart, check out the Patchcom website, where you can see pictures from the 2005 Quiltfest, download a pattern for Mrs. Patchcom by Ula Lenz, and of course, order luscious fabrics and supplies online. The Patchcom Quiltfest is definitely on my show calendar for next year.

Things that keep me from quilting #5: Site maintenance

I’ve spent most of this “too hot to quilt” week doing website maintenance, so some of you may see a bit of a different look. I say some of you, because if you’re viewing the site on a monitor that’s set for 800×600 resolution, you won’t see much difference in the overall look. Here’s a hint though: you’ll be able to see so much more, in a much more “roomy” style, if you change your resolution on your monitor to at least 1024×768! Not just on this site either, but on the World Wide Web as a whole. So many pages are just so full of information that 800 pixels wide is just not enough to hold it all!

Other than adding more wide open space, you’ll also notice that I’ve added a search function to the site. You’ll see a search box like this on every page:

Try it! This function is in Beta, which means that it’s in the testing phase, so if you get anything weird looking, that’s why. I’m still bug hunting and cleaning up the code. I hope the site search feature is helpful to you. Do leave a comment to let me know of any weirdness, and how you like it!