I had the pleasure of meeting Phyllis Dobbs at Spring Market. She’s as exciting in real life as her fabulous designs. Here’s a picture of her and I, and you can see a glimpse of us in this video. Phyllis has designed this cute little quilted tote bag using her latest fabric line, Its a [...]

If you look around 40 seconds in, you’ll see me and Phyllis Dobbs, followed by a short wave by from Judy Laquidara. Video taken by Alex Veronelli of Aurifil. (Click into the blog post to see the video, they don’t show up on the home page of this site.)

Geta Grama’s Shadow Trapunto quilt at Spring Market and announcing her new patterns for sale.

After I left Spring Market and Pittsburgh behind, I travelled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was a gorgeous trip, in perfect weather. Route PA30 is quite mountainous and an exciting experience for me, as it’s pretty flat here in Ontario by comparison. My ears kept popping, just like they do in an airplane. I finally found [...]

Enter this week’s Friday Give-Away for your chance to win 8″ fabric shears donated by the Simplicity Creative Group.

At Spring Market, I collected business cards for a contest drawing. Congratulations to Janine from Tonic Living in Toronto, Ontario for winning two months of free advertise on the Quilting Gallery web site. Check out the gorgeous fabrics available on her site:

The quilts I created for the Quilt Shop Locator booth at Spring Market.

Enter the $10,000 Dream Sewing Room Makeover contest.

I returned home to Canada late last night. An uneventful drive home from Lancaster. I stopped at another quilt shop on the way home, and the GPS took me through winding roads and mountains to get me to the highway. It was gorgeous even though I was getting a little frustrated wanting to reach the [...]

Congratulations to LizzieB Cre8ive as they won the Creativity best booth award at Spring Market for the second show in a row (which has never happened before). Here are some photos from their wonderful Whimsyland booth. Here are the other winners: Pittsburgh Spring Quilt Market Best Booth Awards I’m sad to say goodbye to lovely [...]

Pittsburgh is absolutely gorgeous! If you ever get a chance to drive here, I highly recommend it (probably not in the winter though). There are rivers, huge hills (are they mountains??), a tunnel and gorgeous bridges everywhere. It has been very fun filled days of Spring Market so far. Today is the second day of [...]

Check out the gorgeous hats I made for Judy and I to wear at Market. All they need is a little bit of ribbon added so they can be tied under our chin. I’m sure we’ll be a great hit. Ok seriously, these are candy dishes, made from another of Geta Grama’s fabulous tutorials, Quilted [...]