Tag Archive | "quilt shows"

Coming Soon! Inchie Quilts

Friday, March 27, 2009

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Coming Soon! Inchie Quilts

This was a great way to wake up: Even without the picture of the cover, it’s still a pretty awesome feeling to see your own book listed at Amazon.com! This caused quite a stir in our house on Saturday morning! The book is also listed at the AQS site, in the Upcoming Releases section and [...]

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Bright Lights

Sunday, January 25, 2009

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My parents live in a rural area in Southern Utah, about 40 miles from…well…anything. It’s a lovely area, mostly nice and quiet, with the expected wildlife like coyote, snakes, rabbits, squirrels, pheasant, elk and of course, the deer that wander all over and sometimes visit the yard. When we lived in Las Vegas [...]

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Keep It or Bin It: Lickety Grip, WonderFil Rayon, and the Clover Embroidery Threader

Sunday, January 18, 2009

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I’m finally getting around to sharing some of my experiences with some new products I picked up at the quilt shows last October. Up on the Keep It or Bin It review block today are a few products that I’ve been using and testing since then. Did they make the grade? Let’s see: Lickety [...]

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AQS Show Des Moines–Quilts, Shopping, Walking

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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The AQS Show in Des Moines was a great time! Kimberly and I walked and shopped and dined our way through Des Moines, laughing the entire time. I’ll let you take in the quilt show stats and recap at her blog, and confine my first report to some thoughts and impressions: Never let your [...]

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Patchwork Times: Is that smoke I smell?

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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I think my hair is on fire. I feel like I’m running around in circles, and I think I smell smoke, so that must be my hair. I looked at my blog today, just like I’ve done for the past two or three days when I’ve meant to post something, and thought “Where [...]

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IQA Quilt Show: Poor Mailing Practices

Saturday, September 6, 2008

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Some shows will treat your precious quilts like you do and some won’t. Last week I received my quilt, Material Marquetry, back from the folks at Quilts, Inc., producers of the IQA Quilt Show in Houston, where it has been since August last year as part of the In the American Tradition VI special [...]

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