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I’m a bit embarrassed to admit I screwed up! For a number of years I was the registrar for a local non-profit quilt show, so I know the importance of carefully following entry instructions so as not to make more work for the Registrar. I have also registered several Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilts with AAQI (they… Continue reading Coming clean and happy endings

I’m happy to say that my Mini Flower Art Quilt tutorial, which I made to encourage quilters to make little quilts for Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI), has done just that! Judy Baumann of Austin, TX was inspired by my tutorial (which she found on Ami Simms blog – Thank you, Ami!) and by a… Continue reading Sharing inspirations

I was readying this piece (blocking it again) for donation, and after putting it up on the board for display noticed the light hit it from the side and showed a different view – the quilting popped! I’m not so sure that is a good thing or not; it makes me think I should have… Continue reading A different view…

I took a few minutes to mess around with my the Gelli Arts gel printing plate and here are some of the results. I think it will be fun to use them in some small fiber collage pieces, I’ll post them when I do.

I haven’t added this art quilt to my website quilt gallery yet. It has the most machine quilting I have ever done on one piece and it was quilted on my home machine before I bought my HQ Sweet Sixteen!

So I’m trying to focus on the yard work when I see these rusty old axe heads and now I just want to toss some fabric on them and rust dye…maybe another day.

Check out this inspiring and heartwarming (and educational!) video.

Next step is to register it with the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative and trust that as a Priority: Alzheimer’s Quilt it will earns $$$ while making the new owner very happy. AAQI – Everybody wins!

Another hand painted whole cloth (12″x 12″). I’ve never seriously tried to paint hands before but I was pretty pleased with these. This piece is on display at Visions Art Museum as part of the “Text and Texting” member challenge. It and many other pieces are for sale at VAM.

The June/July issue of Quilting Arts magazine published the finalist quilts from their Reader Challenge “Sketch to Art Quilt” and I’m happy to say my little quilt is one of them!