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Check out this video on YouTube for more! Happy Quilting! Teri

After adding this image to the post, and tapped play on Pandora one of my favorite songs started playing. As the words spill from my brain to fingers breaking the silence of this last season the desire fills my being to write more, quilt again. Winter is by far not my favorite season, the sky… Continue reading When the Silence Takes Hold

UPDATE Katie Callow is the winner of the digital copy of Stumpwork Embroidery! Congratulations. Stumpwork Embroidery & Thread Painting: Stitch 3-D Nature MotifsMegan ZaniewskiInstagramStash BooksBook $26.96e-b00k $21.99160 pages There are times in life when a book asks you to take a second look at a technique, viewing from a different vantage point and singing aha!… Continue reading The Book Report Blog Style: Stumpwork Embroidery Megan Zaniewski

Royal Icing CookiesMorgan BeckC&T Publishing/Stash BooksISBN 9781644033272Softcover $25.95E-book $20.99176 pages Okay quilters here’s the book you didn’t know you need and you can add it to your Christmas wish list. After watching the video come on back for a chance to win an e-book by letting me know what is your favorite pen or pencil,… Continue reading The Book Report: Royal Icing Cookies

My long time friend and and quilter Jules mentioned the level of quiet is unusual so here I am poking my head up from what seems like a long winter, except it’s summer, and 100+ degree days make us hibernate just like below 30 degree days did when living in New York. The beauty is… Continue reading When all is Quiet on the Quilting Front

Get ready for pure summertime fun! Piecing Palooza is a live, virtual event on June 29th for learning quilt piecing techniques and skills taught by expert instructors. Save your spot today for a day of playful piecing, exciting giveaways, and inspiration to fuel all your future projects. This. This is going to be a whole… Continue reading Piecing Palooza

A couple of months ago Shari Leid’s publisher, Capucia Publishing reached out for me to review Shari’s books: The 50/50 Friendship Flow, Make Your Mess Your Message, and Ask Yourself This. My book report is complete. One of the things I love about these books is the engaging, interactive style. Shari set’s about meeting with… Continue reading the Book Report

Good morning Good friends! It is a quilting day for sure! I hosted an impromptu Instagram Live that I’m sharing here with you. Below this I’m also adding the information for the Quilters Color Mixer on Creative Spark. The Quilters Color Mixer is Thursday March 30 beginning at 9 am Pacific, 10 Mountain, 11 Central,… Continue reading Invitation

To say I was eager to jump into the hands of the mail delivery person would be an understatement. The first time I traveled it was freezing cold. This time the temps like a beautiful spring evening, you know where you might need a light sweater. We didn’t head right for the post office this… Continue reading The Adventures of Brownwyn E part 2

Brownwyn is off on one of her adventures, and is taking over the blog while traveling. She’s asked me not to reveal where she’s going at this moment, mentioning this is something of a surprise and she likes to surprise quilterly friends. When I brought her to the magical transportation outlet, also known as the… Continue reading The Adventures of Brownwyn E

Advent always feels like the beginning of the new year for me and as such for the weeks of November I’m giving consideration to and choosing the next word of the year #woty . This choosing comes on the heels of some deep thinking about the current word of the year and how I’ve been… Continue reading 2023 Word of the Year

Happy Wednesday Friends! I posted this on one of the social media channels yesterday: Musings over coffee:Quilting is a gift filled with promise, hope, simplicity, complexity, beauty, hot messness. Each one of us gets to show the sublime uniqueness of our self, it is sometimes incredibly vulnerable and sometimes guarded like a castle surrounded by… Continue reading Coming Soon!

I’m excited to share with you a new feature on YouTube, a co-venture with Debby Brown, The Book Report. <—– click here to go watch the video. In this episode we talk about: Sew Cute Baby Animals, Mary HertelThe Big Book of Little Sparks, Carrie Bloomston Love Fat Quarter Quilts Quilters Color Wheel Carry-All Quilters… Continue reading The Book Report

I decided on a whim to go to a local quilt show. My very first ever quilt show. I mean how exciting is this? A Quilt Show! What would happen? What would I see? Did you know they are having a block contest? And it’s a block I can make this morning before I go,… Continue reading Did I ever tell you about the time?

On a completely unrelated note it was both a good hair day and wow do I have humidity hair. Humidity hair in Texas, it’s a thing. Bob Ruggiero asked me about it in this interview: I’m teaching at Quilt Festival in Salt Lake City. Follow this link to all classes, search for my name, and… Continue reading Quilt Festival Salt Lake City Here I Come

Hey! Happy Thursday to you. I am happy to present you with this conversation with Brint Fanizza of Famore Cutlery. I have long admired Brint for his generosity and kindness, for his ability to hear ideas and connect people with people and then connect them with others who would work well with them. In this… Continue reading Quilted Features: Brint Fanizza Famore Cutlery

This week I’m starting with a couple of Thank you notes: Sharlene Rodewald & Lori Baker Heartland Quilt Guild Thank you both so much for your generosity, kindness and thank you to all the guild members who took the class. I enjoyed our time together, especially at the restaurant!Bonnie, Gale & Linda Nitzen Flying Geese… Continue reading Reminders

While I did work one day I spent most of last week (May 23 to 27) on vacation. We had special company visiting us. We visited a couple of quilt shops, more on those in another post, The Alamo, Magnolia, and The Texas Quilt Museum. There are three exhibits right now: The winners from Fall… Continue reading Vacation & The Texas Quilt Museum

Twist! A few years ago I hosted a quilted block of the month and now I’ve started with the thread of the week or month depending on what’s going in my immediate world. As you know I love thread, how it holds things together and how it dances over the surface of a quilt. Sometimes… Continue reading Thread of the Week

Cultivate: Further: Encourage.Seek the society of; make friends withto improve by labor, care or study. Most words have more than one meaning, or connotation and often it takes a little time to define, understand in context, and grow in the use and definition of that word. Often this is an incorporating of the definitions and… Continue reading Cultivate