Category Archives: Quilting

Odessa

By lee | June 22, 2010

This past weekend I drove out to Odessa, Washington to give the Value lecture to the Odessa Quilt Club and to teach the Value in Action workshop. I had a wonderful time with my hostess and with the students. But first I have to say what an incredible landscape is out there. The land opens [...]

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Happy Colors

By lee | June 10, 2010

Mom told me a couple of months ago that she wanted a new quilt for her bed. She had seen a picture on this blog of  a quilt I had quilted for Janet R. and said she wanted something like that. This is Janet’s quilt.  Mom is visiting right now for ten days and I [...]

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Burn it Up!

By lee | May 3, 2010

In my last post, I showed a picture of Vivienne’s quilt from the Portlandia show. She used an interesting technique in her quilt and last Thursday she was kind enough to teach a bunch of us how to do it. First of all, you have to use all synthetic fabrics, NO COTTON. That was really [...]

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Portlandia Show

By lee | April 29, 2010

On Friday, April 23rd, the First United Methodist Church held it’s 9th annual fundraiser luncheon for their women and children’s mission. The big draw at the luncheon is the quilt show that opens that day. The theme of the quilt show this year was “Portlandia” which each of the participating quilters interpreted in their own [...]

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Yakima Valley

By lee | April 25, 2010

This past week, I took a quick trip up to Yakima, WA to give a lecture and teach a workshop at the Yakima Valley Quilt Guild. From Portland, the drive is really amazing. You head east through the Columbia River Gorge before turning north into Washington. You drive for 60 miles through some beautiful rolling [...]

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