Quilt Layout Designs - Designed by My Husband!

I’ve been traveling, teaching, and working on 20+++ quilts this past year — shows, exhibits, and so much inspiration (even from last year’s Quilt Cruise to Mexico 🌊).

This week he timidly told me — for the second time — he didn’t like something I added.

The lettering. On my Curved Log Cabin.

The fabric was already brilliant. The movement spoke for itself — side to side, top to bottom. It didn’t need words.  So I removed the letters and sent her off to my long-arm quilter — free to breathe.

Next quilt adventure is below... --- my NE 63 Street Quilter Guild (STQG) gathered as 20 women making 20 blocks of the International Queen Block.   Colors... background and patterns were varied!

Here's my first layout.

This is the re-make!

Hubby said to re-space out the heavy weight of black fabric on queens along the bottom portion.  

OK..... okkkkkkkkk..... aaaahhh    hmnnnnnn

Better layout.... by a QUILTER"S HAPPY HUSBAND

Thanks - Dude

 

An Invitation to Join A Guild

 

As a Quilter – I am a Maker.  I believe I am making things matter.  It happens in a smile, or conversation – a comforting fleeting moment of meaning that we must nurture in others, if we are to have our friends catch fire and make an impact in our world. 

Did you know that sparks become flames.  And the flickering light of a fire can be so constructive, warm and calming. Just this simple meeting with others proves to be a really big part of the fun that quilting can bring into our lives.   I have to say that I’ve met some of the finest people ‘around the quilting frame.’

It is the social aspect of meeting with other people who have similar interests.  This is also one of the ways this art of quilting has been passed from generation to generation.

As an organized unit, the Scissor Tales Quilt Guilt (STQG) plans to organize trips, organize quilt shows, invite speakers for trunk shows, make things together for community charity, and promote improvement on various quilting techniques through workshops, as well as encouraging members to show their quilts. To me – and to anyone else who has caught ‘quilting fever’, guilds are indispensable.  I strongly encourage quilters either join a guild -- one that is local to them, or (as I did) even start one of your own where none exist.

FACES ~ A New Way to Love Your Creative Vibe

Your inner being is LOVE- it’s a natural urging from birth.   Your inner being is all CREATIVE.  Both longings come with a mindset… that is…a choice we make again and again—to stay open, to be curious, to reach out others in many small and big ways every day. Love and Creativity looks different for each of us, but we recognize its presence all the same. 

DISCOVERY: New Quild Friends in my City

 Little did I know back in September 2022 that my dream of setting up a GUILD....   The Scissor Tales Quilt Guild in the NE quadrant of Oklahoma City, Ok.........  I'm meeting a great group of lady-friends!