Blog
We're on tour again, and if you'd like to hear about our travels, I'd recommend you check out the blog! I generally write a lot more when we're on the road - about where we've been, the people we've met, the birds we saw, etc, etc. Also where the best quilt shops are in the area! Pictures of my classes, too. www.singingquilter.wordpress.com.
New Pattern
Due to popular demand, I am now offering "Hot and Cold" as a pattern. Here's a picture of this spectacular wall hanging.
Singing Quilter Songbook
A songbook featuring 68 songs from all my quilting CDs is now available. It includes all the stories and photographs, plus snippets from things people have told me over the years, and a few patterns, hints and trivia. For musicians, all the sheet music, including guitar chords will be there too. The 150 page book was designed by Paul Mills, who you might remember has produced the last 4 quilting CDs. If your are a fan, this is a vital addition to your collection.
Find out more information
here.
Quilting Cruise!
What a great 10 days we spent in the Caribbean on Holland America' Noordam! We had a bunch of happy quilters who have now returned home with their projects, suntans, and some great memories. Our new cruise coordinators, John and Margaret Rumsby, were very helpful and we are working on Margaret to take up quilting for the next time. To get in touch with them, email jrumsby@cruiseshipcenters.com or call him TOLL FREE at 1-866-477-4898 for information about our next cruise.
There is still time to influence where we'll go next. Do you want to go to Alaska? Or Mexico? or Europe? or New York? Get your votes in soon, and we'll see what we can do about organizing it.
To see some pictures from previous
cruises, visit this site:
http://caribbeanquiltcruise2012.weebly.com/index.html
Maybe next time, you can join us!
Stitched
Jena Moreno has put together a wonderful documentary about 3 art quilters and their preparations for Houston Quilt Festival. The three people profiled are: Caryl Bryer Fallert, Hollis Chatelain, and Randall Cook. It has just received a wonderful review from Quilting Arts magazine. Two of my songs were used as part of the film. At the Houston Festival in November (2011) I attended a screening of the film and got to hobnob with the stars!!!
That's me in the middle: with Jena, her husband (and
cameraman Tom),
Caryl Bryer Fallert, Hollis Chatelain and Randall Cook.
http://www.stitchedfilm.com/
New CD "Little Crazy Quilt"
14 songs, including one about knitting, 2 from Cathy's pre-quilting days, a song from the movie Perils of Pauline, and one from - wait for it - Patti Page!!!! For those of you who have been waiting patiently for word of another quilting CD, the wait is over! It's all finished, it's out and it's getting rave reviews!
If you're interested in how we did the recording, I blogged about it in August of 2010 at http://www.singingquilter.wordpress.com. I wrote about how we recorded the CD, some of my collaborators, and hopefully you'll be as excited as I am about this new project. I'm delighted with how it turned out, and I'm hoping you will be too. Details are here.
YouTube videos
NEW VIDEO! We sang at Victoria's "Fibrations" festival in
August 2011, and this is the video report from the Times Colonist newspaper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYF2aaZR1lQ&feature=player_embedded
The music video of "100 Ways to Hide Your Stash" was
made by Eleanor Burns from "Quilt in a Day" and it's hilarious!
Over 70,000 views!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKiiOH5oJfs
My friend Mavis Rosbach from Quiltbird Studio has posted a video of my song "You Can Quilt That Out", pictures provided by her.
It's hilarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzoL7ddTEnA
You can also see me singing "Why Don't You Have Plain White?" from the show "Great Canadian Shop Hop" on YouTube
Classes
Here's a picture of my Mock Mola Appliqué class at the Houston Quilt Festival in November 2011. It was a great way to finish off the week.
I'm offering a new handwork class in Hand Mola (reverse appliqué), which is quite different from the Mock Mola class I've been offering for the last couple of years.
I've been
really enjoying teaching classes as we travel, and am always looking for
new opportunities. In addition to this new class, I teach two other
hand-work classes: "Slow and Steady Turtle" using freezer paper
appliqué in THREE different ways; and "Hexagons Out of the Garden" using
QuiltPatis. "Mock Mola: Machine Reverse Appliqué", is hugely popular. For more
information, check out Classes.
I've received some photographs from students who took my "Slow and Steady
Turtle" class. They finished it!!! You can see what they've made
here. On the same
page, there are lots of pictures of students' work from the
Reverse Appliqué
classes I've been teaching. They are turning out some wonderful pieces!
I'm in a Quilting Book
Open Your Heart with Quilting is a book by Kelly M. Smith, and it's chock full of great stories about quilters (including me, under the title "Unusual Quilting-Related Careers"!!). Kelly has interviewed lots of quilters and describes her own journey to quilting and spirituality through quilting. The subtitle of the book is "Mastering Life through Love of the Patches". It's available through www.amazon.com. I'd recommend it! Kelly's blog is at www.redheadedquilter.com.
You can find me on Facebook. I have a "fan" page there now, and you can join to get the absolutely most up to date news on our travels and adventures. Here's what it looks like: