A Year in Classes

A list maker loves the accounting at years end...

 

Made a journal with Jackie at Paper Crown.

I went to Handmade U in spring 2013.

Made a journal and doodled with Dawn Sokol.

Leather work with Camille McClelland at Handmade U as well.

At My Heart's Fancy fell for Stephanie Ackerman making hearts.

 

Making doodles and stamps.

And this Pouf with Jemellia at Je's Bend.

Oklahoma license plate journal at Paper Arts store.

And made a couple of quilts...

Finished a needlepoint tapestry, ya' know, no big deal...

Online and in my robe I took a couple of the getting Started series with Julie Balzer.

Doodle Camp with Dawn.

30 days of prompts with Dawn for National November Non-stop Journaling Month.

From the master, Mary Ann Moss, the Full Tilt Boogie Journal online.

And Mary's Sewn class of pattern painting...

And so many journals I made.

 

 

 

 

Wow. Nice...

 

G turned 3

Since I am the Mabin and Greyson turned three, I made a quilt for him...

This is my fifth flannel rag quilt to make. This is my own pattern. All have been gifts.

We had a rare opportunity to host the party for this little Texan here in Oklahoma.

Snacks and snakes.

And a cake for this beautiful boy.

To G from me...

1600 Inches with Mrs. Hilfiger

I am so very happy to have gotten back to my machine.  I have been mostly sewing on paper for a long while but my great love is quilting really and I had forgotten just how good it feels.

1600 Inches Quilt by Jemellia



I enrolled in an excellent class at out premier quilt shop Quiltworks, turns out the teacher was my best bird Jemellia.

The class quilt is made with a 'jelly roll' or 1600 inches of two inch wide strips packaged as a roll. I used Rouenneries Deux from French General, but of course.

Let's take a moment and be reverent...

Je was a great teacher, really, she is such an excellent seamstress and whisperer of fabric. and that's not just for the whoopie pies...handmade whoopie pies...

Dear Lord, thank you for my sewing machine, hands and time...

Here is my completed quilt top in the entry.

Oh Spencer, get offa that!

And finally, speaking of naughty boys...April 11 is my beloved father's birthday. What a great dad he was. I love this picture of him (middle) in the Armed Air Forces. He and a couple of buddies about 1941 "half-tight" before their European sorties during WWII.

That optimism is bittersweet.