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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
9
Blue Willow
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Blue Willow was my mother’s china pattern. Whenever I see it, it brings back warm memories of childhood. Imagine my delight when Reeze Hanson of Ottawa, Kansas, sent me pictures of a whole collection of Blue Willow teapots!
Here’s the story behind the quilts. As you’ll see, Reeze’s mother and mine shared an affinity for Blue […]
Mar
1
My show and tell today is my new book, Teapots 2 to Appliqué!
Today is the official publication date, but I actually had the book in time for last weekend’s quilt show put on by my home guild. It’s so much fun having a new book and having all of my quilter friends come by to […]
Jan
15
Teapots for generosity
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One of the members of my guild, Kathy, told me that her small quilt group (minus one) had gotten together and made something in secret for the remaining member. Jean, the unsuspecting recipient, loved tea and teapots, so they had all made a block from Teapots to Appliqué and had put them together into a […]
Oct
17
Counterpoint teapots
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My appliqué friend Janet Locey made a sample for my Teapots to Appliqué book using the “counterpoint” technique of reversing the values in alternating blocks.
Janet works only by machine and is masterful at a couple of different machine appliqué techniques. This one was done using freezer paper templates and glue stick to turn the […]
Sep
21
A teatime vignette
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Jean Post, one of my appliqué friends here in Santa Cruz, made this delightful scene using elements from Teapots to Appliqué. I call it “Afternoon at the Cabin,” because to me it looks like a lazy afternoon at a cabin by a lake, at just about teatime. The log cabin quilt on the wall is […]
Jul
28
Thoughts on appliqué methods
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Sometimes I make sample blocks of my designs for quilt shops to display. When I make these samples, I’m torn over what method of appliqué to use. I don’t want quilters to think they must appliqué my designs by hand, nor do I want dedicated hand appliquérs to be dissuaded at the sight of fusible […]
Jun
19
Sunday Tea
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Last year, I was contacted by a shop owner needing an emergency supply of Teapots to Appliqué. Since the books weren’t immediately available from the distributor, she emailed asking if I could ship some in time for an event they were having that weekend.
It turned to be very easy to accomplish, since the shop, […]
May
15
Tea Time For Good Friends
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Over the weekend I finally had the pleasure of seeing a quilt that I had been anticipating for a long time.
Denise Martin, a member of my guild and also of the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association, had been keeping me posted on a Round Robin project that she was participating in. Denise had used […]
Apr
17
Vivian Slater of Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada wrote to say that when her mother requested a little wallhanging for the entrance to her apartment in a senior’s complex, Vivian took the opportunity to try a few different things that were new to her.
And so it was that invisible machine appliqué, Ricky Tims’ Caveman Quilting, […]