June, 2015: We had a great Memorial Day weekend up in Northern California with my sister and my cousin. We call ourselves the Twisted Sisters Log Cabin Quilters. So fitting on so many levels. We get together several times a year to make log cabin quilts together and on Memorial Day we make red white and blue patriotic quilts to give to our veterans to thank them for their service and to help them with their life. It is really fun and we do it to honor my Cousin Holly’s husband who was a Navy Seal and passed away three years ago. His Birthday is on Memorial Day weekend so several honors there.

We started on Friday night and ended Tuesday morning when we delivered 7 totally completed quilts from cutting to binding!! To the Veterans office at College of the Redwoods. We even got to gift one of them to the vet who works in the office. He was pleased and we were proud.

Here is a picture of the three twisted sisters with our 7 patriotic quilts.
In June I have new classes started for MY on line courses. Color Composition and Design starting June 25th and Working in a series starting June 18th. For more information go to the on line classes pull down tab and sign up it is educational creative and fun. Join us!

I am also going to be in two on line video classes with I Quilt. I created one video on color and another on my new class Artful Log Cabins. In order not to miss either of my classes or any of the other wonderful classes they have to offer go to www.Iquilt.com and register with your email and they will send you notice of when things are starting. They have a really great line up of educational fun programs for you.

Alegre retreat was held in April and it was a huge success. We are starting to take sign-ups for next year when we will have Nancy Crow teaching a 7 day class and Rosalie Dace, Cynthia Corbin, Gregory Case and myself teaching 5 days. We are over half full at this time. To find out more about Alegre Retreat go to the web site www.alegreretreat.com and to www.gatewaycanyons.com to learn more about it. Then think about joining us as it is a really grand time. There are two YEA scholarships available for those who want to attend that will be under 30 years of age at the start of the retreat which is April 18th. There is one General Scholarship for any age. The deadline to have your information in is October 15th.

I am off to teach my Artful Log Cabin class in Greenville NY at the Hudson River Valley Workshops. One of my favorite places to teach!! So fun fun fun!!
Then I come home and on the 25th we have our family reunion and everyone is coming to Santa Fe. So very much fun will be had by all.
In between all of that I am hoping to work on my third piece in my Graffiti series
I hope you have a happy and creative summer.

love and hugs
katiepm

April, 2015: April is a great month! I turned 60 on the 8th and had a real Aries birthday shooting the two new videos for on line classes for I Quilt that will air sometime in May or June. Check back and I will have a link if you would like to sign up. We had a fun shoot and put together the course “Color Theory for Quilters” and “Artful log cabins”

April 19th is the start of the 2015 Alegre Retreat! I am so excited. We have a full house and great teachers. For more about Alegre Retreat go to the web site at www.alegreretreat.com. We are getting ready to put the 2016 information up at the end of the month. Also “Like” Alegre Retreat on Facebook  and see what a great time we are having as I will be posting daily from the best pics of the day.

Teachers for this year are Jane Dunnewold, Linda Colsh, Joe Cunningham and myself. 2016 teachers will be Nancy Crow, Rosalie Dace, Cynthia Corbin, Gregory Case and myself.

I hope you have a creative Spring
Katiepm

March, 2015: March has come in like a Lion with lots of snow and cold weather. I taught my new Artful Log Cabin class at Santa Fe Quilting on the two most snowy days in a long time but the quilters got through and we had a wonderful time. I love teaching the artful log cabin class everyone’s piece always turns out great! See pictures of mine in my January post.

Still working on selling my house, staging the guest house now then a trip to the dump and all should be in order for the big crowds that will come house hunting soon!! Then we will be off to California to be close to family and friends. We will miss our family and friends here in Santa Fe but we have several good excuses to come and visit this wonderful place.

I am also preparing to shoot to video on line courses for American Quilters Society. I am very excited about that we are doing two classes. One is Color Theory and the other is Artful Log Cabins. Lots of prep work but it is also fun playing with all of the fabrics and designs that we will be showing. Not sure of the start up date yet, we are shooting the first of April, check back and I will post the particulars.

I have a new on line course that I run myself on working in a series. We are doing the very first one, I have 18 students and they are all creating wonderful one of a kind series. Both of the one line course that I run will be starting again in June. Color and Composition and Design and Working in a series. If you think you might be interested in either course send me an email and I will add you to the list to send out a reminder when they will start. Hope you are keeping warm and dry.

love and hugs
katiepm

Ps

Dear Quilting Friend:

Big news here! In honor of International Quilting Weekend, March 20-22, 2015, The Quilt Show (www.thequiltshow.com), the web TV show hosted by Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, will open all of its shows from the first nine series shows 100-1513 for the entire weekend. This means that, for three special days, everyone will have the chance to view over 200 shows, featuring some of the quilting world’s leading artists, for FREE.
This year’s sponsors are contributing over $5000 in prizes, including the Grand Prize, a BERNINA 550 QE. Other prizes you have a chance to win are:
Innova Have your quilt professionally quilted ($500 value)
Superior Threads five $100 gift certificates
RJR Fabrics a Delicious Selection of RJR Fabrics
AccuQuilt GO! Big Electric Fabric Cutter
Missouri Star Quilt Company $500 in Quilter’s Cash plus signed copies of Volume 1 of Block Magazine and Man Sewing Swag

As you may already know, I appeared as the featured artist on TQS in show 906. If you didn’t have the opportunity to see this show the first time around, now you’ll have the chance to see it and so many other terrific shows at no cost in this unprecedented three-day offer.

I hope that you’ll share this information with all of your quilting friends. It’s a fantastic opportunity to enjoy three days of learning and fun without leaving your home all for free.
Enjoy the shows, and thanks for helping to spread the word!

Link to TQS website  http://thequiltshow.com/international-quilting-weekend