Award Winning
My Say Yes to the Dress quilts won the Viewers’ Choice award for the mixed media category. Such an honor to win but it was much better seeing people smile while looking at my quilts.
Scenes from a Quilt Show
This weekend was the Great Alaska Quilt Show – the annual quilt show for the Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters. Below are some of quilts that filled me with inspiration and ideas. The large and medium quilt viewers’ choice award winners It was fun to see my quilts with such beautiful company. Part of the small
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Gathered Memories and Dreams
This is a big magpie girl quilt for the upcoming quilt show. I used the same blue wallpaper fabric quilted with lots of flowers for the background. There is dot fabric and giant ruffles for the dress. I loved working larger – I can’t wait to try it again and practice photographing larger quilts so
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Ready to Learn New Things
The Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters annual quilt show is this coming weekend. I decided to make new girl quilts for the show in a big size. I used a blue wallpaper like fabric for the wall quilted in vertical lines and a brown fabric quilted with horizontal line for the floor. I used text fabric
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Quilting Cold
I was sick for almost a week with a nasty cold. What did I do when not sleeping or working? I quilted. Eight of those quilt tops I made earlier in the year are now quilted! This quilt is my favorite. I quilted it with a chevron pattern and changed the thread color as I
Giveaway – Canvas Play Winners
Summer in Alaska – Alyeska Resort – It’s a beautiful day in Alaska and a wonderful time to announce winners! I decided to give 11 of the 12 canvases away as I like to keep at least one of such projects to remember what I’ve done. I also couldn’t resist picking two more winners who
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Cake in the Rain
She left her cake in the rain (9†x 13â€) I received an envelope with a art quilt top in it. Rena from the Anchorage Log Cabin Quilter had created this sweet sad girl who had left her cake in the rain. I was smitten with her feet, the dripping frosting and boots. Rena indicated
Say Yes to the Dress
I love watching television and movies while I sew. We don’t have cable at home so I had never seen ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ until it came to Netflix. The show is mildly entertaining, but the dresses are amazing. I had stitched charm squares together to make backgrounds for art quilts; they reminded me
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Giveaway : Canvas Play
Playing with these stitched canvases has been oodles of fun but I don’t have room to keep them all. Would you like to have one? Leave a comment before 5pm AK time on Monday, Aug 27 telling me which one is your favorite. I will pick a few (or several) winners.
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Canvas Play : Love
#12 – Love (9†x 9â€) – Zipper tape stitched in place; fabric sticker letters placed and stitched around; tape measure fabric crinkled as stitched; paper heart stitched
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