A Quilter's Gathering

Safe and sound in Manchester, NH at the beautiful Radisson hotel getting ready for a Quilter's Gathering, a wonderful show,  which opens Wednesday evening with a dinner and a speaker - the effervescent Dianne Hire. Fellow NQACJ Molly Waddell and I will begin judging the quilts at 10 this morning, finishing up tomorrow. I'll be presenting a lecture on "Quilting by Check" (longarm quilting) on Thursday at the lunchtime lecture, teaching a "Binding Technique Needs Improvement" workshop on Friday evening from 6-9 and a full day workshop on Sunday, my Scrappy Star will that was featured in Fons & Porter's Scrap Quilt of September, 2011. Come join me at a lecture or workshop - lots to learn!!!!!

Monday, November 5th, I'll be on the Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Blog Tour all day so come by for a visit. They'll be prizes and lots of fun chat. Hope to see you on Monday!

Win at Lowell Quilt Festival

Pineapple Patience just arrived back from Lowell this afternoon, was repacked and shipped off to Houston. She did garner a 2nd place ribbon in Wall Quilts!

Going to Houston!

Just received notification that "Pineapple Patience" has been juried into International Quilt Festival in Houston!!!. Meeting two friends there this year who are flying in from HI and AZ - what a blast!

Winners at Vermont Quilt Festival

"Pineapple Patience" received a Blue Ribbon as did customer Beverly Nickerson's beautiful Bear Paw quilt that I quilted for her! Didn't get up to Vermont this year, too much traveling already in June, but was able to see the winning quilts on their site - gorgeous!

13 Pineapples

Spend the day making Pineapple blocks - up to 13 now and time to starch more of the black silk and interface and slice up more of the ties to keep the variety going. I'm thinking of changing out the thin gold stripe for the outer edge blocks. Will see what silk I have that would work.

NQA Show - Columbus, OH

Had a wonderful time at the NQA Show last week. Helped out with the technology in the Judging Room, pinned on ribbons, re-connected with Certified Judges from all over the country (esp. TX), celebrated the show winners, and taught at the Friday Morning Medley, a 15 minute segment on Quilting Designs EIGHT TIMES. Practice makes perfect! Each group did "get it" at the end so I was pleased. Also celebrated the ribbon wins of 2 customer quilts, Serena Vrnak's quilt, "A few of my favorite things" won 1st place in Group Quilts, and her quilt, "Family and Friends" won an Honorable Mention.
Congratulations to all the winners!

Friday Medley - Quilt #1

Just finished the quilting on the "Well Designed" sample, binding will happen later in the week. "Feathered to Death" sample is stitching out its sample now - love my Intelliquilter!