I’ve admired and hoped one day I’d have Laura Boehnke’s job as pattern tester for
American Patchwork & Quilting.
As I chatted with Giovanna last night I realized I have Laura’s job…just not for American Patchwork & Quilting. I get to test patterns for Benartex. It’s so much fun to realize a dream has come true.
I got a call from my friend neen yesterday…she’s at “A Quilters Gathering” in Nashua, NH looks like “Twilight in the Bronx” received an Honorable Mention in their ‘Excellence in Machine Quilting” category.
In January *will be working out the dates* I will be offering “Let Your Foot Loose – be Fancy & Free” at the quilt cottage in Mamaroneck. The class will be based on “Twilight in the Bronx” and will include some trapunto as well as lots of quilting design. As I chatted with some of my students yesterday they were asking about my quilting style…do I mark the quilt top? do I plan the quilting? How do I get there? I would describe my style and planning method in this way – “short attention span quilting”.
So as I quilted “Twilight” I would change the stitches and the thread color as I moved from space to space. I don’t mind quilting using the same type of thread and quilting stitch over the entire surface of a quilt with quite interesting results…with “Twilight” and other practice type pieces I like to play and see what happens as a result.
The next in this series will be a much bigger quilt. The diamonds will be 60 degrees. I still have to figure out how big the diamonds will grow and where the color will come in. I know I’ll have more of the suns and trapuntoed circles however the rest is a mystery that will unfold over the course of the next few months.
I’m off to quilt and pattern test!
Happy Quilting!
Teri

should be quite a lot of fun! Congratulations Susan on the release of your book and your Best of Show! How cool is that!


















So on Saturday we went to the Octoberfest at Bear Mountain with some good friends. Their anniversary is one week before ours so it was a dual celebration. At some point my sweetie had my camera and took this picture. Many many years ago he was a photographer by trade and still does good work. Some of his photos will be featured here on the blog in this post. I miss the fact that he’s not a photographer at the moment because it’s something he really enjoyed for a long time. He loves his work now and I’m so grateful for that!
While we were waiting on line to get some lunch my sweetie had the camera. Good thing he wore a belt cause that’s where he carried it for me.
So this is the really sweet couple we went with. Well the backs of their heads anyway – my head too. They knew about the zoo across the street so off we went to see what critters resided there. Each one of the animals living there have been injured in some way and have found their way to Bear Mountain Zoo.
The bears really captured my sweeties attention. He kept looking and looking and stretching and trying his best to reach the fence and climb up. His paw was in the air like that for a good couple of minutes while he looked out into the woods adjacent. close up of the same guy I think.







