It’s time for another entry in my Finish Line series of blog posts. This week I feature just one student, Margaret Jessop of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I first met Margaret in Canmore, Alberta, years ago when I was teaching there at a shop called The Sugar Pine Company. She also has taken classes from me in Kalispell, Montana (at the Quilt Gallery) and we recently renewed our acquaintance in Calgary a few weeks ago when I taught a private class there.
At the end of February I returned to Calgary to teach a fabric collage class. Previously, over the course of a few years, I had taught at quilting seminars sponsored by the Sugar Pine Company quilt shop in nearby Canmore—the last being eight years ago. That year sticks in my mind since it was the year of the Vancouver Winter Olympics and this year the Winter Olympics were on again—though not in Canada. One day, I hope to visit the Calgary area when it’s not below freezing.
Some things that spread are bad. Like the flu. But some things that spread are good. For example, when one person likes something and shares it with a friend. That’s how the … Read More
For the past couple months I’ve been running a trial version of my online fabric collage class—enrollment of which ended last November. Thirty-eight of my $10 and $20 Patreon supporters signed up … Read More
In the unscheduled blog post I sent out two days ago, I warned you that we were in the middle of a blizzard and could very possibly lose power—and our internet—delaying this … Read More
As promised last week, here’s a second installment of finished student quilts along with their in-progress photos (when available) from the classes they were begun in. In this batch, the … Read More
At almost every teaching stop of mine this year at least one or more past students came up to me to tell me about the quilt they started in a class and … Read More
My last teaching of the year was at a location that I also traveled to in April of this year—Woodland Ridge Retreat in Downsville, Wisconsin. In April’s post I shared how owner, Chris … Read More
This was my second year of teaching at Art Quilt Tahoe (AQT) in beautiful Zephyr Cove, Nevada, though I suspect that for my student Gail Dunning (above) it was but … Read More
First-timer Mary Cannizzaro (above) traveled to Maine with her husband Joe (also above), for my third and final fall quilting retreat here in my home state of Maine. Just as … Read More