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This was not my year for QuiltCon acceptances, but I do have one quilt hanging in the upcoming show. Cool Pool is one of the patterns featured in QuiltCon Magazine this year, and you can see it in Nashville at the show!

You can also find me at the show; here’s my schedule. I’d love to meet you, so if you see me roaming the show floor, please stop and say hi (and trade pins)!

Thursday 2:30-3:15 pm: “Traditional Block, Modern Quilt: Designing with Negative Space” lecture

Thursday 4-5 pm: Book signing in the Intown Quilters ...

Here is a list of our upcoming events:

• Kimonomomo Open House Event – Saturday, June 23 in Alameda, CA. 10am-2pm. Click here for location map. 
• Pajaro Quilt Guild Textile Lecture and Trunk Show – Monday, July 9 in Aptos, CA. Click here for more information
• Sashiko Class – Monday, August 13 in San Jose, CA. Contact Betty for more information
• AQS Quilt Week Vendor– August 22-25 in Grand Rapids, MI. Click here for more information.
• Intermediate Sashiko Stitch Classes – September 15 & 16 at Quilt n’ Things in Montrose, CA. Information coming soon. 
• San Francisco School of Needlework & Design Sashiko Talk – Wednesday, September 19 ...

Quick update (because I’m working on four other slow updates from my Japan trip and something needs to get posted, let’s be honest):

Upcoming Sashiko Class:

• Sashiko Specifics – Learning the Stitches Part 1 with Kimonomomo – March 26, The ReCrafting Co, Alameda, CA

Upcoming Quilt Shows:

• East Bay Heritage Quilt Guild – Voices in Cloth – March 17 & 18, Richmond, CA
• Guild of Quilters of Contra Costa County Quilt Show – April 7 & 8, Concord, CA.

Sashiko Subscription Kit:

• The kit for March is a tote bag. No fancy piecing, this one is easy and fun. Color is cherry blossom pink with ...

I’m missing QuiltCon this year, but my quilts won’t be! While I didn’t have anything to enter in the judged show this year, I still have several quilts on display.

Molecular Test, above, will be in the Quilt of the Month display.

Intown Quilters, my LQS in Atlanta, is making the trek out to California and will have my complete line of patterns in booth #624, along with a few of my smaller quilts.

And finally, Zigzag Fade should be in the Modern Quilts Unlimited booth (#105)!

I hope everyone who is going to the show has ...

There was a time when I could semi-hibernate through December and rest up over the winter to prepare for spring shows and events. THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED THIS YEAR. We’re pretty much working full throttle this month, and January looks like more of the same, which is a good thing. Here’s what we have going on. Click on the bold headlines below for more information. 

• Kimonomomo Etsy shop inventory clearance and updates – When? Ongoing as we go through the shop and warehouse. Where? Online, mostly. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to ...

Wow. Ten years. When I started selling online in 2005 I had my own website and an eBay store. Both are gone now, I closed them after starting my Etsy shop. There have been a lot of changes to Etsy–they went corporate awhile back–but some changes have been helpful and we’ve seen my tiny business grow to something exciting and much bigger.

Our Open House will be on Saturday, December 9 in Alameda, CA. Details are on our Facebook Events page and Eventbrite. No need to print a ticket, just show up. All the inventory we can ...

Hello, dear readers. It’s been a while.

• In January & February I traveled Japan. More about that coming soon
• In March we launched our wholesale import business and showed at the San Francisco Quilt Guild Show
• In April I wrote a bunch, then stopped because there was so much more work to do with the wholesale business
• In May we showed at the wholesale Quilt Market in St. Louis, MO
• In June I did a guild lecture and sashiko class at River City Quilt Guild in Sacramento, CA
• In July… I visited my son who is working in Europe!
• In ...

   I'm not sure how many of you know that when I go do my shows I do them alone.  This isn't such a big task when its a small local quilt show but those long distance, week long shows really kick my a**.  Not only physically but mentally.  They become a stark reminder of the loss of my husband and how my life now is one of solitude.  I mention all of this now because back in June I  booked Houston Market and Festival.  I did so with a lot of trepidation.  In our industry this is THE ...

Saturday was the companion class for the Deb Tucker ruler BOM. This month we got the Tucker Trimmer and our class was Solitaire. My partner in crime, Tina, had all of her blocks made before class and came to assemble her quilt. I got 2 blocks made and she got the center of her quilt assembled. The top was done by the end of the night! I, on the other hand, went with these people .... me, my