Freddy moran

“The most vivid day of the year in Sisters” — that’s how one quilt group describes the second Saturday of the year, when the little town of Sisters in Central Oregon is covered in quilts. That’s the day of the … Continue reading →

Even though I have many, many works-in-progress which are waiting for quilting, piecing, finding just the right border fabric, figuring out what comes next in a puzzling design I have created, or s…

They say that Necessity is the Mother of Invention........Is that what they say, I am known to mix up my adages.....I have been quilting for 6 years and 2 months and it has been a journey.....I aspired to be the gifted quilters that my great grandmother, grandmother, mom, aunt and sister were.....within 9 months of beginning to quilt I found myself in therapy....YEP! I wanted to be 'perfect' and was not squaring up my corners, lining up my lines and found myself distraught with the creative…

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I was lucky enough to take a class from the famous artist/quilter, Freddy Moran, Saturday in Sacramento. I invited my friend Natalie to g...

Back in April, I got to take another workshop with Freddy Moran in Mt Vernon, Washington. Freddy, showing one of her latest work...

I was lucky enough to take a class from the famous artist/quilter, Freddy Moran, Saturday in Sacramento. I invited my friend Natalie to go with me, and that made the day even better :) This is the house that Freddy built :) She doesn't measure, at least hardly ever, and she doesn't consider herself a sewer either. Here's my freehand house on the left, along with one of my trees on the right. Freddy says that if something doesn't fit, add some more fabric to make it fit, and the extra fabric…

​ Patty Murphy makes a super quilt with a few tossed in recos from an ombré nut (me!) who can't keep her mouth shut...Yup, this post is about Patty Murphy's Aether Quilt which will dazzle the...

A few weeks ago, my husband and I took the ferry over to Vashon Island so I could visit Island Quilter and he could go to a wine ta...

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