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.

AUGUST, 2008

I hope this month finds you enjoy the days of summer. I find myself enjoying all aspects of quilting this month. First, I’ll attend the 20th anniversary the celebration of the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts on August 1. I remember attending the opening when I was just a guild member and had no idea about what the future held for me, except that I loved being a quilter and was very proud of our new museum.  I will next enjoy being a teacher and sharing techniques and a lecture with students at the Lowell Quilt Festival later that week.

Then on to being a vendor at the Bayberry Quilt Show on Cape Cod. Now I look at things from a consumer’s point of view and offer my books and ribbons for sale. Finally, I become a student again at the American Quilters Society Quilt Exposition at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee at the end of the month. It’s fun and relaxing to just sit back and learn a new thing or two. In between my quilting events this month, I am at home working as an author on two new books!

I wouldn’t change a thing about this month! What a blessing to be a quilter!

I hope you have a great month also! Enjoy your blessings!

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