If you like flowers and would like to do some relaxing hand sewing, stay right here!
I can offer you beautiful appliqué quilts and techniques for hand needle turn appliqué,
as well as for making beautiful flowers from French and silk ribbons.

Flowers have always brightened my day, in any form from fabric to garden blossoms. I enjoy growing them in a garden to seeing them grow in fabric on a quilt. I like to go one step further and “gild the lily” by enhancing my floral appliqué quilts with embellished flowers made from beautiful ribbons. These ribbon flowers are a delight to make, fun to use and your hands are not soiled with dirt!

I hope you’ll visit further, as I’d like to share my love of flowers and floral appliqué with you.

Thank you and may flowers always brighten your day!
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TEACHING SCHEDULE FOR 2008

Feb, 19-27, Quilt Ventures Virginia Tour
March 24-April 2, Quilt Ventures Pennsylvania tour
April 5-6, Amoskeag Quilters Guild Show, Manchester, NH
April 18-27, Quilt Ventures Paducah Tour
May 15-16, Trinity Valley Quilters, Fort Worth, Texas
May 21-24, Baltimore Applique Society, Baltimore, MD
May 26, Rising Star Quilt Guild, Burlington, MA
June 7, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
June 19, Soo-ni-pi Quilt Guild, Newport, NH
June 30-July 6, Quilt Hawaii ’08, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
July 31-Aug 2, Bayberry Quilt Show, Harwich, Cape Cod, MA
August 15-24, Quilt Ventures Nashville Tour
August 20-24, AQS Expo Quilt Show, Nashville, TN
September 12-13, Dyffryn Clwyd Quilters, Ruthin, Wales, UK
September 17, Garstang Patchwork Quilters, Lancashire, UK
October 4-14, Quilt Ventures New England Tour

For more information about Quilt Ventures and Quilt Hawaii visit HERE.
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These are tidbits that I would like to share with you each month.
They may be a quote, a story, a recipe, a poem, a bit of news, just for you, as well as my schedule.
Please let me now if you enjoy these, and I’ll continue with them.

May, 2008

At last it is May after a very long, cold and snowy winter here in New Hampshire.

I have just returned from our Quilt Ventures tour to Paducah and the AQS Quilt show. The Dogwood, Redbuds and Azaleas were in peak bloom. I don’t ever remember seeing them so beautiful. The quilts at the show were wonderful!  A visit to the “backroom” at Hancock’s Fabrics also was a beautiful sight to behold. Lots and lots of wonderful fabric bundles – full collection packets, neatly packed and tied with a bow were just piled high on counters and very tempting! I quickly gave in to temptation and purchased at least a half dozen of these bundles. While I do not know what I will do with them just yet, they give me a feeling of excitement and the promise of things to come. Just like a packet of mixed flower seeds will give beauty, although you are not quite sure of what will develop. For now I am content to just enjoy the full collections of each of the fabric packets.

Isn’t that part of the excitement of being a quilter, the hope and promise of things to come!



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