Monthly Archives: February 2012

Feb262012

Stupendous Stitching Book — Coming Soon!

For the past several months, I’ve been working on my Stupendous Stitching book. Because I spent my first career in “publishing” it wasn’t hard to figure out what I needed to do and how much $ I would need invest to get my book in print. My first thought was to publish with an established publisher but their contract was so onerous, I decided to go it alone. I had self-published many books before (but not on fiber art!) so [...]

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Feb202012

Seasonal Palette – Final!

This piece is done! I like it. I will feature it on my upcoming Stitch & Slash Craftsy class and then send it off to travel the country in the SAQA Seasonal Palette exhibit. Here’s a photo and some details of the machine stitching.

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Feb122012

Seasonal Palette 18

So here’s the next step. I’m revealing the purple and like it a lot. Now I have to decide how to add the decorative machine stitching. I was thinking of adding white thread to stitch over the purple but my critique group felt it would complicate my design. I have decided to cut away the purple background underneath the white to brighten the piece. That’s the next step and I’ll decide where to go from there. One decision at [...]

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Feb102012

Featured in Quilter’s Newsletter

Several of months ago, I was contacted by one of the editors of Quilter’s Newsletter who had visited my one-woman show at the Mancuso “Denver National Quilt Festival” last year. She wanted to know if they could create a pattern for my Undulation quilt. Of course I said yes and they just sent me a PDF of the opening page of the pattern they created from my art. The pattern will appear in the April/May issue and subscribers will receive [...]

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Feb72012

Teaching at Houston!

I just got an invitation to teach my Stupendous Stitching class at the International Quilt Festival in Houston this year. I’m excited to be at this prestigious event. My all-day class will be held on October 29th (my birthday!) so if you are planning to go to this festival, please think about taking my class. I guarantee you will have fun and learn a lot!