Archive for the 'quilting' Category

Summer = Flowers

Published Date: July 16th, 2010
Category: quilting

Hi
This summer I have gotten into creating flowers in vases.  You can make flower bouquets over and over again no two will look alike.  I use silk flowers and fuse them in place using 606 Spray and Fix.  It is a great product for this kind of thing.
This one is made with silk flowers.  I made [...]

Spring Travels 2010

Published Date: June 30th, 2010
Category: Friends, Travels, quilting

Here I am back again.  After all the traveling this spring I am finally getting back to updating everything.  April 30, 2010 was Queen’s Day in Amsterdam and I had a great visit with my friends.  Here are some fun photos showing the kids sale blankets on the streets and lots of orange on Queen’s [...]

April Lancaster show

Published Date: April 16th, 2010
Category: Travels, quilting

This year we had a lot of changes in Lancaster.  AQS took over the April show in Lancaster, PA.  There is still a show / vendor mall at the Centennial Inn out on Rt 30 across from the Host Hotel.  It was as nice as ever and the weather was great.  The Amish community was very [...]

3, 2, 1 ACTION

Published Date: March 15th, 2010
Category: quilting

Hi
We taped for Quilting Arts TV earlier this month.  It is always lots of fun.  I will show you the project we did and then some shots of the studio and green room.

This is Sunset flowers.  Made with Flower napkin paper images, antique lace between the windows and a small ribbon boarder in the frame.  [...]

Fused Landscape Class

Published Date: February 17th, 2010
Category: quilting

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At the end of last month I arranged for a Hands On Sunday Brunch for local shopowners and teachers.  They learned about all the Spray and Fix family of fabric friendly spray adhesives and then everyone made a landscape postcard.  The class went well.  Everyone was given a kit with a photo printed on paper and learned how [...]

Winter Japan Gardens

Published Date: January 25th, 2010
Category: Travels, quilting

Japanese gardens are beautiful in all season.  We visited in December in the southern island of Japan, Kushu so the weather was similar to late fall in New England.  There were no flowers however the garden were beautiful with the fall maple leaves changing and evergreen trees along with the water elements and the walking paths.  Here [...]

Inspiration from Japan

Published Date: January 6th, 2010
Category: Travels, quilting

Here are some inspirational photos from my trip to Japan.  The school kids are so cute.  I asked to take their photo and they were more than happy to have me take a photo.  The kids say Ni (two) instead of cheese and show two fingers.  I love the hats they all wear them.

We went [...]

Back from Kagoshima Japan

Published Date: December 18th, 2009
Category: Travels, quilting

Hi Everyone,
I am back from Kagoshima Japan.  It was a fast trip but lots of fun.  I went with a friend from High School and just having her on the trip with me was great fun.  I can not remember the last time we spent time together like that.  The WOW Quilt Art Show that [...]

Off to Japan

Published Date: November 17th, 2009
Category: Friends, Travels, quilting

My company JT Trading Corp is sponsoring the WOW (Women of the World) Friendship Quilt Display.  This group of quilts came out of a fabric challange where invitations were sent out to a group in 4 countries, Turkey, Japan, Australia and USA.  Each group leader chose 3 fabrics and invited 8 quilters from their group to take part.  All [...]

Quilt Market 2009

Published Date: October 28th, 2009
Category: Travels, quilting

Hi
Quit Market was early this year Oct 10-12.  JT Trading always has a booth and this year we felt the show was really good for us.  Everyone we spoke with was interest and took time to talk.  In past years it felt like everyone had somewhere else to be, very hectic.  This year I tried to have [...]