January, 2015: Happy New Year to all. 2014 was a very good year and I am looking forward to a great 2015. I will be doing lots of traveling and teaching which I love to do and lots of time in my studio which I love even more. I am developing a new class called Artful log cabins where you recreate a photograph with log cabin blocks. I love creating art quilts and I love making log cabin quilts so this puts the two together.

Here are three examples of artful log cabins.

 

I am already scheduled to teach it 4 times in 2015. February in Santa Fe at Santa Fe quilting, June in Greenville New York at the Hudson River Valley Art Workshops, October in Paducah Kentucky at the quilt museum and Houston Texas at the Quilt Show. See my itinerary for more information.

My online course are going great! I have three starting in January and there are still spaces left, so let me know if you want to join us. Color, Composition and Design. 8 lessons, two weeks to create a quilt to answer the parameters in your own style then send an image to me for a critique. I am just starting a new online course on working in a series!! Very excited about that. It will be 5 assignments with three weeks to finish each step in the series. For more information go to teaching and pull down for online courses.

My Alegre Retreat which I run in Gateway Colorado is filling nicely and I am looking forward to teaching along side of some great artists, Joe Cunningham, Jane Dunnewold and Linda Colsh. For more information about Alegre Retreat the Art Quilters Getaway go to www.alegreretreat.com.

So many inspirations to get the creative juices flowing strong for 2015.
love kaitepm

Drcember, 2014: November was a great month. I taught at Art Quilt Tahoe which was great as always. Lots of beautiful clean air, early morning walks, great students and lots of after hours fun. Thanksgiving was marvelous, a trip to northern California to spend the day with family and go house hunting! Even found a great place, now just have to sell my home here in Santa Fe.

I am starting my on line course, Color, Composition and design in January.

If you would like to join me for this fun and educational course for 8 lessons on formal art considerations go to teaching tab and sign up.

Looking forward to the month of December working in my studio, making a quilt for my cousin to cover her with love during her chemo treatments, two quilts lined up for my development of my new “Artful Log Cabins” class, too much fun, and working on a new big quilt based on my acrylic paintings.

Busy Busy but the very best kind of Busy.

Have a safe and Merry Christmas

love
kaitepm

November, 2014: I have returned from what seemed like a marathon teaching schedule. Houston Quilt Festival was super.

I got to visit with my two best quilting friends Libby Lehman and Yvonne Porcella along with a ton of others. My classes were full and fun and the food was fantastic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a booth for Alegre Retreat and my best girlfriend Randalyn Perkins came to help me with the booth when I was in class, Maureen Hendricks was there too, she is the hostess of the Alegre Retreat. www.alegreretreat.com
Then directly from Houston to Art Quilt Tahoe which is in the most beautiful location right on the lake.

Great class, small but powerful and we had a great time.
Each morning was fill with an early morning walk with Sue Benner and others who would brave the cold early morning.

 

Now home for the winter season. I give a two day class on a new subject – Artfull log cabins- at the Santa Fe Quilt shop and that should be good. Then Thanksgiving in Northern California. We are going house hunting!! Going to move back to my home town of Eureka California. I am so excited. So if you know of anyone who would like to live in Santa Fe I have a beautiful home for sale complete with the most wonderful studio and a huge shop for a mechanic or a sculptor. 11 acres of New Mexico land with dramatic views. So now I am working on staging my home and packing up.

I am having a sale of all of my quilts! so go to the quilts for sale page and take 40% off the prices you see there.

So now to a few months of being home and enjoying my studio and my paint studio.

Happy Thanksgiving
love katiepm