Last weekend was my home guild’s quilt show, The Pajaro Valley Quilt Association’s 31st annual. I look forward to this so much every year… it seems like I have a smile on my face all weekend! It’s a chance to give greetings and hugs to friends and acquaintances and to show off all of my [...]

Toni Caiola of Glendale, Arizona, is the winner for February among registered readers of the blog. Congratulations Toni!
Toni is receiving my collection of kid-quilt patterns, In a Twinkle: Youthful Quilt Designs and my pattern Courtyard Squares.
When told she had won the prize, Toni responded, “Woo hoo!” If you register you can be eligible for [...]

I was recently alerted by a quilter in Florida that she’d seen and purchased my book Teapots to Appliqué at the Quilt Shop of Deland and that the shop had a beautiful sample hanging. Of course I went to investigate. On the shop’s home page, about halfway down, there’s a slide show called “Tour Our [...]