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Okay, you are probably thinking, "Wow, another post?!"  Well, good things have been happening lately and I want to share my excitement.  It was such a tough beginning of 2014 and I'm grateful that things are going better. Here is the latest.  I was asked to be one of the designers for Quilts and More Scrap Lab along with 2 other designers.  They gave us 42-10" squares of fabric and 1/2 yard solid cream and asked us to come up with a design, so here is mine: Tote This is what Sherri from This & That Patterns made.  What a great little table topper! And the other designer is Amy Sinibaldi of Nana Company.  (nanacompany.typepad.com)  Here is her interpretation of the fabrics. So cute! The images were used with permission from Quilts and More magazine. 2015 Meredith Corporation. All rights reserved. Pick up a copy on the newsstand today!

YEAH!!  It's finally live, my latest class with Craftsy :  Discover Design Playing with Half Square Triangles .   You are probably wondering, what, where, when?  Well, one of the things about classes for Craftsy is that they ask you to keep everything quiet until the launch date.  So, now I can talk about it and I'm so excited!   Let's start with how I got to make a second class with Craftsy.  In the summer, I was contacted by June Dudley, the acquisition editor for the Quilting category for Craftsy.  She had recently moved from Quiltmaker and was now looking for new classes for Craftsy.  I proposed the Discover Design Playing with Half Square Triangles .  They accepted it in October, I filmed right before Thanksgiving and now it's live!  Needless to say, October and November was crazy busy getting ready for the class.   Here is some info about the class: Unleash your inner quilt designer with ve...