Archive | October, 2006

CD Signing at the Fall Craft Bazaar on Patch Barracks

20. October 2006

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The Gussy Goose has invited me to the Fall Craft Bazaar this weekend in the Patch Barracks Gymnasium. The Bazaar is open from 10:00 to 18:00 Saturday and Sunday, and I’ll be there from 11:00 to 1:00 on Saturday, with the new Machine Quilting—Master the Basics Workshop on CD loaded on the laptop and [...]

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Christmas comes early for Electric Quilters

20. October 2006

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I’m so excited! Electric Quilt is finally releasing Version 6 of the software, just in time for the holidays! I’d been kind of wondering about a new version for a while now. I went to the site this morning to download the free palette for EQ5 (see this post), and saw the [...]

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Things that keep me from quilting #9: Sick, sick, sick!

19. October 2006

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I’ve been down with a really bad cold for nearly a week, and it’s still going strong. There were also issues with a hosting change and server migration that was in the works, so the Driven To Quilt site was having some problems that I had to spend much time on to get it [...]

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More on the Grasping Reality: Fifteen quilt

12. October 2006

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I’ve added a bit more about the Grasping Reality: Fifteen quilt to the Gallery. Detail shots are coming, as soon as I get a chance to do some website programming on my own site! Read about the design of the quilt, where it originated, and see the original artwork that inspired it. See [...]

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Quilting with Patches and Shadow: Helping out

10. October 2006

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It’s been awhile since the last Quilting with Patches and Shadow update, but here’s a good one for you. I’m working on the Swarovski crystals on the Grasping Reality: Fifteen quilt, and of course, Shadow has to be right in the middle of it all. ‘Course, Shadow has to be in the [...]

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Favorite Things: It’s hip to be square!

9. October 2006

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Okay, I realize this is not your usual quilting type tool, and no, I’m not taking up carpentry along with all my other hats that I wear. This tool is a borderline “must have,” though, even for us quilter types, and it definitely saved me the other day as I was finishing up my [...]

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