To be honest, even though I came up with the challenge for the Project QUILTING Retreat weekend, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to make for the challenge. Part of what helped was that my friend Trish was in possession of the coloring books we used to inspire us for the applique […]
Thankful Thursday
I had plans to blog about something else today … but of course I’m not quite prepared. So – I headed over to Quilt Along.net to see what kind of linky parties were happening today. I hadn’t seen Thankful Thursday before and after looking through her post I knew exactly what to post about! I’m […]
Project QUILTING Retreat Weekend Report
We had an incredible time this past weekend at Woodland Ridge Retreat for the first ever Project QUILTING Retreat weekend! It was full of inspiration, talent, quilting, fun, and camaraderie. The challenge was given to the retreat attendees at 1:00pm on Friday, January 16th and they had until 11:00 am on Sunday, January 18th to […]
Josie Tollaksen, The 2015 New School Competition
Today I’m stepping away from a post about Project QUILTING and quilting. Today I want to tell you about the future of the art world – our youth. Josie is such a wonderful young lady. I have known her for over 8 years and she has been a part of my family for that long […]
Finding Quilt Inspiration
The Project QUILTING challenge is posted; it’s time to be inspired! I’m going to share with you my process for finding inspiration and hopefully if you’re stuck now, or in the future you can come back to this and use it to help you. I’ll be using the current Project QUILTING Challenge: Sunrise/Sunset to take […]
Sunrise/Sunset Challenge 2–Project QUILTING
Hi everyone! I’m posting our next challenge from the lovely Woodland Ridge Retreat Center as I’m still at the first ever Project QUILTING Retreat! Be sure to stop by later this week to see what the fabulous ladies created!!!! Every week that you enter a piece for the challenge you are entered into a literal […]
Challenge 2 Prize Post
After getting the advice from a close friend – I’ve decided to make the Project QUILTING challenge posts less cluttered. Which means – on either Saturday or Sunday morning before the challenge you’ll get to see what all of the prizes will be for that week! Let’s check out what’s in store for us for […]
Prize Winners–Tree Challenge
It’s the time you’ve all been waiting for! Let’s see who won the prizes! Viewer’s Choice We’ll start with the Public Vote winner! With 146 votes our Tree Challenge public vote winner is … Lia’s Handmades with her quilt ‘Four Seasons’! Lia will be receiving a10 Small Spool Arizona Collection from April Rhodes of Aurifil […]
Quilt Retreat and a Few Finishes
Yesterday I came up to the Woodland Ridge Retreat Center to prepared for the start of the first ever LIVE Project QUILTING Retreat Challenge weekend! Well – I guess I had a lot prepared before I even left so it didn’t take too long to get ready (and with some help from friends); it was […]
Life Happens
Sometimes life happens and deadlines just aren’t met … even if it’s only by 20 minutes! If you were inspired by a Project QUILTING Challenge – please share it with me anyway! I want to see what you came up with from the inspiration of Project QUILTING and I would love to show your work […]