Sampler practice piece.
Hi everyone! Merry 12th night of Christmas (today January 5th 2020)!
Sew I will be leaving for California two weeks from today to visit my brother and his family and go to Road to California show with my brother Pat and sister in law Carol. I would appreciate your prayers for an easy, safe trip! They have gone to R2CA twice before when I had quilts in the show. I have a quilt in this show too…The Wizards’ Duel. It looks a little different from this picture (I must get a new photo made). I took the judge’s comments from Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival 2018 to heart and fixed the lower left mountainous rocks and added additional quilting and painting to the entire rocky area. Then I sent it to Pennsylvania National Quilt Festival in Oak, PA and won a blue ribbon for Best Interpretation of Theme. So I am hopeful I get some kind of ribbon at R2CA this year. We will be there Wednesday night the 22nd, all day that Thursday, and a little bit that Friday morning. I hope to see some of you there!
Wizards’ Duel before I improved the rocky area.
If you saw my last blog post you know I have lots of plans for this year, so I won’t relist that. I know I have listed more quilts than I can possibly make, but then I can choose the ones I feel like making and put the others on the shelf for later.
By the way, if you got a Bernina v8 software for Christmas or some such, remember I have a book with skill-building projects to help you learn to really enjoy that software, Twelve Skill-Building Projects for V8.
Carrying on the skill-building theme, I am writing a skill building book on fabric embellishment, and another skill-building projects on various quilting styles good for art quilts. I hope to get these two books published this year! They require samples when I don’t already have one. I like “skill-building” because it is not trying to tell you every little thing, but provide projects that will enable new or improved skills for your own fabric art. I also am planning on making lots of new videos for my YouTube channel, but not until I get back home.
Sew happy everyone! I hope you manage to get to at least one quilt show this year. If you can’t get to one you really want to there are usually a lot of interesting YouTube videos about some of the shows. I will take my cameras with me, but not sure what I will get done with that since I will be there with family.