The Curved Piecing class @ the Quilt Museum is a go for next Saturday, 10/14. There’s still a couple of seats left if you’re interested and can make it to Carrollton by 10 a.m.

I finally got invited to join a bee group for my quilt guild! 🙂 I’ll have to miss the organizational meeting due to my part-time job on Mondays. Hopefully, the group will select a date/time to meet that’s doesn’t conflict with the job or Sadie’s monthly therapy dog visits. What about my Friday sewing group? New management at the library where we meet has advised that there will be big changes coming for groups wanting to meet at the library in 2024. Thank goodness for the senior center right up the road! I’ll gladly pay $5 month to join to be able to use the facilities.

Reminder: The Georgia Celebrates Quilts Show is coming in June 2024. If you plan to enter a quilt in the show, now’s the time to get busy so you can meet the quilt jurying deadline. Encourage any young stitchers in your life to make a 16″ block for the Block Party exhibit and earn a free admission ticket to the show.

Don’t know about you, but the cost of everything has gone up so much that I’m having to be much more selective about the events I attend. This includes quilt retreats, shows and seminars.

My main goal for 2024 quilty travel is to attend events in places I’ve never been before. Prioritizing my quilty travel list was hard. I have 5 possible destinations on the list – mostly regional with one biggie trip in the mix.

The only booked event so far is a trip to QuiltCon in Raleigh, NC next February. I’ve purchased my tickets and reserved my hotel room. Excited to meet up with some quilty peeps I haven’t seen in a while!

The rest of 2024 quilty travel is still TBD. Rest of 2024 travel plans will be determined by whether not I attend the Mackinac Island Quilting Arts Seminar next May, in Mackinac Island, Michigan. Cost and registration details are supposed to drop any day now, so I’ve been checking the FB site frequently. Who knows, hubs may want to tag along. This is a bucket list destination for both of us.

Should the Mackinac Island trip not materialize, I have plenty more options on my list, plus any other offerings I might learn about along the way.

Yours truly will be teaching this class on Saturday, October 14, 2023 from 10:00 a.m. – noon at the Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum in Carrollton.

We’ll be using the pattern Memi’s Lemons by Fran Gulick of Cotton + Joy to create our table runner. Class fee is $50.00 and a printed copy of the pattern (which includes templates) is included with the class. A supply list and registration details may be found here.

This class is for confident beginners and up. Skill levels and sewing speed vary widely; however, students should be able to complete 1-2 lemon blocks during class.

Curved piecing isn’t difficult with a few helpful tips and a little practice.

Come conquer your curved piecing fears once and for all!

Fabrics used in table runner pictured are from the designer’s Daybreak collection, background is Confetti Cottons in Riley White and binding/backing are a discontinued Liberty print from my stash. Machine quilted by me using Glide 40 wt. thread in Cream.