The back-to-back Chicago and Paducah shows created travel and logistics nightmares for many quilt show vendors, and we were no exception! Ou...

Atlanta is blessed with perfect weather and climate for azaleas and dogwoods. Blossoms begin to peek out the last week or so of March and an...

On Sunday, Bettina and I went to the Bulloch Hall Quilt Show. Bulloch Hall , in Roswell, Georgia, was the childhood home of President Theodo...

For some years, six or seven traveling quilt teachers, including Bettina and me, got together for a December slumber party in Iowa. It was a...

I left the office in time to drive to Tifton, GA, for dinner with some of the members of the Wiregrass Quilters Guild . Even though it was e...

There are now larger pictures of the quilt and 30 of the blocks on our Website . I hope you enjoy them!

In 2004, I was selected to receive the Silver Star Award at the International Quilt Festival in Houston. I was very flattered to be chosen f...

When I returned from the Maryland trip, I had less than 24 hours to unpack, pack, sleep and catch another plane. This time my flight was to ...

Being raised in Iowa, I always felt the brunt of people saying that Iowa was one flat cornfield. To me, it is beautiful, rich, productive, r...

A nice bonus of my trip to Maryland was having a chance to catch up with Susan McKelvey. Our friendship goes back a long time. Today, quilte...

Ever since I read James Michener’s book Chesapeake , I wanted to visit this area. A couple of years ago, Sherry Burke called and extended th...

I first learned of Marionberries a few years ago at Don's Drive-In, a great restaurant in Portland. The Marionberry is a hybrid blackb...

…and their parents, too! Our son and his family live in a Seattle suburb, so the annual Sew Expo trip always gives us a chance to see them, ...

I go with "pew – all – up", but some say "pew- Al – up" What I know for sure is, it is not "Poo – al – up"! I...

You might have read in an earlier post that I was headed for the Sewing and Stitchery Expo in Puyallup , WA. This was the 25 th anniversary...

Next I was headed for the Thumb Butte Quilt Guild in Prescott, AZ . We have a rather mild winter in Atlanta, but I must admit when I booked...