Fine art to funky traditional: life and quilting
The latest issue of my email newsletter is out and is bursting full of color potential for your quilts and your fabrics! Here’s a sneak peek:
I answer the #1 question I received during my April/May book tour with a new video
I offer exercises for incorporating the 20 new hot colors for quilters into your quilts [...]
As I walked the aisles of Spring Quilt Market, I saw hundreds of quilts, but only a few really stood out as having an outstanding use of color. Here are two of my favorites:
This quilt is from Pamela Mostek’s Piccadilly fabric line, and it is stunning. My photography does not do it justice. The violets, [...]
I attended Spring Quilt Market in Pittsburgh this year as a vendor for the first time. It was a wonderful opportunity to talk with quilt shop owners and teachers to find out what they needed from publishers. Here I’m educating shop owners on Color Mastery and the twelve months of classes they can teach from [...]
I’m thrilled and humbled to announce my publishing company, Willow Ridge Press, will be going to a second printing for Color Mastery, only three months after its February publication. Most books never go to a second printing, even after years in print.
Quilting teachers, shop owners, and quilters have embraced Color Mastery, its quilts and classes, [...]
May is always a whirlwind with end-of-school activities for my sons. Add my book tour and Quilt Market to that and it’s a blur. Like careening down the roller coaster with your hands up, laughing and screaming at the same time.
At Sew Much Fun in Columbus, we had a great group, including one quilter who [...]
First impressions mean a lot, and I was greeted with a feast of color and a warm welcome as I entered Sew Bee It quilt shop in Ringgold, GA. Owner Gloria Black gave me a warm hug, introduced me to her fantastic staff, and gave me a tour around her incredible shop.
If I worked at [...]
Sandi from Colonial Quilts sent me this photo of her on her 2005 Honda VTX 1300R, she’s named HerMan. Behind her is a Circular Bargello she made and a Stack and Slash quilt her son made when he was 12. Sandi told me many quilters also are motorcycle enthusiasts, as she found out on a [...]
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