Mark the weekend of September 13 and 14, 2014 on your calendars because you won’t want to miss the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum’s 19th annual Fibrefest. The two-day festival of textiles and fibre arts will close this year with a Lamb Race over the main falls in downtown Almonte! The show runs Saturday September 13 […]
I am speechless! MJ Doherty took Temagami Highlands and hooked it-it is absolutely gorgeous. Carol Shewan (a semi-local hooker based in Westport, Ontario) has been teaching stained glass rug hooking and has been offering my patterns to students. We thought they would work but WOW! I love it and can’t wait to […]
If you want to try this technique, contact me and I will happily send you a PDF file of the drawing! Step one: trace non-reversed drawing on your black background fabric using chalk To do this, tape the black fabric over the drawing leaving an approximately 2” margin all around it. The fabric […]
I have been asked by a few quilters for videos on techniques and while I am not quite tech savvy enough to produce video I will be making posts. I have also written up some information notes that might help get projects done and I will begin posting those as well. There is […]
Here are my Rainbow Trout and Crappie. Hmmmm, maybe fish for dinner?
The fishy blocks are done! Lots less French Knots and X’s this month-Yay! We also get a peek into Meg Hawley’s sense of humour-anyone ever had Crappie? Here are my tips for Block 7: Thought I might revisit placing the fish on your background fabric. Nothing like tracing it, getting ready to trim, and realizing […]
Looking good enough to eat!! These are mine 🙂 And all the fishies…….
What an awesome day yesterday in beautiful Prescott, ON. Spent the day at We R Quilts finishing up some stained glass quilts with a very fun, inspirational group of ladies! Also got to meet some Row by Row shop hoppers from across the border. I am always so excited to see what happens when people […]
I have started hearing from people who have made the Killarney quilt either with me in a class or on their own. As promised, here are a couple to share. I love to celebrate people’s results and hope to keep sharing everyone’s projects as they come in! Take a look:
After a fun-filled, busy few days it was time to head back home. I had planned a few stops on the way and met some great new people at The Muskoka Quilting Company in Bracebridge ON and 3 Gals and a Quilt Shop in Huntsville ON. I even ran into Laurie from Northcott at the […]