Jul
31
Teapots in Paradise
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I just returned from International Quilt Festival in Long Beach, California. My next-door neighbors were the gals from Quilters’ Paradise in Clovis. When they saw my Teapots 2 to Appliqué they told me that their appliqué teacher Adena uses the book to teach blanket-stitch machine appliqué! Very cool!
Here’s the project from the class, photo courtesy [...]
Jun
5
Teapots in the kitchen
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Marion Butler of Hoekwil, South Africa, told me that her daughter Jane asked her to make a wallhanging for her new kitchen. I was delighted to learn that Marion made a teapot wall quilt using the patterns in my Teapots 2 to Appliqué!
Isn’t it beautiful? I especially love how Marion mixed scale in the teapots. [...]
Jan
11
Teapots brighten community
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I’m so delighted at this fantastic show and tell sent to me by Ann Millard of Wilmington, North Carolina.
The story of this bright, beautiful quilt, which uses patterns from my Teapots to Appliqué:
My quilting bee was asked by by son’s girlfriend, Lyndsay Benson, to help her DAR chapter make a teapot quilt. The name [...]
Jan
5
Another spectacular teapot find
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If you like teapots, head on over to my All About Appliqué blog and feast your eyes on the masterpiece created for the Tualatin Valley Quilt Guild!
I’m so proud.
Until next time,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Oct
30
Awesome Asian Teapots
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I came across this entry on longarm quilter Nancy Gambrel’s blog, where she shows off her customers’ quilts and the beautiful quilting she’s done on them.
Lo and behold, there’s an absolutely beautiful teapot quilt made by Pat Besenhofer, and I recognize it as being from my Teapots 2 to Appliqué. What an internet find! [...]
Feb
1
Florida teapots
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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 [...]
Jul
16
Apple tea
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When I set up my booth for the Monterey show, I noticed that there was a little space beneath A Spot of Tea that could fit a single-row banner type of quilt.
I started thinking about what I could stitch up to go in that space. I looked back over the designs in Teapots 2 to [...]
Jun
22
Election tea set
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My wacky wonderful friend Cathy Perlmutter made an election year tea set! I can’t tell you how much I adore this combination of my brain and hers.
Cathy says, “I’m calling this Constant Comment. Nothing gets more comment these days than Obama.
“I picked your teapot with the top handle that looks like a question mark, [...]
Apr
14
I’ve been saving some great news to tell you. Always Quilting in San Mateo, California, is running a block-of-the-month program with Teapots 2 to Appliqué!
It was through their BOM with the original Teapots book that I got to know the shop’s owners, Kit and Julie. They contacted me with an emergency book order, and told [...]
Mar
29
Tea Garden
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Pam, you’ve done it again! Pam Crooks is one of the members of the small quilt group I’ve been stitching with for over 11 years. She’s a super-busy gal, working full-time and traveling for her position with a banking institution, plus participating in so many appliqué projects it could make your head spin. Yet she [...]


