March 16th
2007
National Quilting Day
It’s National Quilting Day on Saturday, March 17th! What will you do to celebrate? Here’s a few ideas:
Visit the National Quilting Association website to find out more about National Quilting Day. Visit the Virginia Consortium of Quilters for a list of Games for National Quilting Day (these would be great for a quilt retreat too!).
Go to a quilt show! Check out the Dallas Quilt Celebration, The Cabin Branch and Stone House Quilters Quilt Show, The Glendale Quilt Guild Quilt Show, The Broward Quilt Expo, The Seaway Trail Foundation’s Quilt Show, or The Quilters Anonymous Quilt Show, just for starters. If you’re in my area, check out the Gussy Goose Craft Shop’s Quilt Show! Yes, despite the fact that the big spring bazaar is going full steam this weekend and the parking situation is madness (more than the usual madness at Patch Barracks!), the Gussy Goose is open, and presenting their annual Quilt Show.
Can’t get there? Grab some friends and have a Quilting Bee! Visit your LQS and buy fabric to start a new quilt project, then spend the rest of the weekend quilting! Or, get out a UFO or WISP (I know you have them!) and quilt all weekend so you can make some progress.
At the very least, snuggle up under a quilt and watch a movie like How to Make an American Quilt or read a book like The Quiltmaker’s Gift with your child.
What will I be doing? Hangin’ out at the Gussy Goose, presenting machine quilting demonstrations, signing books and CD’s, and then later, hosting a Quilt ‘til You Wilt with my quilting buddies until the wee hours on Sunday! I’ll also be machine quilting a UFO: an Irish Chain quilt that I pieced for a class a few years ago, and I marked it and started the quilting while I was in the States with Dawn for the Gaudynski workshop (I’m showing a sneak peek of the quilting that I already have done here). Whatever you do for the day, stop back by and share!
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Comment by Cazzie
March 19, 2007 at 2:38 am
How gorgeous, I love those quilts, I dream of having one on my bed and one on each of my daughters beds, perhaps one day I will learn the art of quilting
Comment by Nadine
March 19, 2007 at 8:31 am
Hi Cazzie! Give quilting a try soon, it’s not as hard as people think. And, it usually means that there’s never a reason for anyone in the house to be cold! Thanks for stopping by!
Comment by Minu
March 19, 2007 at 4:27 pm
I just visited your website and your work is beautiful. I really love the color and fantasy of your latest work. I would really like to feature you on my blog.
Minu
http://focuson.livejournal.com/
Comment by Nadine
March 23, 2007 at 8:01 am
Hi Minu! How lovely of you to offer to feature my work on your blog. If you do, please let me know so I can take a peek. Thanks for looking in!
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April 6, 2007 at 7:56 am
[…] Part of the problem is that in Paducah, I was doing a completely different type of quilting than I usually do (which is why I took the class in the first place!). So now, when I’m home and working on quilting in my (mostly) normal style, it’s proving more challenging than I thought it would be to produce the same quality work on the Bernina as I can on the Pfaff. I say “mostly” normal style, because I did decide to quilt the Irish Chain quilt with silk thread in the needle and Aurifil 50/2 in the bobbin, so I’m making smaller stitches than I usually do, and that’s undoubtedly contributing to the problem a bit. When I’m making smaller stitches, it’s not the rhythmic sound of one stitch at a time from the machine that I’m listening to and trying to coordinate with, but the pitch of the motor at a certain speed. Totally different ballgame here. Maybe I’m trying to get used to too many things at once. […]
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