Mary Lou's FOLK ART FISH CLASS A HIT!

The diningroom on the Zeiderdam Holland ship provided lots of color and laughs as we created folk art fish for fun! Quiltcruises.com created many happy people as we toured the bahamas and quilted....wonderful fun, friends, food and fabric!

What starts out as Chaos is going to be one COOL Quilt! Stay Tuned

Plenty of Light Giver fabrics and fun stash favorites make for an exciting border or quilt! Can't wait to show you what I am working on.....


If you haven't seen the next post please read it is is FUN!
Riddle- What do you call a Middle Aged woman with Hula Hoop?
A Sprinkler.....

Take time to Ponder, think, LOOK, and act (as an artist-it's quite easy really....

The wonderful red and white quilt is made for this month. I am not sure who did this as it was sent to me by a cousin who knew I would love it and I do. How inspiring!

The chicken is by Liz from the Washington State coast-she did a story quilt about canning and this chicken was a part of that quilt.



Everyone who knows me knows I love birds and flowers...one reason is that they are so easy to create in quilts and in simple ways...we all smile with birds and flowers







The sneakers were at Zappos online- I am so hooked on Zappos and usually order 3 or four pair of sneakers to last me a year...I sense my friend wish I had a "good" and "feminine" pair of shoes....I guess I am too old or too lazy....do those ballet shoes make your feet hurt? They look like it. Mel did give me some ballet slippers I love but I don't dance in them or teach in them or run through airports in them....


The photo of the three babes is Mel McFarland, Sandy Thompson and me at Road to California. Lots of fun to be together and enjoy the cow quilts and the beauty of the other lovely things hanging. We all met at Asilomar in the story quilt class and I am hoping YOU will consider taking a story quilt class somewhere to tell the world about YOU for many years to come. What are you leaving as a testiment to your life?

Road to California Great Creativity and Color-Jane Coserelli and her fab jackets and something funny and true!

Thought I would share more photos of what I took at Road to California with you.
Below I also gave you a little thing about manicures to make you smile- it did me as everytime I walk into my place for a pedicure, they say "hello" and then a long sentence or two and then they all laugh.

Below is photos of Jane Coscarelli's jackets -but she wrote "The Tortilla Quilt" which is a wonderful book. She has such style and like me she LOVES color. This red jacket is fabulous in person! NOTE- Jane buys her jackets at the thrift store and then turns them into magic! I don't think I could find something like this where I live....need to find someone who can make a wool coat...if anyone does such a thing these days.







I have always admired Jane Coscarelli's style of quilting with everything she does-wool jackets, Day of the dead, Hispanic images- Here I took some photos of one of her wonderful jackets- you can see above the red one she wore...wonderful.